Is there any value left?

[monkers]

No.

The site is now just spammed and trolled by Poundshop actual fascists. Just endless mindless shite of utter mindless morons, occasionally interspersed by decent people who are posting less and less.

I'm not engaging further.

 

[briantrumpet]

I'm afraid I still don't understand people continually feeding such obvious trolling day after day, polluting every thread.

 

[C R]

I'm afraid I still don't understand people continually feeding such obvious trolling day after day, polluting every thread.

The problem is that even when they aren't fed, they still keep turning up.

 

[briantrumpet]

The problem is that even when they aren't fed, they still keep turning up.

They'd eventually get bored, especially if everybody put them on ignore so their bile weren't even being read. And the grown-ups could at least have vaguely civil/logical debates without dancing to the tunes of the trolls. It's not dissimilar to how Farage has got where he is.... troll, troll, troll, and then everyone ends up talking about just the divisive issues that Farage wants in the spotlight.

 

[All uphill]

I used to think that putting some posters on 'ignore' was a bad thing. That I wanted to hear other views.

Now I think it's more like turning off the sound when the TV ads come on; it avoids unpleasant and valueless noise.

 

[secretsqirrel]

I’m not one for using the ignore button, I usually skim or skip trolling posts. I have to admit though this week I have put 1 poster on ignore and 2 whole threads, and I feel much happier post de-clutter.

 

[briantrumpet]

I used to think that putting some posters on 'ignore' was a bad thing. That I wanted to hear other views.

Now I think it's more like turning off the sound when the TV ads come on; it avoids unpleasant and valueless noise.

It's a last resort for me. But it stops me seeing there's a 'new post' and then finding it's just trolling, and it reduces the temptation to engage. You know it's not 'in good faith' when they resort to sealioning or ad hominems, both of which are just there to provoke a response. It's really not complicated.

 

[classic33]

Problem is that they came on here with the simple aim of causing as much trouble as possible. If that meant posting in every thread on here, he'd do it. Because he could.

Purely and simply because this site is unmoderated, having been banned from CUK and BR for similar behavior. He left once, after the Southport attack attracted prison sentences for posts on social media. Then came back when things quitened down. Old posts on the first account still visible.

He's not the first and I doubt he'll be the last. He is however unable to realise that if he carries on, he risks losing his account on the main site and this offshoot shutting.
Troll is a word that suggests he knows what he's doing. I don't think he's that clever though, and more a like a small kid let loose in a toyshop.

 

[Bromptonaut]

I fully understand why Shaun has let this forum be completely unmoderated. Far too much useful stuff was lost in the previous iteration where moderation erred in the opposite direction. There is, I think, a case for strikes/bans for people who just post sh1t for 'giggles'.

I don't read (eg) CXR's nonsense. Nor that of Mickle.

AS's views are diametrically opposed to my own and seem incomprehensible to me.

But they do at least seem to be the honestly held beliefs of a real person.

 

[briantrumpet]

Problem is that they came on here with the simple aim of causing as much trouble as possible. If that meant posting in every thread on here, he'd do it. Because he could.

Purely and simply because this site is unmoderated, having been banned from CUK and BR for similar behavior. He left once, after the Southport attack attracted prison sentences for posts on social media. Then came back when things quitened down. Old posts on the first account still visible.

He's not the first and I doubt he'll be the last. He is however unable to realise that if he carries on, he risks losing his account on the main site and this offshoot shutting.
Troll is a word that suggests he knows what he's doing. I don't think he's that clever though, and more a like a small kid let loose in a toyshop.

Well, call it learned behaviour then - he's found out what provokes angry responses, and that feeds his ego. He's a toddler who gets the attention of the adults by misbehaving all the time.

 

[secretsqirrel]

My over-romanticised view is of a lost soul who has succumbed to relentless feeding of ultra-processed crap by The Algorithm. Caught in the constant spin and out of touch with reality.

☢️

 

[CXRAndy]

"You left just when you were becoming interesting"

 

[Psamathe]

The problem is that even when they aren't fed, they still keep turning up.

It will take a bit of time but if ignored they will disappear.

Ian

 

[Psamathe]

I used to think that putting some posters on 'ignore' was a bad thing. That I wanted to hear other views.

Now I think it's more like turning off the sound when the TV ads come on; it avoids unpleasant and valueless noise.

The trouble with ignore is it filters out the specific poster but you still get the endless responses from others which is also destroying the forum 'cos guess what, troll posts rubbish and that does not need endless pages of "You are wrong".

Ian

 

[briantrumpet]

The trouble with ignore is it filters out the specific poster but you still get the endless responses from others which is also destroying the forum 'cos guess what, troll posts rubbish and that does not need endless pages of "You are wrong".

Ian

Exactly this. Once or twice I've temporarily 'ignored' otherwise sensible people who feel it necessary to respond to every troll post.