etiquette question
- Thread starter Max
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A troll is a poster who makes posts for the purpose of getting attention. They tend to post inflammatory or incorrect information to 'troll' for lots of replies. The mark of a good troll is subtlety; a troll who knows what he's doing is nearly indistinguishable from a legitimate poster with an unpopular/incorrect opinion. That makes it very difficult to pin them down. The poster in question here probably couldn't define subtlety if you offered him a dictionary. He was just insulting.
Slip, there isn't a problem everything was handled very well by the mods. I was more or less wondering if a warning thread should be posted in extreme cases. The thing about that is it usually fuels the flames of trollery but, in extreme cases that might be better than someone stumbling onto something very bad. More or less I was just looking for opinions. I'm just glad we have some first rate billy goats 
in house!
Chris
in house!Chris
I think slip was being sarcastic after cleaning up the little troll mess?
Either way, "it" is gone
Either way, "it" is gone
Nahh, I didnt get this one. Dale got to try out the new 7 day ban (temp ban) feature. I wanted to try it. 
I did get the last one on a perma-ban though.
I did get the last one on a perma-ban though.
Well, I did do the 7 day ban on Mike714, but, I chnged my mind.
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I gave him the full Monty perma ban.
The best way to handle these people is to do just as you did. Dont post anything refering to the poster. No matter what you post, it will only fuel the fire. We constantly check the boards and we are e-mailed when someone reports a post so we do get notified pretty quickly. I think I banned him only a couple of hours after the last post that he did.
Thanks, and please use the report post function. Its the best way to notify us.
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I gave him the full Monty
perma ban.The best way to handle these people is to do just as you did. Dont post anything refering to the poster. No matter what you post, it will only fuel the fire. We constantly check the boards and we are e-mailed when someone reports a post so we do get notified pretty quickly. I think I banned him only a couple of hours after the last post that he did.
Thanks, and please use the report post function. Its the best way to notify us.
Reefscape said:I gave him the full Monty
That means I can still be the first to try the temp ban!Any volunteers? :mad2
