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MisterP61 -> RE: Should we be able to call a rose, a rose? (1/7/2014 9:50:45 AM)
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ORIGINAL: ResidentSadist
Well, I vote no but for a different reason. The particular twat you are referring to is seeking negative attention. The more you give, the more they are inspied to stay and post. If you completely ignore them, they will go away and seek attention elsewhere.
I was mod at a smaller board, 80k members. It was techy gamers board so IP ban was hard, everyone knew about proxy servers. When we had a twatwaffle post troll bait, all the regulars knew not to respond. The few noobs that did respond got a personal form letter from me telling them if they did respond, I would ban them. They were not allowed to respond to the twatwaffle at all, anywhere, forever, for any reason, even if they said something that wasn;t troll bait. I sent the form letter warnings privately so there was no public attention in the thread.
I did not lock the threads. I wanted the poster to get no attention, not from mods, not from members. After a few posts, the OPs got no replies and sank out of sight quickly. The twats went away.
My personal warnings about banning for feeding on troll bait were serious. I swung the "ban stick" on trolls with no mercy and virtually hung their heads out on poles at the front gate . . . i.e., I had a sticky with names of the people that were banned and why they got banned so that everyone could see we were serious about the TOS.
It was good forum with good community spirit. And like CollarMe, the noobs were always recycling common questions over and over. But we had assistant mods. Everybody likes rank, so we issued an assistant mod rank. They could move threads and view or post on the mods only forums but they didn't have mod ban powers. We had a Ban Request forum in mods forum and they would post the name and reason with link to the post.
The assistant mods were allowed to answer question and they patrolled the forums keeping everyone in check. We (mods) developed a nice set of form replies (in the mod forums) and that was the assistant mods handled a lot of recycled noob questions. The basic info was in the mod reply and then other forum regulars could fill in any variants on the theme with short and simple replies.
Anyway, I feel sorry for the mods here because feeding on troll bait doesn't get you banned. With a membership full of sadists, chest thumping Dom/mes and victim submissives when troll bait hits the water or someone is really begging to be humiliated, it's like a shark feeding frenzy.
RS, I can definitely see Your side of this. I could only imagine what Moderating anything where there is the potential of numerous vagina pastries, would be like. I will agree to disagree, however, My way of seeing it is that if you are going to twatwaffle publicly on the internet, then I should be able to publicly let them know exactly what I think of their twatwafflery. Not to mention I like to have fun with trolls, especially the ones who think they are witty, but couldn't win a battle of said wits, much less the war. Does it egg them on? Yes. But I believe in their free speech, in showing their twue twatwaffleness, and I am an asshole too. May not be a great combination, but it is who I am and I make no qualms about it.
Thanks everyone for your replies. It is pretty much split down the middle on whether or not to allow.
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