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Subject: I've ran into a bit of a trolling conundrum, and possibly a fix.

The world is not beautiful: And that, in a way, lends it a sort of beauty.

~Kino's Journey

Say i saw a blatantly obvious troll thread, now the obvious action to take would be to report and move on, but knowing the nature of this site, i know people are bound to post, so instead of reporting and moving on I instead do what a wise forum ninja once told me "inform people of the right course of action".

The problem with the latter method is that by posting i've only bumped the troll's thread, if only there was a way of posting my helpful message without helping said troll.

And then it hit me, 4chan happens to have a feature that does exactly this, if you add the word "sage" to your post on 4chan then the post doesn't bump the thread, but still shows up; All the web team would have to do is take this feature, change the bump denying word from "sage" to "report and move on"(or something similar) and bango! we now have a way to help other forum goers without helping the people we're trying to stop.

[Edited on 04.05.2012 3:55 PM PDT]

  • 04.05.2012 3:55 PM PDT

Sing for me, will ya?

I like it.

  • 04.05.2012 3:58 PM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

Posted by: Song
I like it.

  • 04.05.2012 3:59 PM PDT

>Implying I have a signature

Posting in the thread while sageing won't do anything. I highly doubt there is a single person on the face of the earth that cares that a random anonymous person told them it's a troll thread and that they should avoid it.

While a good suggestion, sage doesn't work on 4chan, and definitely would not work in the flood.

[Edited on 04.05.2012 4:00 PM PDT]

  • 04.05.2012 4:00 PM PDT

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Here's my twitter, in the off-chance you want that too.

Community Joe Interview: defnop552
Bye.

What if The Flood "sage"'s every thread and the forum becomes static?

  • 04.05.2012 6:50 PM PDT

$x='print chr(36),"x=",chr(39),$x,chr(39),";\n",$x; ';
print chr(36),"x=",chr(39),$x,chr(39),";\n",$x;

I work at Microsoft. I have nothing to do with Halo and nothing I say is "the official word".

Posted by: defnop552
What if The Flood "sage"'s every thread and the forum becomes static?
What if someone does? It's not like the thread is ruined if someone posts without bumping it. The following posts would proceed as normal.

I could see people just using it as a license to prolong threads they know are rulebreaking though. Not posting at all is still better.

The one situation I've wished this feature existed for though is when the OP is a shocksite link.

[Edited on 04.05.2012 7:10 PM PDT]

  • 04.05.2012 7:04 PM PDT

When all hope seems lost, and the ground is littered with the bodies of our fallen comrades, wait for the thunderous crash of my rifle, and I shall lead us to salvation.

sage


OT: It would actually help, I think, and I can't imagine it would be too hard to implement.

  • 04.06.2012 4:39 AM PDT

Gamers Anon

Achronos: And what's this about a "design team" I've been hearing? Apparently stosh is so awesome he's now considered a "team".

I can see a potential exploit of this. People could let a thread go to the second page etc... Then use the thread to raise their post count or talk about other potentially worse stuff.

  • 04.06.2012 5:16 AM PDT

When all hope seems lost, and the ground is littered with the bodies of our fallen comrades, wait for the thunderous crash of my rifle, and I shall lead us to salvation.

Well, Bungie could just set it to not count for your post count.

As for talking about other stuff, who cares if nobody sees it? And if somebody does, there's always the report button.

  • 04.06.2012 5:46 AM PDT

*´¨)---––•(-• Dutchy •-)•–--–-(¨´*
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(¸.•´ (¸.•Everything fails•.¸) ´•.¸)

Then no one can make threads about sages anymore. :(

  • 04.06.2012 6:04 AM PDT

Bravo zulu, I like it.

  • 04.06.2012 6:24 AM PDT

Didact's Reprisal -
Now is the time of our unworlding
One final effort is all that remains
And I am not afraid
We shall fulfill our promise
We fight for the grace of the Mantle
And this time none of you will be left behind

Like someone mentioned above, it could be abused.

Just let whiny trolls be. If you're actually that concerned about others continuing the topic, send them a PM and ask them to stop.

  • 04.06.2012 7:06 AM PDT

*´¨)---––•(-• Dutchy •-)•–--–-(¨´*
¸.•´¸.•*´¨) ¸.•*¨)••(¨*•.¸ (¨´*•.¸´•.¸
(¸.•´ (¸.•Everything fails•.¸) ´•.¸)


Posted by: Im SteelAssassn
Like someone mentioned above, it could be abused.

Just let whiny trolls be. If you're actually that concerned about others continuing the topic, send them a PM and ask them to stop.
I hope you aren't serious.

  • 04.06.2012 7:13 AM PDT

Per Audacia Ad Astra

I'd rather let the trolls get caught, and the people who don't understand the forum rules get told off. It's a win-win outcome.
The trolls are banned/warned, and the idiots who bump the thread are also warned.

  • 04.06.2012 7:15 AM PDT