Originally Posted by
Palisade
You’d imagine a zero tolerance approach to new posters would not be hard to police, too much leeway seems to be afforded to obvious trolls, there should certainly be a probationary period to be served before they are granted access to the PM system, a wait of say 4 weeks would soon send the troll back under the bridge, it’s all about instant gratification with the potentially abusive poster
Ah but it's not always "new" posters that could be a troll.
I am naturally a little suspicious of new posters cos in the past I have interacted with them only to realise that they are a returning troll.
But many times it's more like a "sleeper" account that is the troll rather than the genuine noob.
You know the 1, maybe opened their account here 3,4,5,6 years ago or even longer.
Lying there. Dormant for years.
Then all out of the blue they start posting!
Seen a few suspicious "resurrected" accounts the last few days but equally an awful lot of "new" accounts, quite a few on 1 thread in particular.
There will always be trolls here, regardless of what agenda they serve.
The thing is when all posters here can spot their posts and behaviour how come it takes so long for the mods to act?
Yeah, some sad fuckers here.
Last edited by Barney Rubble; 17-07-19 at 23:11.
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