Is there anything that can be done about this poster?Follow

Rate him down and set your filters to default.

This is the fifth time i have ssen him do something like this, he keeps his rating at 2.2 but consistently gets rated down and anyway, that is going far to far on a community board about a game.

we're looking into it.

I see nothing was done ... other than a slap on the wrist, that is obsurde and sadly makes me re-evaluate the time i spend on this site



Is this really acceptable in a Public Forum ... come on now



Edited, Fri Aug 20 17:38:32 2004 by Nosirrom

Look in forum FAQ in just about every forum for a rough list of rules and etiquette.

At least I think that's where it's located....

I found this there:

I understand light moderation and I agree with that. In my opinion, SmartieKjm's posts exceed even these guidelines.

I found it in my main EQ forum faq at the bottom, under "Anything else I should know"

The nature of the guideline "posts that are pornographic, overly obnoxious" leaves a lot of lattitude and I'm sure that was the intention of "light moderation".

But definitions aside, no forum needs people posting drivel like



Obnoxious:

1. highly objectionable or offensive; odious: obnoxious behavior.
2. annoying or objectionable due to being a showoff or attracting undue attention to oneself


Guideline met?

edit: I just spent 20 minutes in The Asylum and have to conclude that this isn't significantly different than most posts there. Perhaps it just needs to be moved to the proper forum...

It's funny in an odd way. I used to be a regular poster on the original Verant forums. Now we have new SOE forums with extreme censorship. When I moved here from Caster's Realm, I assumed that this was another PG rated forum with more moderation than I preferred, albeit with more interesting people and content. Now I see the difference.

In general you let it go and allow the rating 'system' to bury posts that people can't stomach.

<pausing a moment to consider that>

Each forum has a population of posters that enjoy and expect different things. There are always outliers. Bottom line - rate it down and it disappears. Each forum rates as it desires and each individual majority rules. My only issue with this is that any thread with a frequent sub-default poster becomes impossible to follow; essentially meaningless as a result of the posts lost via using the default filter. Solution, turn off filter. Is that really a solution? I want to read meaningful sequential messages and the default filter prevents that, so I don't use the filter.

I don't have a better solution. I do think it is grounds for a discussion on better ways to censor objectionable speech.

Edited, Fri Aug 20 20:24:07 2004 by Samatman

In most cases the "light moderation" works fine. But with SmartieKJim, he had over 650 posts before I ever noticed him saying anything even closs to trolling. No matter how much we rate him down his rating stays close to constant so he is basically free to troll as much as he wants without having to worry about getting pushed under the filter.