For discussion threads, a slower thread can usually resolve issues of hostility, if members become hostile towards each other.
It gives people more time to calm themselves down before posting, and because it would show them that the thread is slower, they’d know that their post needs to be more respectful and measured.
Anyway, it’s obviously just a suggestion. What do you guys think?
Limit Threads or Close Them?
Nah. Close the thread.
Yes. Slower threads work.
Something else.
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PS: Of course, if we have no say in this, then it would seem that this forum is now authoritarian in moderation. I can just log out for good.
Which type of thread category would this be referring to on the forums? I assume by threads you mean the limit the frequency someone can post on a thread? I know on the privacy browser thread it was temporarily changed to one comment a day. What amount of time would be deemed as slow enough?
I could see this being difficult for some support posts with an urgent issue, I don’t know, just throwing some questions out there in case I misunderstood.
I’m really not sure what the answer is. Sometimes people will just not agree no matter how much time you use to separate their responses to each other. While there have been good thread’s closed do to irrational behavior I see its just a part of Life. Good people are always loosing out to those who have no respect.
I’d hate to see you go but sometime in this Life we will all move on.
That’s very true. All things, good and bad, come to an end.
And yes, sometimes a member or two may decide to continue being hostile, but something like a one-month suspension, if that’s possible, should suffice.
If we’re talking about suspension, 30 days would be excessive and near the end of tolerance, I would think. How about 3 days instead?
That’s a cooling off period vs a ‘get the h* out of dodge’.
The level of hostility would determine it, as well as the interest people have showed in the thread. For the privacy browser thread, I would propose 4 hours. Again, if possible.
Or this, yeah. The idea is that a temporary suspension would very likely work.
I thought the “Which Privacy Browser?” thread was very useful thread on this forum. I think it was a drastic measure to close it because a couple of users started thrashing each other.
It would have been enough to warn them and maybe do some garbage collecting.
This is where it gets tricky. I mean some offenses are not as bad as others. I mean I was told all about myself in another thread not long ago. Said person deleted their account and the offensive slurs was hidden from public. So that is a situation that solved itself.
But it does leave to question should the punishment be the same for those antagonizing vs those who reacted?
And my only answer is ‘let the punishment fit the crime’. The absolute worst is to ban the user, but really not that effective if they can just make another user anyway.
I feel slower threads would work. I know two months ago when the Privacy Browser thread was changed to one comment a day that pretty much diffused the argument that was going on at the time fairly effectively without bans or closing the thread. suspending would only be for the most severe type of issue.
I have to wonder for the closure of the privacy browser thread, did anyone actually report as being offended or bothered, even with thread closure the comments are still there to read so it’s not like the closure shields anyone from seeing them. Slower commenting in this case would have likely diffused everything. If specific comments were that bad then they would have been removed.
I don’t know why you are posting this but it seems to me your intent is to cause distrust and rile up users based on something you don’t like or agree with. There was no need to add this to the post. I caution you on future post, topics and responses as there is no reason to put this out there as it is the furthest from the truth. Moderation is not always clear cut and sometimes it requires intervention that not everyone may be satisfied with. This forum is by far the best there is out there and hopefully remains so by keeping the nonsense from taking over.
Listen sir. A warning from you means absolutely nothing to me. I’ve been considering leaving for a while now because of you. Good try flexing your mod muscles, though. For once, it looks responsible.
Also, here is someone thinking of the same thing I suggested without me mentioning it at all publicly, but I did mention it privately, and it very surprisingly landed on deaf ears. Hence, the reason for me adding that.
I’m not trying to rile up anything. I’m trying to find better solutions.
I just knew from I saw you typing you’d come with something like this. So predictable.
PS: Before you ban me, like you’ve wanted to for a while now, lemme close some threads so they don’t get necroed.
EDIT: All done. Do your thing, Mr. Mod Man. You can put something like: “Suspended for treating mods the same way he treats other members”
Question Why should I be punished by a time limit to a thread because others can’t behave themselves? I mean to punish everyone isn’t the answer either. The issue here is that its very hard to keep people from getting their feelings hurt.
We live in such an emotional world for such a logical hobby.
First of all i didn’t give you a warning. It was just a piece of advice. Feel free to leave if that is what you think your response should be. As I explained moderation isn’t always clear cut and you may not always agree. So be it.
I believe that the thread that got closed and spawned this one simply needed to be closed.
The thread in my memory was always associated with people ultimately disagreeing so hard that they just began to call themselves all sorts of colorful things. It’s a very hot button issue and I don’t believe restricting how many replies one can post per day would solve anything. Disagreements like these ultimately create rifts between members here, and the lack of non-verbal cues only put fuel on the fire.
Alongside this, I believe the answer to thread is pretty cut clear now: there’s no right answer and it changes based on what the individual wants to limit, the amount of effort they want to put in and the how much convenience is taken away from them as a result of using such an option.
You can put something like: