Ability for OP's to hide comments from trolls.

LondonGent

There are ALOT of trolls on this site and when I am opening a thread I seem to attract them in droves, so would be nice as the thread owner to be able to hide comments or block certain users from posting to my threads.

I am only interested in advice from serious, sincere, intelligent and helpful individuals not bored trolls who hide behind their usernames with nothing better to do than to write defaming, sarcastic comments and stir the pot.

Yes there is a report button and yes I can ignore users and yes I can stop feeding trolls but it does not prevent the trolls comments appearing on my threads and when one of the trolls post, their troll mates join in and the whole thread goes right off topic with all of them patting themselves on the back and increasing their thanks count and post count.

Some management of the threads should be put into the hands of the OP's.

Browntoa

won't happen


I could start a thread with Moneymakingscam is great and then edit out or hide all the "its a scam" posts to only show glowing references


"moderation" is in the hands of the forumteam

LondonGent

Browntoa wrote: »

won't happen


I could start a thread with Moneymakingscam is great and then edit out or hide all the "its a scam" posts to only show glowing references


"moderation" is in the hands of the forumteam

Hmmm...thats true.

Stevie_Palimo

I think you miss understand what a public forum is geared up for as they are about having discussions with others that will of course attract different views and opinions.

If this is something you cannot deal with or like then perhaps internet forums are not for you.

LondonGent

So what function does marking a post as spam do?

Does this go into a spam queue and moderators remove them?

elsien

It's an open internet forum. And while there are definitely trolls who pop up on a regular basis, there are also OPs who don't like the answers they are getting who call troll when that isn't actually the case.

I tend to think of it as a conversation. Yes you get random comments and get sidetracked, and some advice is factual but perhaps phrased a little bluntly so people get the hump. But that's what I like about the forum. And I just ignore the off topic, slighly less than polite stuff because the sensible answers, even if they are telling me I am wrong, are worth it.

It's too easy to call troll when the nature of this sort of forum is that you are sometimes going to get answers that you don't like, for whatever reason. Someone disagreeing with you does not automatically mean they are trolling.

LondonGent

Stevie_Palimo wrote: »

I think you miss understand what a public forum is geared up for as they are about having discussions with others that will of course attract different views and opinions.

If this is something you cannot deal with or like then perhaps internet forums are not for you.

Yes agreed, but the discussion needs to be on topic, not to the point where members are slyly making veiled insults and defaming remarks to the OP because the OP has disagreed with something the troll has said.

hunters

LondonGent wrote: »

There are ALOT of trolls on this site and when I am opening a thread I seem to attract them in droves, so would be nice as the thread owner to be able to hide comments or block certain users from posting to my threads.

I am only interested in advice from serious, sincere, intelligent and helpful individuals not bored trolls who hide behind their usernames with nothing better to do than to write defaming, sarcastic comments and stir the pot.

Yes there is a report button and yes I can ignore users and yes I can stop feeding trolls but it does not prevent the trolls comments appearing on my threads and when one of the trolls post, their troll mates join in and the whole thread goes right off topic with all of them patting themselves on the back and increasing their thanks count and post count.

Some management of the threads should be put into the hands of the OP's.

As a serious, sincere, intelligent and helpful person ....

You don't own a thread on a forum just because you started it.

LondonGent

elsien wrote: »

It's an open internet forum. And while there are definitely trolls who pop up on a regular basis, there are also OPs who don't like the answers they are getting who call troll when that isn't actually the case.

I tend to think of it as a conversation. Yes you get random comments and get sidetracked, and some advice is factual but perhaps phrased a little bluntly so people get the hump. But that's what I like about the forum. And I just ignore the off topic, slighly less than polite stuff because the sensible answers, even if they are telling me I am wrong, are worth it.

It's too easy to call troll when the nature of this sort of forum is that you are sometimes going to get answers that you don't like, for whatever reason.

I understand your thinking but the definition of a troll "is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion often for their own amusement."

So whilst you yourself like the way it works, there are some of us that do not find trolls helpful at all and an annoying distraction especially when many gang up and start obliterating the true message of the thread.

spadoosh

LondonGent wrote: »

So what function does marking a post as spam do?

Does this go into a spam queue and moderators remove them?

Why are you looking for some kind of special protection. You really can just pick and choose what you want to read. No one makes you believe what someone posts and no one make someone else believe what someone else posts, thats down to the individual.

What do you do if theres someone on the street saying things you disagree with or if someone calls you a name? Do you call the police or like the majority of people do you ignore them? What about when someone bad mouths you and spreads rumours (think its happened to more or less everyone) again is that something you got to the police for?

LondonGent

hunters wrote: »

You don't own a thread on a forum just because you started it.

Well maybe that should change.