Ehh....I think I know who you're talking about, but if it's who I think it is, he hasn't been as active as he was for most of the year, so that's an improvement. Plus all the raging trolls are on my ignore list anyway, so I don't tend to read their threads or comments. I've suggested people put these assholes on ignore and not to even peek at their posts, but that didn't seem to catch on and I've even broken my own rule occasionally (though not lately).
There is a rule against trolling, but apparently you-know-who's posts don't rise to that level in the moderators' eyes. And I'm all for freedom of speech on the forum--it's one of the things that attracted me to it in the first place. So I really don't have a problem with whoever you're talking about doing his little rants and whatnot. I don't have to look at them if I don't want to, nor does anyone else. That's what the ignore button is for, no?
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We absolutely are paying the price with our bleeding eyeballs and wasted time trying to read through all that crap. The actual cost depends on how disciplined one can be about their ignore list and not getting down the rabbit troll hole.
The other part of the cost is scaring sane users away with lunatic ramblings. This creates a feedback loop where less sane content encourages more lunatics. I don't know if we can quantify that. It would be nice though if mods could swing that ban hammer more often on obvious shit that I can't link to due to the local rule LOL.
The other part of the cost is scaring sane users away with lunatic ramblings. This creates a feedback loop where less sane content encourages more lunatics. I don't know if we can quantify that. It would be nice though if mods could swing that ban hammer more often on obvious shit that I can't link to due to the local rule LOL.
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Freedom of speech has a cost and are we paying the price for it in this forum?
Let's not bring any specific name/user if you really know who (a person or a group) I am pointing too.
Let's not bring any specific name/user if you really know who (a person or a group) I am pointing too.
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