- Specter Wolf
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I spend too much time here.. too much time indeed.
I tweet?
Posted by: spartain ken 15
Posted by: Specter Wolf
Posted by: spartain ken 15
Posted by: Zee JollyRoger.
All we're doing here is creating a problem that shouldn't exist.
I couldn't agree more. The ignore feature would create problems like how it was suggested, I have a way to make it reasonable.
Ignore feature:
- If someone breaks the coc, you ignore them, you can ONLY ignore their 1 post, the ignore goes out as a warning to the mods. If you ignore too many people's individual posts in 1 day, you can have your right to ignore people halted for 24 hours.
- If enough people ignore and report someone, a mod will come. The mod can decide to do 2 things, ban the user OR press a button that un-hides that post (one should not be ignored if they didn't do anything wrong).
That is a FAIR, JUST, and REASONABLE use for the ignore feature. It helps people avoid shock site trolls, encourages people to "report" others, and is only used for people who do something wrong.
Fair and just? Outside the courts this concept isn't in play, hell even in court this is concept is a bit skewed. This is life, people are going to ignore you. Once you get that through your hair and quit putting yourself in the middle of all this then maybe you'll see that that it's all pretty harmless.
This idea is to further "self moderation" but it is planned to be used against "annoying users" which does not break the rules. I find the reason people want it is not a good one, not really good enough to make this.
But, if it is used against people who deserve it, great.
I am not trying to "drag myself into it", I am just saying how I feel about this and how I think this will affect me and other users on this site.
but, oh well. Many people here seem to want a way to ban people who do nothing wrong so they can control their "urges" (usually a few bans will help with that, some people obviously need another ban or 2), they might get it. I just hope the forums stay the same to post in. But I prefer if this feature is never made.
The term "self moderate" is, admittedly, misleading. Think of it more along the lines of a customizable content filter where the goal is to improve each user's experience by allowing to view only the content they wish to see. Ideally this would be used to remove flaming, trolls, spam, etc. Which leads to being able to self moderate. But it also allows users to see topics which only interest you while filtering out which don't. Non desirable posts and threads would merely be hidden (collapsed) from view, not completely be removed so that if desired one could venture into "ignored' threads.