is scratched in somewhere in my school’s bathroom…. every time I see it, I think it says Pippen Ain’t Easy

Ignoring content is annoying. That’s why ignoring trolls will be effective in helping them move on to another site.

Leaving the banning to Dave. He is a wise man.

If you feel like someone is disrupting the community, report them to Dave and move on.

you can flag people for cursing or whatever, but another option is to flag them as a troll. I’ve done this, and if we all do, then maybe dave or ben will cave to the vocal majority.

That the flagging is warranted.

If we’re insinuating the dude I think we’re insinuating, he was annoying but not really flaggable if ya ask me…

Flagging should only be reserved for blatant violations and ultra-trolling, not just trying to get attention.

If someone has an annoying POV, we should ignore them over flagging. If they spam their view, it’s flaggable to me, but not just them having an annoying opinion on something that most disagree with. I don’t think that’s healthy to flag things like that.

I ain’t directing this at RockingHarder, just adding my own annoying POV. We shouldn’t discourage people to think differently, even if it is completely misguided (ain’t saying it always is, just sayin’)

Mortimer

I can ignore the guy all day long. I’m totally capable of it and I’m happy to do it. Sounds like you are capable as well, and I’m assuming pretty much all of the BE posters are capable of it. But will they all do it? No. There are too many visitors here, and there will always be somebody willing to take the bait as long as there is trolling.

The difficult task isn’t getting an individual to stop responding to trolling, it’s getting EVERYONE to. And as long as he can get somebody to bite, it’s mission accomplished.

But sure, let’s give it a shot.

And I agree with Mortimer, quite often there isn’t any single post that is all that inflammatory, it’s the tone, content, and frequency of all of them combined, and how the deterioration in discourse completely hijacks the original topic.

i think we just need to moderate the content here more and let people know when they are acting out of line…the main problem with iamatrailblazersfan is the constant flaming and the lack of moderating…i used to read every comment on this site bc the posters had good content whether i agreed with them or not…these days i just scan and look thru posters i respect.

But seriously, does this SB Nation platform have an ignore function? Man, that would be great. Although those JD discussions would be just as unreadable with half the posts missing.

As Dave mentioned below, I think a lot of care has to come from this “right to decide.” Rewarding positive interactions with responses and discussion, while ignoring attacking, and nonsensical comments is a good way of deciding.

I came to this site of my own free will and decided that I wanted to become part of the community. I think anyone else should be able to do the same…IF they agree to abide by the guidelines of this community.

I’m not sure if I’m agreeing with you or disagreeing with you. Haha. I’m trying to differentiate between an open community (which we are), and a clique (which doesn’t allow people in that they don’t like).

that’ll usually do it.

you will degrade to his level. Just simple if you dont like crap dont step in it. You dont have to worry about everyone else cuz there is people that like batting on useless arguments.

if I have to come home and spend half an hour a day checking up on what you did…you have to go. I’m not taking time from my kid and family and Blazer research and writing and consulting with contacts just so I can make continual judgment calls after reviewing your comments. Even if nothing you say is over the line, being continually close enough to get negative attention will eventually get you booted as surely as swearing will. —Dave

This totally seems like reason enough to ban the troll du jour. Also, thanks Dave!! Best internet site ever!!

I’ve wondered about the whole ignoring/saying something/flagging continuum, and this clears up a number of my questions (especially since the flagging option is relatively new). Can something along these lines be included in the Site Conversation Rules as a reference?

Interesting how they have the same concept here and turned it into a saying about valuables in front of an animal.

This is not a good site if you care about your points to the exclusion of caring about people. It’s possible to be right and still be heinously wrong.

—Dave

I was about to state what you’ve said here.

I think a lot of the emotional reaction recently comes from the real (though maybe a bit embarassing) hurt that comes from Oden going down. We love these guys, and their injuries are our injuries. In some way we’ve linked their fates with ours. This makes us vulnerable, but it’s also rewarding. The timing of the Oden-hate was troubling, and I hope that people aren’t lurking on this site waiting to say I told you so.

…and poured, and poured, and poured. In fact, since our latest troll has joined, it has been nonstop salt from post 1.

When I administered a well trafficked forum, I learned to have very little tolerance for people who upset the existing community from their first post. If someone had a history of contributing but occasionally rubbed people the wrong way, that was handled more leniently and cautiously. But order was much easier to maintain if the riff raff were quickly snuffed out, and the way I see it, the content of this guy’s message would fit in perfectly at O-Live. I suspect the reason he’s NOT over there is because they’re used to trolls and he doesn’t get the response he’s looking for.

now that season tickets have sold out theres no incentive any more to get people to buy tickets bc they are all gone. that sucks that now that i have season tickets and get promo guarantees…there aren’t any promos.

At least, I don’t think so. That was in the junk drawer and was too silly to take seriously anyways.

Most of his stuff in an Oden-related thread was deleted so I ain’t sure, but it was probably because he wasn’t really willing to talk back and forth, and just repeating why Oden is probably going to die of a broken down body soon. Not really debating, just talkin’.

I’m assuming he stepped up his game a bit to get deleted, and I’m sure it wasn’t really politically related (unless he stepped up his game there as well).

I tried to engage him and discuss his point of view, but I don’t think he’s really into discussing it aside from repeating it over and over.

Mortimer

I missed a lot of panic at the Blazers Edge.