Posted by Tabitha on September 7, 2016, at 23:53:55
In reply to Re: Dealing with difficult posters, posted by baseball55 on September 7, 2016, at 20:37:33
I think it will blow over. We might lose a couple of posters in the mean time.
I've seen forums where trolls regularly show up, yet don't manage to hijack the entire discussion. Some long side tangents will go on, but it doesn't stop everything. In those forums, there are a lot of strong members who deal with the troll with a combo of dismissiveness like "oh look, our favorite troll again", handily eviscerating the troll's arguments, and pointing to their history. I wish we could get that kind of approach going here.
This site's design works against us since it's not really multi-threaded. If there's a long sub-thread about Lou, it visually obliterates the other side-threads. I'm comparing that to Disqus, which captures sub-threads with indents. Of course indents have problems as well, but it makes it easy to ignore an un-interesting side topic.
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