Trolls

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Report those posters. I will delete the posts and block the posters.

Really? Why are you going to punish people for calling out trolls? There are a ton on the politics board. It’s always the same trope too.

If OP is constantly being called out as a troll, that seems to be the bigger issue. We should be able to call out posters who don’t post in good faith, not be blocked for it.

The term "troll" is massively misused throughout the website but especially in the Political forum. If someone suspects a poster is a troll, they should report the poster to me and I'll look into it. Filling threads with allegations of "troll" is itself a form of trolling as it disrupts the conversation.

It’s usually them starting the posts. “I was a Dem until….” There must be at least one of these or similar not-in-good-faith posts every week. They are the ones who divert attention from real posts. That is absolutely trollish behavior.

I am not denying that there are trolls. I am simply saying that if you suspect that a poster is a troll, you report them rather than posting an allegation that they are a troll.

[Anonymous]

Damn y'all are being awfully picky about how Jeff moderates his board for people who are using it...for free I might add.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Report those posters. I will delete the posts and block the posters.

Can you also delete the posters who, when someone posts a medical problem like "I have a headache" or "My big toe is turning purple" automatically say "It's probably menopause!"?

Also, every undesirable behavior is not autism. Really.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Damn y'all are being awfully picky about how Jeff moderates his board for people who are using it...for free I might add.

Who pays for posting privileges? Come on.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone noticed that in every single post, someone will call you a troll or ai and tell people not to interact? I'd like answers for my problems and these people are ruining it.

In your case, you actually are a troll. We are in the process of removing many of your threads. I hadn't noticed before, but you actually sock puppeted the first response in this thread. So you are even trolling in this instance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Report those posters. I will delete the posts and block the posters.

Really? Why are you going to punish people for calling out trolls? There are a ton on the politics board. It’s always the same trope too.

If OP is constantly being called out as a troll, that seems to be the bigger issue. We should be able to call out posters who don’t post in good faith, not be blocked for it.

The term "troll" is massively misused throughout the website but especially in the Political forum. If someone suspects a poster is a troll, they should report the poster to me and I'll look into it. Filling threads with allegations of "troll" is itself a form of trolling as it disrupts the conversation.

It’s usually them starting the posts. “I was a Dem until….” There must be at least one of these or similar not-in-good-faith posts every week. They are the ones who divert attention from real posts. That is absolutely trollish behavior.

at least daily before the election

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone noticed that in every single post, someone will call you a troll or ai and tell people not to interact? I'd like answers for my problems and these people are ruining it.

In your case, you actually are a troll. We are in the process of removing many of your threads. I hadn't noticed before, but you actually sock puppeted the first response in this thread. So you are even trolling in this instance.

LOL - Classic!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What if the person is an actual troll?

+1. I don't go on a lot of threads here. But there's a poster on the Prince Andrew thread who has so far admitted twice to trolling. As in "haha, thanks for playing my little game here."

[Anonymous]

And, please spare us the Religion forum troll(s) who posts, every few days, something they think is the "gotcha" that will convert believers into atheists. It's like they found a single subreddit gotcha they think will finally do the trick of causing millions to abandon their faith--but this troll(s) doesn't know enough to understand how shallow and ignorant their points really are, and how easily refuted.

This is not to say there aren't points against religion or faith. But that troll is too dumb and ignorant to make the hard/sophisticated points against belief. And they're too bigoted to engage in good-faith (lol) debate. They've made that forum unreadable.