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Originally Posted by Marc
Nox,
I appreciate your opinion and taking the time to offer up input.
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You are welcome.
I know that you haven't asked for additional input ... but I shall offer my input anyway ... do with it as you will.
One of the board rules is no insults (my paraphrasing).
Nox has just called User X and unmitigated moron. Either Admin or the Mod (normally the mod does it) uses the edit function to either totally delete the entire post (not the best option - screams of censorship usually follow), or edit out the offending words (unmitigated moron). The latter is normally the better choice. Additionally, the Admin/mod will add a small note of warning to the offender that Board rules have been violated and a recurrance of this type behavior will result in more severe consequences (you can decide what those might be). This eliminates the validity of a censorship scream (not that it won't happen anyway) - any semi-objective board member can instantly see what's happening.
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When a post is intended for nothing more than a personal insult/attack I highly suggest that someone report the post so one of us can take appropriate action.
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This will seldom happen. As you point out ... there are adults here. None of us are really interested in running to Daddy because our feelings got hurted.
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People that do engage in such activities do much more harm to themselves and their reputation here than they do to the person they are attempting to insult.
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True. But what we are talking about here is not your established members ... but newbies. You get the troll pouncing on some new kid, and that kid is history.
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I admit I don't have a chance to read every post that is posted so I encourage anyone and everyone to notify us if there is a post that is nothing more than a personal insult/attack.
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*In a Freddy Prinz voice* "It's not your yob mon."
You have moderators for the forums ... that is part of their "yob". However, this is not a massive task. Spank the troll a couple times and they normally shape up.
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Thank you for your input; it is appreciated.
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I know this was for the first post ... I hope I haven't offended by round two.
Nox