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<blockquote data-quote="researchfrog" data-source="post: 2882731" data-attributes="member: 5196"><p>Good luck, TxFrog1999. I help moderate a forum for certain professionals and it was a beating until we got rid of one of our top (and best) posters. If I might make three suggestions that could make life easier:</p><p></p><p>1) Publicly ban sock puppets and out the perpetrators, (not doxxing the users, but their main handles). Earl and Coach were the only socks that ever really worked well, i.e. didn't cause trouble.</p><p></p><p>2) Install a rep or voting system that allows the users to crowdsource moderation. While it can lead to vendettas and groupthink, it is also very efficient at dealing with trolls. </p><p></p><p>3) Create other subforums. A big problem here, (and at the splitters' site from a few years ago), is that there are not enough topical forums. Anyone wanting to talk anything other than sports has to wade into the political maelstrom of the General forum or the HASMP thread. The latter became extremely cliquish and not conducive to growing the user base and the former is a ludicrous, political void. </p><p></p><p>The absurdity is that right now we talk sports and politics. If we, for example, had an entertainment forum where we could talk music, movies, and tv, we could get to know each other outside of the narrow context of contentious sports and political opinions. When I look around KFC, (compared to, let's say, Surly), I think of the famous Bilbo Baggins' quote: "“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." </p><p></p><p>Look, I'm not saying to copy Surly, but mimicking some of their better features is worth consideration. The biggest part is isolating all political talk in a wasteland forum,which we already have. Then the user base just needs to become accustomed to no longer threadjacking everything into politics or other irrelevancies. Having other topical forums outside the wasteland is the pressure relief valve for the other irrelevancies. </p><p></p><p>And Tx, hope you have a happy birthday. If I don't see you before Christmas, have a good one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="researchfrog, post: 2882731, member: 5196"] Good luck, TxFrog1999. I help moderate a forum for certain professionals and it was a beating until we got rid of one of our top (and best) posters. If I might make three suggestions that could make life easier: 1) Publicly ban sock puppets and out the perpetrators, (not doxxing the users, but their main handles). Earl and Coach were the only socks that ever really worked well, i.e. didn't cause trouble. 2) Install a rep or voting system that allows the users to crowdsource moderation. While it can lead to vendettas and groupthink, it is also very efficient at dealing with trolls. 3) Create other subforums. A big problem here, (and at the splitters' site from a few years ago), is that there are not enough topical forums. Anyone wanting to talk anything other than sports has to wade into the political maelstrom of the General forum or the HASMP thread. The latter became extremely cliquish and not conducive to growing the user base and the former is a ludicrous, political void. The absurdity is that right now we talk sports and politics. If we, for example, had an entertainment forum where we could talk music, movies, and tv, we could get to know each other outside of the narrow context of contentious sports and political opinions. When I look around KFC, (compared to, let's say, Surly), I think of the famous Bilbo Baggins' quote: "“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." Look, I'm not saying to copy Surly, but mimicking some of their better features is worth consideration. The biggest part is isolating all political talk in a wasteland forum,which we already have. Then the user base just needs to become accustomed to no longer threadjacking everything into politics or other irrelevancies. Having other topical forums outside the wasteland is the pressure relief valve for the other irrelevancies. And Tx, hope you have a happy birthday. If I don't see you before Christmas, have a good one. [/QUOTE]
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