The Ignore Facility and other stories - aberdeen-music

Flash@TMB · 26-03-2006, 12:30

The ignore facility it probably the best means of killing trolls. Trolls are immune to banning, but they die if people stop feeding them. Perhaps more people would consider using the ignore facility if it was 100% effective. The problems are:

1) When other people quote from an ignore person, you can still read the quoted extract. Ignore should censor the quote, a good solution would be to blank out the quoted text with asterisks.

2) If someone is subscribed to a thread and receiving email updates then they will also get emails containing the text of people they have set to ignore. Not good!

3) When someone on ignore PMs you, do they get a message back saying "you cannot PM this user because they have set you to ignore"? That would be a good idea.

4) When adding someone to ignore, there should be an option to notify that person that you are ignoring them.

5) How about a top twenty list of most ignore users to be accessable from one of the menus? this would make it much easier for new members to figure out who the trolls are.

6) When some one is set to ignore, you still get this tantalising message in the thread saying "Joe Bloggs has posted something but you have chosen to ignore them - tick here to unignore them and read all this shit they're probably saying about you". Perhaps there should be an option to completely skip the ignore posts. As a moderator in our forum I do need to see when a troll has posted (just so i can delete them), so personally I wouldn't use this feature, but for most other people it would probably be the preferred option.

I reckon that these steps would go a long way to cut down on the flaming, making it possible for each individual to tailor their view of the site in such a way as to eliminate their chosen assholes.

One more thing. It would be REALLY nice to be able to ban specific people from specific forums. For instance I would like to ban about half a dozen accounts, which is probably 2 people from The Moorings Bar forum. Another benefit of this would be the ability for the main site moderators to ban partial Trolls from places like the Wasteland. and of course bands could ban trolling enemies from their own forums.

26-03-2006, 12:34

Or, you could just not bother replying to what someone says.

Flash@TMB · 26-03-2006, 12:39

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Dear Flash@TMB,

MKII has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled - The Ignore Facility and other stories - in the Technical Problems forum of aberdeen-music.

This thread is located at:
The Ignore Facility and other stories

Here is the message that has just been posted:
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Or, you could just not bother replying to what someone says.
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Phillip - I like you as a person in real life, but on here you are a partial troll and my eyes should not be subjected to your antics.

26-03-2006, 12:41

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Originally Posted by Flash@TMB

Phillip - I like you as a person in real life, but on here you are a partial troll and my eyes should not be subjected to your antics.

Which parts of my body are troll like!?

stuartmaxwell · 26-03-2006, 13:45

im a troll

Flash@TMB · 26-03-2006, 14:22

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Originally Posted by stuartmaxwell

im a troll

No. You are far too publically accountable to be a troll. EVERYONE knows who you are, and anyone that doesn't can find out in a matter of minutes. For starters they just need to look in your gallery LMAO!

Most of what you post is perfectly normal. A troll by definition mainly posts a bunch of sociopathic drivel purely designed to upset other people for no purpose other than the trolls own personal gratification.

When I read a thread with you being a c**t, I just think... OK you probably haven't met Hog or the guys from E106 yet because if you did then I reckon you'd like them.

Phllip dosen't bother me too much either, it's just his slightly warped sense of humour. Plus IMO he's a genuinely talented muscian, and a nice person in real life.

But the same does not apply to somone known only to a handful of moderators... When I read a proper, full time, trolls thread, I just picture it, sitting there in the bedroom of it's mums house, a pale, puny, acne riddled, under developed, twisted, greasy, perpetual adolescent virgin, tossing itself off into a old sock as it types... But hey - that's just my personal opinion. For all I know the troll could just as easily be Jennfier Aniston leading a double life.

stuartmaxwell · 26-03-2006, 14:25

i have met hog and the e106 lot a fair few times

i get along with them, as people, just not musically

Flash@TMB · 26-03-2006, 14:25

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Originally Posted by MKII

Which parts of my body are troll like!?

Your toes.

BTW since it has become clear that you were MKII, I've removed you from my ignore list.

Dave · 26-03-2006, 14:32

OK, Flash, we get the message. You've reported the technical problem and it will be dealt with as soon as possible. No more needs to be said, and we certainly don't need another thread of sniping at other members, which is what this is going to become if it carries on any further.

Keep the comments in this thread for technical matters pertaining to the "Ignore" function from now on, please folks.

26-03-2006, 14:49

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Originally Posted by Flash@TMB

Your toes.

BTW since it has become clear that you were MKII, I've removed you from my ignore list.

My warped sense of humour has been a technical problem for nearly 31 years now, but who did you think I was, I thought my profile made it obvious!?

I think we should have things like these on the go...