What some people consider to be a "problem" might not be considered a "problem" by others.

Inevitably there will always be some whiners who think they know what's best for everyone and will cry like beeotches when they don't get their way. That's what's wrong with this world. There are too many people who are not content to just be able to control their own lives. They feel they know what's best for all of us and when they don't get their way become the most vocal of the bunch. Really those are the ones who should self-purge and just walk away from the forum if it upsets them that much. Everyone will be better-off in the end.

I get pissed off on forums sometimes too and just take a break for a while. I don't block anyone though.

Good idea! And you would have option of putting the non-moderator account on your ignore list.

I'm not talking about them….only the assholes…

Actually Ted, you are wrong. The health of the site is not my concern, that is the job of Robin and the mods. I've learned that there is nothing I can do to help the health of the site, and at times in the past, I've actually been part of the problem because I disagreed with some of the assholes that participate on this site. We have all made suggestions to try to help correct the problems, but really nothing is going to happen. There is no panacea for this problem, so I'm taking the more personal view of it. I've executed my purge. I now have a very different view of Pinside, and it's better.

So now I'd like the feature that if someone quotes an ignored user in a post, that post is automatically comes up ignored as well (not the person quoting, just that entire post). Currently it puts ignored post in the quoted area, but I'd prefer the whole post go away because it's probably someone offended by the post, and I don't care.

And sorry for the reverse of direction. I always thought using ignore was for pu$$es. But now I'm preaching it as sticking your finger down your own throat (self purging).

got ya

But what's healthy to one person is cancerous to another!

Anyways, who cares. Either the so-called purge will happen, and we'll all either be vainglorious or martyrs, or nothing will happen, Pinside will keep keeping on, and so forth. To keep speculating on it seems a little too gossip-y and concerned with status for my liking.

I think the feature suggestion of automatically having an entire post ignored if it contains a quote from someone you are ignoring will handle it. It ignores the person you are ignoring, plus the people bickering with their Tom Foolery.

"baby with the bath water..." kind of situation though. Posts often include content from more than one poster. If you can tell they are engaging with an ignored user, then you can decide to dismiss the whole conversation or just parts of it. If it's all hidden, you have no choice.

It's about time
I'm probably next after you d'oh

I don't like the idea of deleting someone's post along with the quoted post too. Please only filter the people I have asked to filter. Maybe the person who is quoting someone from my bozo bin is doing so to slam them? The enemy of my enemy is my friend! If they are agreeing with that bozo, then I might decide to put them in the bozo bin also, but I want that to be my choice.

Not really, because it would be the users choice. Right now there are two options listed.

IMG_0178 (resized).PNG

I'm suggesting a third and fourth option on this feature.

They would both be child options that would be the same but apply to posts where the ignored user was quoted. You, on the other hand, don't have to see any impact. It wouldn't change a thing in the way you view Pinside, just users that chose the option.

Don't look at the light!

IMG_0405 (resized).JPG

Anyone notice anybody missing yet

It's like we're waiting for the rapture.

rapturebomb1 (resized).jpeg

rapturebomb2 (resized).jpeg

Would you have kicked Jody out of the group...come on everybody liked her eventually lol

titlecard12-ytv-wherearetheynow-factsoflife-jpg_203702 (resized).jpg

Post 866-869 are missing did someone forget to be nice

Yes they did.

I just can't seem to find myself.

Might as well be yourself!....everybody else is taken!

Tick...tock...tick...tock...

CDown (resized).jpg

Actually "In the year 2525" is playing in mine.

Nope. Louis Cole is

Just watched....what the hell is that???????

I was actually listening to Wait and Bleed from Slipknot...so a little different, but still ironic given the thread.

This guy is a musician on the verge of getting big.

Just posted that as a counter to your Europe thing, to push it out of my brain

Anybody know when th

Has this happened? If so it didn't get the worst trolls. I still am seeing tons of "ignored user" posts and all of the people who feed the trolls with responses. With Kanada gone, I only have two users in my ignore file. They sure are busy.

Speaking of which I do want to repeat my statement from way back in this thread that maybe a good compromise would be to throttle certain users to a few posts a day. That would eliminate a lot of trolling and stream-of-consciousness posts. Also, another good compromise would be to use thread ejects more liberally. The offenders seem to gravitate to certain threads to be stupid in and meanwhile they can be harmless or even helpful in other threads.

That, or perhaps "1 reply per day per thread" or something for the problem users, because I agree it's not fun to wade through a thread and endless back and forth when no one can let the other person have the last word.

Have you ever gone to a store like Walmart or Target? The checkout line has those shelves with candy, toys, etc. on it to get the attention of kids. Sometimes, I will be waiting in line and there will be a kid in front of me that sees one of these toys. "I want this mommy" "No, Bobby, you can't have it" "But I want it" "No it will just break" "I want it!!" Back and forth they go, just like the scene in Willy Wonka until the mom eventually wears down "OK, you can have it" I always wondered what these kids turned into as adults. Having been 'taught' that getting one's way was simply a matter of how often and how loud you said something. Alas, my childhood was different. 'Can I please have this mom?" "No". If I felt brave enough to ask again, there was no response from my mom, just one of those looks only a parent can give. There was no need for further clarification.

'Nuff said?

There is no spo....I mean purge.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pinside-staff-announcement-please-read#post-3614653

Your attitude that you somehow think you are better than others and constantly feel the need to repeat yourself over and over again makes you IMO the biggest troll of them all.

Finally!

Boo.

I hope this also includes getting rid of the "troll hunters" that are not moderators or members of the pinside team, but are constantly attacking other members on here calling them trolls. ie "broken record".

Well once all of us troublemakers have gotten the boot, they'll turn on each other. That should be fun to watch!

I got a thread eject this AM for responding to one of these "troll hunters" but I deleted the message so fast, I didn't see if it was purge warning or not. lol.

Oh well...

You should have brought up oysters.

We should do a pilot test of this with a certain group of users. Let's go with.. users who have ",WI" in their location.

I'm curious of the # of purge warnings that went out, although I doubt that # will be shared.

But it made me wonder. Was it 3... or 5.. or 10? I doubt it would be much more than 10, and then I thought, wow... 10 people out of daily usage of 4,219 (last 24 hours usage) contaminating the site disproportionately. That's 0.23%, and not even all those will be actually purged, they've only been warned.

If the site could be noticeably improved by purging 1/4 of 1% of active users, then have at it, imo.

OK, I'm getting the message. Permanent ejects from multiple threads in the last hour with no response to the moderator feedback thread I started. I can take a hint. Have fun people!

Keep in mind, the handful of us troublemakers are probably filling their inboxes with variations on an "are you serious?!?" theme. So our feedback threads might go unanswered for a bit.

They're probably overwhelmed with reaction to the initial letters right now.