quality of comments in news items

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Grand Master

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I've been a member of the Neowin community since late 2001 and I'll admit that since then this site has come a long way but one thing that has remained and has steadily gotten worse is the down trend in the quality of comments to the posted news items.

The amount of flaming, off topic comments and plain old trolling is clearly visible in *most* front page news items. This problem also extends to the gamers and software section on a slightly lighter scale, regardless it portrays the whole community in a negative light, puts off some new people from joining and also attracts the wrong kind of members eg. those here to cause trouble.

I'm sick to death with the amount of trolling to the point where I've decided to create this thread to bring this rather important issue to the attention of the administrators and senior staff with hope that something, sometime soon in the future to such activities by members.

However it is done, be it by assigning existing moderators or recruiting more mods with the specific purpose of monitoring news comments, by having a more aggressive strategy towards members who continually abuse there ability to post comments in news items eg. by removing comment privileges, temp bans, total bans for repeat offenders etc. Something needs to be done and the sooner the better.

I hope this thread is taken seriously,

Cheers!

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I think that the Neowin staff are aware of this issue. Some measures have already being taken the staff in light of similar problems in the RWI forums, they have merged issues like the middle east and homosexual issue topics into one thread to in an attempt to avoid trolling of every new topic started.

As this is a news and tec site i would feel that this topic is a serious one, but there is a need to be a balance with what is acceptable and what is not. The site is now bigger that it ever was im sure, this being a testement to the work done with it.

So yes in effect its important that "important" news items are debated in some resonable manner, there is of course alot of rather daft news posted too, im not awre of what news is posted on the front page, as i never read there, its the forums i speak of.

If ppl are trolling in threads regardless of what area of Neowin, the staff will deal with them accordingly, if you see a post that you consider as trolling, pm a moderator, or press the report button. This usually solves the problem ;)

Grand Master

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@snyper: there is a balance, whats acceptable and what isn't is defined in the neowin rules.

neowin mods do an awesome job in the forum, theres no doubt about that, but i feel that the comments in news items often go unnoticed

That's what News Mods are for, and 2 new ones have recently joined the team :)

yes well i was unaware that 2 more have joined the news mods hopefully the additional manpower means seeing less comments like the ones I've described in my first post.

In the future i'll be making a pain of myself for you guys in regards to reporting comments that break aforementioned rules of the site.

cheers!

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dr.bisho

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Of course, but then its up to the members to press the report button.

do that, and you get a pm from a MOD....trust me i feal some are flame baits, coz if i hear some one saying that infront of me, i hate it, but its not breaking "neowin rules"

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If you want to troll and generally use profanity and abuse others, then I think we'd all rather you posted some place else tbh. Neowin is going great without that kind of ridiculous behaviour IMHO

Going great? They allow gays like you to post, so it is not great.

Profanity = awesome

You = Poopyhead

PS: markjensen - I'm not grinding an axe. I just want people to know that they are retarded. Also, I have been banned multiple times. I LOVES IT HEER.

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Chosen One

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Going great? They allow gays like you to post, so it is not great.

Profanity = awesome

You = Poopyhead

PS: markjensen - I'm not grinding an axe. I just want people to know that they are retarded. Also, I have been banned multiple times. I LOVES IT HEER.

I wouldnt talk to much buddy, you have 49 posts with a little over a year. I think you are the "poopyhead"

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Also, I have been banned multiple times. I LOVES IT HEER.

It seems, then, that you have great difficulty in the "get a clue" department.

If you have been banned from Neowin multiple times, it means they don't want you around here any more.

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wctaiwan

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Sorry to bump an old thread, but seriously, how about a report button for the news items?

Or even the "Digg-like" (N) (Y) ratings to keep the fanboy/troll monsters from having to be heard from? I dunno. :/

From experience, it's the trolls that (ab)use this.

wctaiwan

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