Spam/Nuisance Posts
Mon, 7 July 2008, 12:26 pmjeffhansen24 posts in thread
Spam/Nuisance Posts
Mon, 7 July 2008, 12:26 pmThis is an open post to the administrator of the site.
This site used to be a valuable tool for those of us in the theatre community to find useful information
and share our thoughts with others.
Of late, it has become a bitchfest.
I would like to see posts retricted to signed up and verified members only.
While this wouldn't stop completely the post hijacking that is currently destroying this site,
it would mean that you would need to take the time to sign up a membership, which could subsequently
be revoked if site rules are abused.
Obviously this is not a panacea, but I think will help this site grow.
I'm fed up with the crap!
Jeff
We've already had this
Mon, 7 July 2008, 01:33 pmWe've already had this conversation. Labrug even posted a poll about restricting posts to registered members.
A number of the comments made was that restricting it to registered members would perhaps reduce the amount of 'crap', but wouldn't get rid of it altogether. And in fact, if you paid attention to my scammer notice a few days ago, you would see that registering is by no means a way of detering bad users from doing bad things.
We're all sick of the 'crap', but there's a huge issue of both freedom of speech/censorship, and the concept that what is a good post to one person isn't to another and vice versa.
I'm all for more intelligent conversation mind, just that I don't think anything will counteract trolls and the like. They exist on every forum and every blog - they're just the virtual version of bored kids egging a house.
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