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06-16-07, 10:14 AM
I'm finding that I stop going back to check an interesting thread once 2 or 3 individuals take it over for awhile with 20, 30, or 40 posts along the lines of "I'm right, no, you're wrong and I'm right, no, you're an idiot because . . . " and I wonder if there is any automated way that the forum could flag these with a suggestion to take their new topic to another thread or to PM? Probably this is a chronic difficulty to manage in any forum.
Keep in mind this kind of post isn't offensive in any way, at least to me, but I find once I spend 3 or 5 minutes running through two pages of that I just back out and never return although I expect some of these threads do eventually get back on topic.
Yes, I do see the report post link within each posting, but I'm not offended by these kind of posts, and I'm sure there is some satisfying characteristic for the posters involved to see there comments in the forum and not just in a PM exchange, so I'm really just wondering two things:
A/ How could the discovery of this kind of distraction be somewhat automated, e.g., profiling? so that likely cases are prompted to the moderators for possible consequence?
and
B/ How could this exchange go somewhere else so the thread could stay on topic?
The child-rearing notion of giving them a "time out" from the thread in question once discovered (in terms of a temporary ban of a few hours to the particular thread or an inability to post again until 10 other replies are posted), along with a prompt to go to PM or a new thread dedicated to themselves, would seem like a more appropriate first step than deleting the thread or banning the users, which I've read happens from time to time although I've not observed it because I'm not that active.
I'm targeting the forums that are not Foo with this comment. Foo, by its nature, is agreeably less restrictive.
Keep in mind this kind of post isn't offensive in any way, at least to me, but I find once I spend 3 or 5 minutes running through two pages of that I just back out and never return although I expect some of these threads do eventually get back on topic.
Yes, I do see the report post link within each posting, but I'm not offended by these kind of posts, and I'm sure there is some satisfying characteristic for the posters involved to see there comments in the forum and not just in a PM exchange, so I'm really just wondering two things:
A/ How could the discovery of this kind of distraction be somewhat automated, e.g., profiling? so that likely cases are prompted to the moderators for possible consequence?
and
B/ How could this exchange go somewhere else so the thread could stay on topic?
The child-rearing notion of giving them a "time out" from the thread in question once discovered (in terms of a temporary ban of a few hours to the particular thread or an inability to post again until 10 other replies are posted), along with a prompt to go to PM or a new thread dedicated to themselves, would seem like a more appropriate first step than deleting the thread or banning the users, which I've read happens from time to time although I've not observed it because I'm not that active.
I'm targeting the forums that are not Foo with this comment. Foo, by its nature, is agreeably less restrictive.