[IxDA Discuss] Fighting trolls

[Cindy Alvarez]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Calvin Park 박상빈 <calvinspark at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > I question the initial premise of this post; is Trolling a problem on
> this
> >  list, (specifically individuals Trolling, with no malice - #3)?
>
> For some cases, it can be a problem. For example, I enjoy going to
> howardforums.com which is a cellphone hacking community. That forum
> suffers greatly from new members asking HOW DO I ADD FREE RINGTONES TO
> MY NEW RAZR THX every.single.day. I'm not even joking about the caps
> and the tone of the voice either.


Again, this can be done through integration with the posting process.  If
more than 50% of the post content is in all caps, stop and make them rewrite
(and at the same time, show the user matching similar posts to divert
them).  There are undoubtedly other patterns that are associated with
"noise" - but the burden should be on the technology, not the user.

Cindy