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[Wickedkitten Veteran]

For a long time now, there has been a problem with people coming into the Mac Section to basically do hit and run comments about how idiotic and stupid macs are, and this has lead to entire topics becoming flamewars and ending up locked. From now on, if you come into the mac section and make a comment that has nothing to do with the topic at hand and is just a flame, you will be immediately receiving a warning. If you have already had 2 warnings about trolling in here you will be set to restricted for 3 days.

For regular members of the mac section it would help a lot if you could label your topics consistantly to show they are mac related threads to cut down on confusion.

Is this rule still in effect? I've seen more than a handful of users run free after trolling here more than a few times. :rolleyes:

Yeah and it usually doesnt help when people send reports on trolling that end up being contention or just someone not agreeing with them. :rolleyes:

[Homer]

I dont particually like macs... but i sometimes come through this part to have a gaze at some of the users desktops because they look so nice. The hardware is also nice. But i hate trolls... all these people are, are people that use macs and want to share their experiance with them, and also ask for help if its needed. The last thing we need is a dell humper come through and start trolling...

[Knight']

This needs to be applied to the comments section, I've seen ripgut post Mac bashing comments all the time in the comment sections.... and basically doing a hit and run attack.

[kairon]

I agree, the comments in Apple related news items is getting annoying.

[Island Roots]

For a long time now, there has been a problem with people coming into the Mac Section to basically do hit and run comments about how idiotic and stupid macs are, and this has lead to entire topics becoming flamewars and ending up locked. From now on, if you come into the mac section and make a comment that has nothing to do with the topic at hand and is just a flame, you will be immediately receiving a warning. If you have already had 2 warnings about trolling in here you will be set to restricted for 3 days.

For regular members of the mac section it would help a lot if you could label your topics consistantly to show they are mac related threads to cut down on confusion.

Is this rule still in effect? I've seen more than a handful of users run free after trolling here more than a few times. :rolleyes:

Yeah and it usually doesnt help when people send reports on trolling that end up being contention or just someone not agreeing with them. :rolleyes:

Very true, but it becomes a problem when that one reply causes a dominoe effect and other trolls come in and trash the thread. :sleep:

[Tiger.Girl]

may sound harsh but i think the warnings should just be cut out, if people cant read the rules they agree to when they sign up they dont really deserve 2 or 3 freebies....

they can then take the time they do have to read the rules while they are restricted and then you wouldnt have people with more then one warnings still running around trolling and would discourage people from even doing it once

[dougkinzinger]

In reply to the very first post which I just read today:

I used to be like that, then I realized that a) it serves no purpose, and b), WickedKitten's actually a cool chika :D

Edited October 6, 2003 by dougkinzinger

[Dazzla Veteran]

Correction, Wickedkitten is a cool chick ;)

[dougkinzinger]

thanks, I knew that, but my speedy fingers got the best of me :D. Corrected!

[Jon]

I hope so, all these kids in bed with dell and MS are really making me mad :(

Err you just became a troll. Well done.

[kairon]

Err you just became a troll. Well done.

Did he bash MS or Dell? No, he just stated many people who bash Apple in the name of Dell and MS are annoying him.

Or are you just a troll too?

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[Fusion]

may sound harsh but i think the warnings should just be cut out, if people cant read the rules they agree to when they sign up they dont really deserve 2 or 3 freebies....

they can then take the time they do have to read the rules while they are restricted and then you wouldnt have people with more then one warnings still running around trolling and would discourage people from even doing it once

agreed. It would be better to just ban them for a month or something. That maturity level of this board seems to be falling fast, too bad there is no way to just weed out the bad apples. ;)

[ZTrang]

When somebody is "banned" from Neowin, what does this entail? Does it mean that this person's username is banned, in which case the person can simply make a new one? Does it mean that the person's IP address is blocked from signing up for an account? Does it mean that the person's IP address can't browse Neowin at all? I've always wondered what exactly "banning" entails (not that I plan to get banned, of course ;) I love to argue, but I like to make lengthy posts with good arguments rather than idiotic trolling posts)

[MipScript]

I think there account is removed and also an IP ban is put in place - if they got a dynamic IP its kinda useless but they will still lose there account.

[firebud]

They'll get banned again if they hit that IP again. ;)

Prolly for about a minute but...eh. :p

[PureEdit]

When somebody is "banned" from Neowin, what does this entail? Does it mean that this person's username is banned, in which case the person can simply make a new one? Does it mean that the person's IP address is blocked from signing up for an account? Does it mean that the person's IP address can't browse Neowin at all? I've always wondered what exactly "banning" entails (not that I plan to get banned, of course ;) I love to argue, but I like to make lengthy posts with good arguments rather than idiotic trolling posts)

Well the many times I have been banned it was just that I could not view or post with my username for a while (1, 3 or 5 days).

[Wickedkitten Veteran]

Well the many times I have been banned it was just that I could not view or post with my username for a while (1, 3 or 5 days).

you weren't banned, you were just restricted. When you are banned, its forever.

[Steve]

Well the many times I have been banned it was just that I could not view or post with my username for a while (1, 3 or 5 days).

What were 'banned' for? Being a lippy bitch? :laugh: :p :happy:

[NeoSigma]

Restricted is 'view-only' of all the forums for 3 days (in this case) ....

Radish.

This is a good move. I don't think I ever posted in the Mac forum. Maybe because I don't have a Ma:p :p.

[duhk]

I think some mac users are idiots, cuz they think that the mac is flawless compared to microsoft, which gets attacked soo much.

The reason why microsoft gets attacked soo much and gets exploited so much, is cuz windows is more widely used than mac. So hackers and such, choose mircrosoft as the target, cuz it has more of an affect, since it's more widely used. If macs were more widely used, i'm pretty sure it would be riddled with holes and exploits and such as well. It's the same with firefox and IE. And not that many people realize this. And plus, microsoft doesn't try to downplay it's exploits like how mac did when there were some major holes in it.

But pc's are better, cuz it's more customizable, with hardware and software. Mac is very limited, i don't really know cuz i don't own a mac, but i'm pretty sure it's limited, since you have to buy a mac computer to use the mac os.

[Redestium]

Way to bring this one back ZTrang.

Oct 6 2003.

[Veedems Veteran]

old thread and only going to lead to more problems.

os x sucks, windows xp sucks, linux sucks, bsd sucks, every single damn os sucks. There. Done.

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