How to get rid of trolls.

You......You monster!

 

We've discussed this as a possibility.

 

I'd suggest eating them, but...this works as well

 

Actually, the best way is to have a really big billygoat on your side

 

Dog LIps fits that category quite nicely

 

Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid idea.

Any "community" that closes its doors to new users when interest ramps up doesn't deserve to be called a community.

 

yeah, man-thing's a communist!

 

Can't you just block ips for troublemakers

this means https proxys are needed or mail 2 web to activate accounts, that's a bit of work for pop 3 email.

- Whirly

 

Exactly why we've only discussed it and not implemented it so far. For the time being, the troll problem here is manageable, and steps such as this probably won't be taken unless it gets significantly worse.

 

Unfortunately many people have rotating IPs that may be shared with several other users who use the same provider, most notably AOL, meaning we'd have to block dozens of IPs, which still wouldn't gaurantee the troll not coming back, and at the same time restrict many innocent posters.

 

The getting rid of free email may inhibit the use of good posters too.

 

My suggestion is just because you dont agree with someone you dont label them a troll.

 

Let's all just agree to disagree with Man-Thing.

 

fair enough

- Whirly

 

cant we all just be friends and dance around the swastika?

HEIL HITLER!

 

That's not an uncommon occurence. LOL!

Seriously, though, a lot of people use G-Mail, Hotmail or Yahoo as their primary email addresses so that they'll always have them no matter what ISP they're using. Not only that, but there are PLENTY of other free email services out there that people can go get accounts with to use in registering user accounts on message boards, so it really wouldn't slow them down in the end.

jag

 

very true socks are hard to stop

- whirly

 

yah, i aint really a Nazi.

 

I don't mean to disagree with you, but what do you mean it's managable?
Do you mean that it's managble but nobody is doing anything about it? Or do you mean that it's not actually managable and it hasn't taken over the site completely yet?

 

I'm sorry, what?

What I mean is, we don't have 30 trolls a day registering to the forum. The ones we do have are easily spotted and quickly dealt with, and they don't come by at a great enough rate to warrant something which would prevent hundreds of normal posters from registering.

 

I dunno, Man-thing has a point, that would've worked against me.

 

yeah, but you're manageable

 

pssh, they thought the could manage King Kong, didnt' they? Yeah, what happened there?


EDIT: Oh right, he died