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XYZ wrote:

Perhaps you should be less arrogant.

but....i fed you points....

oatmeal wrote:

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My issue with that, and I'll acknowledge that limitations of the board might be a factor, is that pruning and or locking does little to discourage trolling.  As of now, the policy of locking does encourage trolling by giving those who troll the ability to close down topics.  Even pruning just encourages the trolls to find out exactly where the line is by constantly probing at it, again with little to discourage it.  Ideally there should be some sort of system to punish trolls for trollish behavior, and I'm not convinced that banning is it.

obtuse wrote:

oatmeal wrote:

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My issue with that, and I'll acknowledge that limitations of the board might be a factor, is that pruning and or locking does little to discourage trolling.  As of now, the policy of locking does encourage trolling by giving those who troll the ability to close down topics.  Even pruning just encourages the trolls to find out exactly where the line is by constantly probing at it, again with little to discourage it.  Ideally there should be some sort of system to punish trolls for trollish behavior, and I'm not convinced that banning is it.

If you can come up with a realistic, viable alternative, then PLEASE tell me what it is.  PLEASE. 

One of the things on the table (for the FAR future, if at all; GUI would have to write it himself and basic board functionality comes first) is a mod that would disallow one poster to continue posting in a given thread. 

Everyone sees the "quote" button and the "report" buttons in every post.  Next to them, mods also see "Edit" and "Delete."  This mod would add another button that, when pressed, disallows continued posting in that thread and only in that thread.

I can see that mod being UNBELIEVABLY useful here in MiniThink.  Elsewhere.... well, that's why it's at the bottom of the to do list, might get rubbed off.

If you've got other suggestions, though... by all means, what are they?

Features like that seem useless with critical features such as PMs, polls, links opening in new windows and others missing.

Last edited by Steyr AUG (2005-02-04 1:35 pm)

Steyr AUG wrote:

Features like that seem useless with critical features such as PMs, polls, links opening in new windows and others missing.

Right, which it's WAY at the bottom of the list.

oatmeal wrote:

Anything that doesn't involve major mods to the board or hella work on the part of the mod in question would be helpful.  But it usually comes down to the fact that there are nearly no other viable options.  Banning, warning, locking the topic, or (when it's restored) splitting out a bunch of posts are pretty much the arsenal we've got to work with.

(If anyone would feel like writing that mod, it might help a lot towards getting it implimented.  I'm absolutely useless for writing BB mods.)

A quick look at the punbb site shows that implementing the delayed posting idea should actually be fairly easy.  There is a variable for each group of posters that determines when they can post again.  It should be very easy to create multiple groups with the only difference being that each group is has a different and longer time between posts.  Then just a page or something to allow mods to move a user across groups.