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Something needs to be done about the trolling in The Media Room. Look at these threads for example, and all the trolls

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=166400

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=166596

Something should be done about all these "this sucks" posts. In one of those threads even a mod joins in the trolling! :angry:

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It's funny, I was having a discussion with [saint_dark] just the other day about all the trolls. As an Admin/Mod for several years for many different companies, I can tell you one thing; there's no clear-cut sure-fire way to stop them from coming. Sure, you could spend your entire day warning and banning troll after troll, but that leaves precious little time for much else. The only thing I've found that even remotely works is to bring on Mods who do nothing else but, for lack of a better term, troll for trolls. :)

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we just had a trolling topic. mods will take care of the trolling as they see it, i guess for the moment just ignore them and they will move to the second page.

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Something needs to be done about the trolling in The Media Room. Look at these threads for example, and all the trolls

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=166400

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=166596

Something should be done about all these "this sucks" posts. In one of those threads even a mod joins in the trolling! :angry:

I don't even see any troll posts in those threads. To me, a troll is someone who posts something that they don't even necessarily believe in (or know about) simply to push the buttons of other users. I think these people were just expressing an opinion of a TV show. Most people here watch TV, even some of the "bad" shows.

Not every critical post in the Mac forum about the Macintosh OS or Steve Jobs is automatically a troll post. There needs to be room for legitimate criticism.

If a troll has hurt your feelings with a comment then just ignore him/her. Which brings us to my main point, don't feed the trolls.

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IMO totally insulting fans of a show and making a post that serves no purpose other then to **** off other fans of a show and say bad things about something as if they could make a show half as good is trolling to me. Oh and nice avatar [a fire chronicle], if its what I think it is. ;)

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IMO totally insulting fans of a show and making a post that serves no purpose other then to **** off other fans of a show and say bad things about something as if they could make a show half as good is trolling to me. Oh and nice avatar [a fire chronicle], if its what I think it is. ;)

I guess you're not going to get much sympathy from me. It's just a TV show. If somebody doesn't like it then move on. I still don't think they were trolling. I think they were contributing. You didn't like what they contributed but hey, that's life sometimes. I don't think they posted with the intent of ruining your day.

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That's interesting, I used the report feature to report a troll recently. Still nothing has been done about it. :crazy:

Same has happened to me.

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Something needs to be done about the trolling in The Media Room. Look at these threads for example, and all the trolls

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=166400

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=166596

Something should be done about all these "this sucks" posts. In one of those threads even a mod joins in the trolling! :angry:

Those aren't trolls: they're just opinions. If you're looking for trolls, you're not looking in the right place.

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That's interesting, I used the report feature to report a troll recently. Still nothing has been done about it. :crazy:

Atleast a few people reported this thread and nothing has been done.

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Atleast a few people reported this thread and nothing has been done.

Well it's not like someone's gonna give it to him. If he doesn't know where to find it, he doesn't deserve to have it, anyway. :p

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"if you don't like it, don't read it" just doesn't cut it.

if that's the case the only people who'll be left at neowin are morons posting complete bs over and over and over..

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Those aren't trolls: they're just opinions. If you're looking for trolls, you're not looking in the right place.

Exactly.

Kairon...if that's your definition of a troll, then many of your posts in religious threads or any front page news items that puts Apple in the slightest bit of bad light would be considered trollish. If you can't take it...a)stop dishing it out b)quit whining about it. Trolling? No. Like DSN said, they are opinions

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This is a good place to ask....

How exactly DOES the Report system work? I really have no clue....

Is it some sort of communal inbox for all moderators/admins? Or does it pm all active moderators/admins? Or just the forum leaders for each section?

Or is this one of those "Ask us no questions and we shall tell you no lies" kinda things?

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When you lodge a report an email is dispatched to the moderators of that forum. (this may have been changed to include all forum moderators. I don't recall exactly.) The email contains the title and address of the offending thread and whatever comment the reporter chooses to include.

The report is reviewed, and if deemed credible, action is taken.

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When you lodge a report an email is dispatched to the moderators of that forum. (this may have been changed to include all forum moderators. I don't recall exactly.) The email contains the title and address of the offending thread and whatever comment the reporter chooses to include.

The report is reviewed, and if deemed credible, action is taken.

i wish it was a bit more descriptive though, its kinda blah.

oh, maybe thats just some of the people... when they report posts their like...

SPAM

or TROLL

they dont really put anything helpful. but again, its not something you HAVE to do but it is encouraged.

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i do a few reports the last few days and didn;t fill in much in the area. simply because the thread title tells it all, are the thread titles included in the mail subject line?

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