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re: How is everything going? Is everyone happy?
Posted on 7/29/15 at 3:16 pm to Chicken
Posted on 7/29/15 at 3:16 pm to Chicken
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can you tell me who the worst of the worst is?
Phan comes to mind, along with hawgfanic. The problem, as someone else mentioned, is how easy it is for there to be a ton of alters who keep doing the same crappy stuff.
From my end, and there might be some technical issues on your end I don't know about, having the ability to block the posts of people that are trolls/shitty posters would be the easiest thing.
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Posted on 7/29/15 at 3:18 pm to Chicken
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.sometimes shitty posters are confused as trolls when they are just simply shitty posters.
Wouldnt a shitty poster who does nothing but agitate and disrupt the boards/threads be considered a troll as well?
Posted on 7/29/15 at 3:21 pm to NYCAuburn
I don't think they're mutually exclusive
Posted on 7/29/15 at 3:21 pm to NYCAuburn
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Wouldnt a shitty poster who does nothing but agitate and disrupt the boards/threads be considered a troll as well?
That defines 75% of the people on trant.
Posted on 7/29/15 at 3:21 pm to LanierSpots
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Most of the horrible posters on this board have tons of posts.
True, but it would deter future generations of mindless trolls. And, it wouldn't stop a new poster from posting, just from starting new threads.
Posted on 7/29/15 at 3:27 pm to The Nino
ultimately if the admins had a more visible authority, shitty posters and trolls would be a bit more scared. Right now you cant even tell for sure if someone is banned. Troll threads stay on the board, occasionally are anchored, etc..
Posters dont really see any repercussions and some of the worst have no fear of even a ban, because they are just going to create their 100th alter
Posters dont really see any repercussions and some of the worst have no fear of even a ban, because they are just going to create their 100th alter
Posted on 7/29/15 at 3:29 pm to AUCatfish
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True, but it would deter future generations of mindless trolls. And, it wouldn't stop a new poster from posting, just from starting new threads.
Remember that most of the trolls are alters and know how to build post counts. They would run to the IM threads or game threads and build up post counts to defeat the purpose of the new rule
Post counts are one of the most useless features of message boards for the most part. It typically makes some people feel superior because they have been somewhere longer or spend more time every day there. They really mean nothing.
There are some people on this particular site who have over 50K posts and less than 100 of them are productive posts that add to the discussion.
Too many rules will kill this site.
Posted on 7/29/15 at 3:30 pm to NYCAuburn
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ultimately if the admins had a more visible authority, shitty posters and trolls would be a bit more scared. Right now you cant even tell for sure if someone is banned. Troll threads stay on the board, occasionally are anchored, etc..
This is the correct thinking. If you are going to add more policing/rules. Do it the correct way. Attack the problem at the problem instead of putting in a bunch of meaningless rules that perpetrators will eventually work around
Posted on 7/29/15 at 3:34 pm to Chicken
I'd utilitze the up/down vote as a self-moderation tactic. Posts that reach a certain number of downvotes should automatically be kicked out. How hard would that be to implement?
Posted on 7/29/15 at 3:35 pm to LanierSpots
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Too many rules will kill this site.
Fair point, but the lack of rules, or at least the application of rules, is killing tRant imho. NYC made a good point, if admins were more visible and ban hammered people that were cluttering up the boards, it might make a difference.
Posted on 7/29/15 at 3:35 pm to LanierSpots
Chicken, the best thing to happen was to create the individual school boards.
The Rant is basically a Troll Board which is OK.
Anything you put in, besides constant monitoring will fail.
Maybe allow administrators to move threads to a TROLL BOARD.
The Rant is basically a Troll Board which is OK.
Anything you put in, besides constant monitoring will fail.
Maybe allow administrators to move threads to a TROLL BOARD.
Posted on 7/29/15 at 3:38 pm to AUbagman
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I'd utilitze the up/down vote as a self-moderation tactic. Posts that reach a certain number of downvotes should automatically be kicked out. How hard would that be to implement?
How are you going to use that when anyone can uproot/downvote a post at anytime for any reason. Then you would have to Monitor the people who are uprooting/downvoting.
Any post made by a Alabama poster would immediately be downvoted by every LSU poster.
Sounds like Chicken needs a little more policing by valued people who will make good decisions.
I was a admin for one of the biggest fishing sites on the internet back in the late 90's and early 2000's. They had the same issue. You need a few admins that will make good decisions and let them delete/ban people
Posted on 7/29/15 at 3:39 pm to NYCAuburn
quote:We need Reckonings! (anyone watch/read Wayward Pines?
ultimately if the admins had a more visible authority, shitty posters and trolls would be a bit more scared. Right now you cant even tell for sure if someone is banned.
) Knowing if someone is banned could help serve as a notice to others. A "Banned" status under their profile seems like an easily programmable fix.
Having the Admins that are specifically assigned to tRant post more on tRant would help as well. Ice and SECond (if they are even still our Admins) appearances are few and far between. I think the best solution for monitoring tRant is to have an Admin(s) that actively posts on the SECRant Boards. That way we have Admins that we are familiar with, but more importantly, they are familiar with the posters they are monitoring.
Posted on 7/29/15 at 3:40 pm to AUbagman
quote:I downvoted you
I'd utilitze the up/down vote as a self-moderation tactic. Posts that reach a certain number of downvotes should automatically be kicked out. How hard would that be to implement?
Posted on 7/29/15 at 3:40 pm to AUbagman
Well for one you get people like owlie who get like 20 downvotes no matter what he says. People would abuse that shite so quick
Posted on 7/29/15 at 3:41 pm to LanierSpots
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I was a admin for one of the biggest fishing sites on the internet back in the late 90's and early 2000's. They had the same issue. You need a few admins that will make good decisions and let them delete/ban people
I nominate Lanier as new rant admin
Posted on 7/29/15 at 3:42 pm to LanierSpots
Reasonable threads aren't downvoted. Regardless, when the threshold was reached, the thread could get kicked to an admin for final say.
Posted on 7/29/15 at 3:43 pm to joeyb147
Ok?
Posted on 7/29/15 at 3:43 pm to Chicken
The team boards are the best thing yall have ever done for this site.
The SECr is over run with trolls. It hard to have any kind of conversation there without it turning into a shitshow. Some visible adminning would solve the problem.
The SECr is over run with trolls. It hard to have any kind of conversation there without it turning into a shitshow. Some visible adminning would solve the problem.
Posted on 7/29/15 at 3:44 pm to AUbagman
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Reasonable threads aren't downvoted
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