Lucas88 wrote: âApril 10th, 2023, 11:36 am
PS â On the topic of trolls, maybe we could recognize a category of "HA sanctioned trolls" which would be allowed to operate in light of the comedy that they bring to the forum (some of the trolls are actually pretty funny
) and with the condition that they aren't too disruptive.
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@Pixel--dude
Reading through 5 pages of responses and seeing all this drama, I guess it's obvious enough that those of us who aren't actually out to ruin this forum should probably hold ourselves to a higher standard of civility, as long as we're not actually being censored from discussing particular topics (like on virtually every other site in the 2020s).
But this brings up what I referred to as the "chicken in egg problem" of how if the other obvious trolls are running rampant all around us, those of us who tend to want to step up to the imbroglio are more likely to get engaged with that as a form of sport and start spewing out pugilistic responses and contribute to the chaos... So how to fix that...........?
I don't know if this idea would work, but:
Lucas, when you said "maybe we could recognize a category of "HA sanctioned trolls" which would be allowed to operate in light of the comedy that they bring to the forum" were you thinking of a subforum to banish some of the most obvious trolls to for a temporary period of time after they act up?
(Or in my case, banish someone like me to if/when I misbehave with too many pugilistic comments, but am allowed a 2nd chance if I behave?)
That might be a good idea.
A guy I know who is a good father thinks "time-outs" are the way to go for badly behaved children, LOL.
(I don't know what it's like on the technical side to moderate, so don't know if that's feasible or not to limit other users to specific subforums easily, but just curious.)
For the trolls who are simply here to pollute the forum on purpose because they don't want free speech forums to even be allowed to exist, that might take care of a great deal of the problem, since if they' not allowed to derail all the other discussions, they might just leave............