Making it Better: The future of WP

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^ I have often seen questions by members who clearly have communication issues. These questions are met sometimes by members who are irked by this style possibly due to the amount of trolls who have done this in the past. There always appears to be an element of distrust with new members who appear low functioning ( I'm guilty of it my self ) .

I’ve been guilty of that myself. Yes.

If I did that, it was a mistake.

This is one reason why I find that the written medium can lead to misunderstandings.

If I did that, I would like to be informed of it.

Last edited by kraftiekortie on 17 Aug 2020, 7:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.

If I ever thought someone was a troll or sockpuppet my only reply would be

The future of WP would be better if we had a full-time troll hunter. Someone who was very good with computers who could ferret out disingenuous people, to improve site security.

That would reduce our anxiety about new members, and improve the forum morale considerably.

I guess the message is : don’t feed the trolls.

What does that emoticon mean?

It's Spider Man.

Not a problem...Seeing the question you brought up just prompted me to clarify what I was meaning so that anyone else reading the thread could get a better understanding of what I was trying to say (And words can be interpreted differently by people for a number of reasons), so clarification was considered to be in order.

I'd rather be prompted for clarification than leave someone confused or misunderstanding what I had said.

As the the 2 groups, they aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, more that there are extemes who will jump on a rule infringement (or ignore rule infringements even for a member who has been on the site for years).

Whilst the rules are "clear", their are still areas where people may not agree...For example "* Please don't post duplicate threads." - Is a "duplicate thread" only where the same question is asked, or also where a "related but different" (maybe clarification on the answer to a previous thread) thread is created (which may have been created to assist the member posting differentiate answers)?

IE: "which team should I follow" (with multiple answers) followed by "I'm thinking about following team XYZ: could I have some more information about them?" Whilst both could conceivably fit into a single thread, the later has obviously been created to seek clarity on a related, yet different line of questioning to the former, so as to avoid both confusion caused by answers to a question no longer needing a reponce as well as to ensure this more "pressing" question is noticed and answered rather than being lost and so not receiving the answer the questioner needs.

You would need a mod will full privileges ( I hope Alex has fixed that issue ) , an obsessive nature and keen spider senses imo

Yaaay for Transcendance .

We used to have a member here who would tell every newbie their post is a suspect. I used to think he was taking a dig at aspies but it turns out he thinks that of all new members.

Only time I thought we got a bunch of sockpupppets here was back in 2010 after an incident and some former moderator here went mad and all these weird accounts joined here and sadly I thought auntblabby was a sockpuppet and someone else and I thought they were all that user's sockpuppets. The names were too weird. But it was just a big coincidence that at the same time all these accounts joined here with unusual usernames. But I remember me and other users were reporting these accounts.

I put new posters on probation, in my mind, but try not to be obvious about it.
Yes, so many trolls out there. <sigh>

Don't worry about them.
You still have me, remember?

Personal attacks on anyone not left shouldn’t be allowed or praised.

Well, personal attacks on anyone, regardless of leaning, shouldn't be allowed, but I do get your point that there is a subsection of the community here who seem to be quite enthusisatic in their disparagement of those who are not of the left, and seem to band together against them.

Yup.
The problem is so glaring, yet it is allowed to persist.

Personal attacks on anyone should not be allowed or praised.
I'm hoping for expansion of the mod team - more mods means someone can react faster.
"Calling up for <something>" should never be allowed to take a form of a personal attack.