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Just Dana
42 posts since
Dec 14, 2007

Dec 17, 2007 11:50 AM

Question about trolls on Active.com

Does active ban or otherwise discipline trolls when they find them? Or do they just let it all go wild?

What would you think if they did?
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joplus
294 posts since
Oct 11, 2007
1. Dec 17, 2007 11:52 AM in response to: Just Dana
Well, they do have the "Report Abuse" feature, but I don't know what it does.
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Just Dana
42 posts since
Dec 14, 2007
2. Dec 17, 2007 11:55 AM in response to: joplus

And what constitutes "abuse"?


In tranditional CH culture, I don't think there is anything that would be considered abuse. With some of the things that were said in the past...my gawd...

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dg1033
142 posts since
Dec 14, 2007
3. Dec 17, 2007 1:16 PM in response to: Just Dana
I got to believe that in the Active.com Corporate Manual of Style and the Employee Handbook for Modulators that there's strict guidelines of decorum that must be adhered to and that offending individuals will have their online personas and threads quickly and dispassionitly relegated to the digital dumper. And I'm sure that the shareholders will only put up with only so much...CH
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mrscoobs78
47 posts since
Dec 17, 2007
4. Dec 17, 2007 11:59 AM in response to: dg1033

dg1033 wrote: I'm sure that the shareholders will only put up with only so much...CH fücknuttery.

That makes me sad.

Even though I don't care for many of the things said in the CH, I thoroughly enjoy fcknuttery.

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Just Dana
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5. Dec 17, 2007 1:18 PM in response to: mrscoobs78
mrscoobs78 wrote:That makes me sad. Even though I don't care for many of the things said in the CH, I thoroughly enjoy fcknuttery.

Ah, that is the very best of CH nature! :) It would be a terrible shame if they had no tolerance for it.


OTOH, there is a difference between fucknuttery and abuse, but I wonder if Active can tell the difference. There is a distinct CH culture that can be subtle to the uninitiated. For instance, I wonder if the Active folks will see a substantive difference between the posts of, say, Brutal and LF4F?

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mrscoobs78
47 posts since
Dec 17, 2007
6. Dec 17, 2007 1:19 PM in response to: Just Dana
Just Dana wrote:
Ah, that is the very best of CH nature! :) It would be a terrible shame if they had no tolerance for it.


OTOH, there is a difference between that and abuse, but I wonder if Active can tell the difference. There is a distinct CH culture that can be subtle to the uninitiated. For instance, I wonder if the Active folks will see a substantive difference between the posts of, say, Brutal and LF4F?
If these Active folks have any smarts whatsoever, it won't take them long to figure it out.

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MiniDriver
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Dec 14, 2007
7. Dec 17, 2007 12:27 PM in response to: Just Dana
And what prevents somebody from abuse-reporting somebody just because they don't like them personally? Or because they want to make trouble?
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Holden Wood
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Dec 14, 2007
8. Dec 17, 2007 12:30 PM in response to: MiniDriver
MiniDriver wrote:
And what prevents somebody from abuse-reporting somebody just because they don't like them personally? Or because they want to make trouble?

My guess is that the abuse abuser would get abused.

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Longrun4fun007
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9. Dec 17, 2007 12:34 PM in response to: MiniDriver
The real abuse is someone who has already established over 30 post in this limited amount of time that the site has been available.
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Happy Trails
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Dec 13, 2007
10. Dec 17, 2007 12:46 PM in response to: Just Dana

Just Dana wrote:
And what constitutes "abuse"?


In *tran*ditional CH culture, I don't think there is anything that would be considered abuse. With some of the things that were said in the past...my gawd...

OK, Dana! We know! ;)
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Arrojo
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Dec 11, 2007
11. Dec 17, 2007 12:50 PM in response to: Just Dana
Just Dana wrote:Does active ban or otherwise discipline trolls when they find them? Or do they just let it all go wild?

What would you think if they did?

Really? We can get disciplined? http://community.active.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif What a cool new service!
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Wilco
58 posts since
Jul 8, 2007
12. Dec 17, 2007 12:56 PM in response to: Just Dana
A post is reported if it or the user violates Active's Terms of Use

Basically, keep it clean, respectful, and don't try to sell anything!
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McGoofy026
39 posts since
Dec 14, 2007
13. Dec 17, 2007 12:58 PM in response to: Wilco
uh oh.
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mrscoobs78
47 posts since
Dec 17, 2007
14. Dec 17, 2007 1:06 PM in response to: MiniDriver

MiniDriver wrote:And what prevents somebody from abuse-reporting somebody just because they don't like them personally? Or because they want to make trouble?


Perhaps multiple reports of abuse against the same poster would constitute a ban?

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