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Posted by: just another fan
Posted by: stepheng0228
My only idea really is too IP ban people, yes I know moderators do not have power on this site too do so. But if they did, then that would help out these forums a lot from trolls with all there alts.I'm no expert on this subject but here goes: a lot of people here are in college and a lot people in college use the same IP address. If you IP ban one person, you'll be blocking a whole bunch of people on said IP. People with a dynamic address dodge the bullet as well.Banning someone by IP address is like trying to catch a car thief by sitting in one car and hoping he tries to steal it.
The easiest way to approach the problem is not to get rid of disruptive people, but to add worth to accounts; to reward constructive members. The simplest way to do that is to add a significant time delay between creating the account and using the account. Say, a month before you can post in the flood, 3 months or more before you can post threads.
Posted by: just another fan
I thought that was the point where you think you can't persuade the other party regardless of the things you say as they feel both parties they are "right."That's not agreeing to disagree, then, is it? That's coming to the conclusion that your opponent in argument is too stupid or too ill-equipped to properly understand the argument you are presenting.
There is no such thing as "agreeing to disagree". It's a cop out and backpedal of the highest order, when one party no longer wishes to engage in discussion, but still wishes to carry on hearing the sound of their own voice.
Some times I say it when i get simply tired of a discussion, though.Then we end up back at the point several raised, that if you don't have the strength of feeling about the site and your actions and your contributions to the site to defend those things, why did you do them in the first place? Of course, in this situation, it's perfectly acceptable to brush off the argument on the fact is has been done to death a dozen times before, but in general it holds.
[Edited on 07.31.2011 3:16 PM PDT]