gagnonrich opened this issue on Aug 07, 2012 · 45 posts
WandW posted Wed, 08 August 2012 at 12:29 PM
Quote - threads here get locked because the mods are incredibly lenient on a handful of people who have made a career out of cross-forum/platform shit-disturbing and trolling. most make their 'home' in other communities and just moonlight here to stir up shit. if mods started handing out forum timeouts instead youd see a lot fewer locked threads.
'oh, this is your eighth troll post this weekend? may i present you with a 24 hour all-expense paid vacation from Renderosity.'
...but personally i think it would be more amusing to just 'llama' them: for xx hours every forum post, comment and PM they send - regardless of the text content - goes through as Oorgle (the angry sound a llama makes when it cannot communicate with humans).
imagine the hilarity when they go to bitch at a mod for giving them a timeout and their PM goes through as Oorgle Oorgle Oorgle :)after being llama'd x amount of times during a given period of time, their avatar is automatically replaced with a llama, they become a 'perma llama' and may never speak again :D
Well said, Gabriel. Getting a thead locked is how some deal with views they don't agree with on any Forum. However, the Moderators time is valuable, too, so that needs to be taken into consideration. The thread that the OP refers to was interesting, but had pretty much run its course, IMHO.
BTW, This morning I had to deal with a spammer that got into a model train forum that I run; Some detective work showed they had set up at least three login names; hopefully I got them all. It takes time.....
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