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CopelandCopeland Member Posts: 1,955
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Please start banning people who go to a games forums just to say it sucks. They serve no productive purpose and are generally just trying to annoy a community.

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  • cooldevocooldevo Member Posts: 371

    I agree with that.  Trolls can turn a good forum or discussion thread bad real quick, and currently there is nothing that can be done about it, except to try and ignore it or fight back.  And as most of them are attention lovers, they just keep posting garbage until someone gets fed up and says something.

    My suggestions would be as follows:

    1) Suggestion as per Copeland. or;

    2) At least add an option to report a post, so it goes to the admins to look at to see if it violates the CoC (can't remember if that is the name of it on this site). or;

    3) have some sort of a "squelch" option to filter selected users, so you don't have to see their posts.

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  • ScarisScaris Member UncommonPosts: 5,332

    There really should be a report abuse link on the bottom of every post. I don't know why we don't have that here honestly.

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  • NaosNaos Member Posts: 379

    Although it would be great to limit the number of "your game suxs ______ roxors" posts here at mmorpg.com it would just open up another can of worms if they were also able to click a "report to admin" button as well.

    I guess it would be a lot of work to admin.... and I must say some game really do suck lol.

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  • cooldevocooldevo Member Posts: 371

    That is true, but there are only so many times you can read "your game sux" before you just get sick and tired.

    And all you would have to do is implement that if you report something that is within the Code of Conduct, you would get a warning, if you do it again, you get banned.  Trolling is pretty easy to figure out, as it is pretty explicitly defined on Webopedia.com.  That way you could report massive spammers advertising their "free" garbage in all the posts too.

    Troll
    (v.) (1) To deliberately post derogatory or inflammatory comments to a community forum, chat room, newsgroupand/or a blog in order to bait other users into responding.
    (2) To surf the Internet.
    (3) To hang around a chat room reading the posts instead of contributing to the chat.
    (n.) One who performs any of the above actions

    Now don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with differing opinions.  If someone takes the time to explain what and why they say what they do, that is great.  But a lot of just "your game sux" with no reasoning just gets annoying.  And half the time it's just a troll that wants to get a reaction out of people.  And I know just ignore them, but when they become a nuisance it's just outright irritating.

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