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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]I've often wondered if dcum has a core of inflammatory posters that drive the snark and the mommy war threads. Or is the snark and inflammation commonly distributed among all the posters?

Like if all the "anonymous" suddenly turned to usernames, would we see the same tired posters time and time again when threads turned ugly?[/quote]

We have a group of what I would describe as "regular users" that come to the site very frequently. That number is somewhere in the range of 75,000 I believe. There is a much smaller group, probably less than 100 though I don't really know, who are total obsessives. They will post 50-60 messages a day. I have not been able to identify any member of this group who constantly posts inflammatory messages. If I did, I would have engaged in behavioral modification activities. But, many of them post snarky messages from time to time. Because they post so frequently, they are often the first to post in a thread. The first post often sets the tone for a thread. So, if these posters are in their "snarky period", they can be troublesome.

However, the obsessive group still only accounts for a small portion of the snark. What I've found is that perfectly level-headed, helpful, generally nice posters can have a bad day or be particularly touchy about some topic. There are so many of them, they even though few of there posts are problematic, it still amounts to a lot of posts.

When someone is a constant troublemaker, I make them unwelcome pretty quickly.
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I think this is consistent with a study one of the online gaming sites did (per Wired)-- IIRC they found that if you banned everyone who engaged in bad behavior at some point few would be left.[/quote]

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