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in reply to Dealing with An(?:no|on)ytroll

I think the main thing we need is to implement a user setting to disable showing reaped nodes (or children of reaped nodes). Then those of us who choose to pretend there are no trolls just wouldn't see them. That would do it for me anyway.

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Re^2: Dealing with An(?:no|on)ytroll
by davies (Prior) on Jan 03, 2006 at 21:52 UTC
    Without having a clue how much work would be involved, would it make sense to have this (a) as the default, and (b) compulsory for anonymonks? That way, the trolls themselves wouldn't see their posts for long.

    Regards,

    John Davies

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      Without having a clue how much work would be involved, would it make sense to have this (a) as the default, and (b) compulsory for anonymonks? That way, the trolls themselves wouldn't see their posts for long.

      I'd like the option, but I wouldn't like it to be the default. Two reasons:

      1. A minor protection from abuse. The more people who see reaped nodes the more people are likely to double check that they should be reaped
      2. In my experience deleting troll posts completely only encourages trolls (as counter intuitive as this may seem). My guess is that they see it as some kind of acknowledgement of their presence. In my experience the best way to treat trolls, if possible, is to make the troll see their post, and to hide it from everybody else. Trolls don't like being ignored and will then wander off.
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