So there was some troll going on a foul-mouthed spamming rampage, and @Noldus had quite a lot of moderating to do. Does this happen often? Trolls being trolls I guess this one might just create a new account and start over.
Could a posts-per-hour limit be useful to prevent this? We do have some legitimate and appreciated high frequency posters, so the limit would have to be set carefully. Some of our high frequency posters could reduce their number of posts though, by the virtue of editing, and adding stuff to, their last post in a given topic, instead of frequently going for the consecutive post limit.
Probably it would help a bit, but guy used multiple accounts, so it wouldn’t change the overall situations. Also, used different IPs. But as It doesn’t happen really often, I don’t think that’s worth overthinking - crazy people will also find a way out, so maybe we will just add some simple limit for newcomers.
wouldnt it be easier to just limit new forum accounts to only using emojis for the first 24 hours any serious member would agree to the wait ,and this would stop the trolls from opening a new account just to troll after recieving a ban , usually a troll looses intrest after 24 hours of no reactions ?
fair point , perhaps giving the senior members like jabs &noldus the use of the ban button , they could suspend an account untill you make a final decision , the seem to be active on the forum more than you . obviously i know your always lurking in the background as i have learned from experience its just that if they had that option it would nip in the bud of the trolling ???
mmmh ok point taken , so you dont want any members being official moderators then . ooops (WARNING TO SELF) SHUT UP@Lazurus_aka_Virgil , kaya is cooking up a spell potion
VHTV will probably have to increase its own staff considerably.
But you could also limit new users to a number X of postings at the beginning as already described. This was already possible over 10 years ago with various forum software systems.
Not that it is my decision but maybe it would be reasonable now to restrict activity of new users until this gets resolved. I understand that there might be new users with genuine urgent questions but would be still better than this.
had quite a lot of moderating to do. Does this happen often? Trolls being trolls I guess this one might just create a new account and start over.
its just that if they had that option it would nip in the bud of the trolling ???
