Incantus posted at 12:15PM Mon, 17 February 2020 - #4380752

pikesPit posted at 5:56AM Mon, 17 February 2020 - #4380735

Maybe it helps to look at the registration date of a poster to identify the new wave of trolls which now start to become vocal.

I hope the moderators will strictly enforce these new rules from now on, because the information value about >Poser per se< vanished to almost nill in the last several months because all interesting threads were buried under a shitload of irrelevant threads, or threads were hijacked to OT by some members so that the relevant information got buried in tens of pages of OT posts.

I wouldn't dare to say the old SmithMicro forum was better. But at least they managed to keep the known trolls out, most of the time.

I DO look forward that this forum will become a source of information about Poser again, and not a place where paid trolls can run rampant at their will.

regards,

Peter

Are you trying to make any inappropriate accusations ? sure Renderosity can start to ban any new account made that are no potential buyers within a few weeks that sure would make sense ! If yo do not let People talk then it all will end up in numbers of threads like posts that are being made with new Poser releases, diminishing the Interest even more, I do not think it would be a good way to go ! If something is of interest then people come and talk but if you stopp them of talking they just loose interests and leave!

I do not think pikesPit's comment was aimed at all new members but probably came from past experiences where, when the moderators attempted to tighten things some new members appeared who, I suspect had been encouraged to join by the same posters that were being suspended or barred. It was quickly apparent that their views were similar and they were also disruptive. That is my opinion mind, pikesPit may have had something different in mind. In my case it is not an accusations just a comment at what I have seen happen elsewhere in the past, and not just on 3D art forums.

I do think this is a great move and, so long as the rules are applied consistently and fairly everyone should know where they stand. One forum I left had a post suggesting certain governments (I will not supply the name given) had a secret operation where they were rounding up the homeless and burying them in mass graves. Due to poor moderation at the time this post was not at all exceptional but clearly nothing to do with 3D art. Bad as it has been the flame wars here have gone nowhere near that far, but any dive needs to start somewhere and can only continue if there is no, or bad, moderation. One reason why I full support this move.

 

 

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