No s**t. You have made it quite obvious how much of a stick you have up your ass about utefans. I only used utefans as an example of how well this works for combating trolls.
EDIT: you missed the point – regardless of whether or not people feed trolls once enough people downvote the person they can no longer post again.
Utefans is an example, I also have used reddit as an example in other threads. They have a downvoting system that moves crappy posts down. You don’t key in on that though. I love this site so far, but there are things that can be improved, and yes utefans does certain things better imho. Doesn’t mean we are making this utefans.
I personally don’t like the idea of moderators tossing people at their own discretion. Cougarboard does that, and you can’t even speak ill of BYU without immediate action. I like the voting system (beit utefans or reddit), because it gives some power to the members.
Did somebody over there bang your wife? Seriously, I understand you don’t like that board, but now you’re just being a dick. You do realize that the vast majority of posters here migrated from ufn, and most of us still post over there yet you continue to denigrate these folks (myself included). If you hated ufn, you will likely end up hating it over here after long enough.
Show me one personal attack, I’ve always gone out of my way to steer clear of this. And saying you have a stick up your ass is not a personal attack, although you appear to be incredibly sensitive so maybe it is (and I guess this would be too in your eyes). Also, I’m giving suggestions. I sent a message to tony a few days ago praising him, but he asked for suggestions so I’m giving them. There have been dozens of posts making suggestions, but you’re p**sed because I’ve made some? All of my posts have been critical? Please, the ones you focus on have been, but I’ve made posts in nearly every category so far discussing a wide range of topics.
You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about either. I know a ton of people personally on utefans, either as friends or as customers of my business, and they are individual posters who contribute greatly. It’s not “like three posters with a bunch of fake accounts”.
You meant no offense by saying “it’s just three posters” who are “morons” posting all the content over there? Or by playing into the “beavis and butthead” posts? Sure bud.
And the site is great so far, doesn’t mean it can’t be better though. You act as if suggesting something is somehow degrading to tony. Ridiculous.
Don’t know if its possible, but perhaps make a topic creation auto-mod, where a poster has reputation and must have a certain amount (above 0) to be able to post new topics.
That way it doesn’t dissuade from posting replies, just new topics that would clutter the board.
Trolls just want attention. If UFN’s system has taught us anything, the blue stars only encourage trolls to post more because it’s confirmation that they’re posts are striking a chord and getting to people.
I never blue starred the Duckgrad types over there for that reason.
I like Tony’s idea to keep things as positive as possible on this site.
What about a transparent downvote where everybody can see who downvotes others? Might keep some folks from being so liberal with the downvotes. I’m just trying to think of ways to keep trolls at bay without overloading mods, and move quality posts up.
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