Ok, what did I miss? Do I have another Youtube video dedicated to me?

Yeah, I'm going to need someone to find me some crazy repellent please. Then I'm going to douse myself in it and make a perimeter around Pinside.

Yeah, my wife sure needs to calm the heck down. I'm going to have a serious talk with her about it just as soon as I get home.

I was just letting Robin get whatever he needed, and honestly it was easier to have him posting under one name that just coming right back under yet another name with more insults. And, even though I am his flavor of choice, I have actually not even gotten the chance to ban him yet because everyone else beats me to the punch.

Plus I was busy getting a sex change.

I'm not signing up to cavity search anyone. Although a sanity test would be nice. Most people on here are wonderful nice people that I'd love to meet in real life and play pinball with. But on the very rare occasions I actually act like a moderator and ban vote someone, they tend to go full-on psycho and target me. I need to be de-magentized or something.

The spam posts are getting numerous, but they don't really bother me because it's just a few clicks to get rid of them for the time being. And if I was a newbie signing up (which I was not too very long ago) then I probably wouldn't join if there was a long wait period, mandatory donation, DNA swab, etc. And lately people have been jumping on the newbies as if they are trolls just because we've been getting so many trolls, which is also probably running them off and sending the wrong message. I know it's hard to not be cautious, cynical, and judgemental when a new person comes on with a question or topic that we've already beaten to death, but let's all try to be nice to the new guys, make them feel welcome, and ignore/report the ones that are indeed trolls.

Nah, my husband is on here too, and he's not nearly as nice as I am. He's a smart ass, I'm sassy but try to stay relatively classy.

Also, why is it odd that a woman would spend time on a pinball forum? I guess it's also odd that I know how to completely shop a pin out and prefer working on them to playing them. Since you've been around 8 hours and posted in a whopping 6 threads, I don't know how you've already found my army of brown-nosers, but you should also keep a lookout for the women here. There's at least 10 active female posters, all great gals, and all able to hold their own with the guys. Any girl in a male-dominated hobby has to know how to, or doesn't last long around here.

Sigh.

(Hi Quiddity. We should probably actually start a girls club around here, but I'm sure it would end up like this thread.)

We'll start a girl's club soon. But not today. Today is kinda weird, and I'm just about to get off work and go have a life.

It's all yours. I quit for the day.

No, ignoring this particular one won't work. Obvious troll accounts aren't always immediately obvious. I baited the "allow women" thread a little to see if he would go off on me, since he just can't help it for some reason. He eventually went off on someone else then created a separate account/thread to tell everyone what he did and tell off the moderators, and when that got closed down he started PMing threats to (at least) me. Despite telling Robin he would stay off the site after being turned into authorities, he is back and creating multiple accounts with an IP-router. He has a few different accounts a few days old here and there, with random posts in random threads. Those are used to jump around to make him seem innocent enough, like a normal new poster would do, so it isn't as immediately obvious as a brand-new-that-day account. He can't eventually help to show his true colors, tell everyone what he is doing because he wants credit for it, and then start telling off mods in a grand meltdown.

Agreed. If nobody engaged them, they would eventually get bored and go away. But not all new and uniformed account members are trolls, and we can't go ignoring or spam banning everyone that has weird questions or that start unusual threads. Most do get ignored until they start popping up on the radar too much and/or having too many reports. A lot does get missed by the mods since there are only about 6 active, but quite a bit does get quietly squashed.

It is hard on the Pinsiders that have been here awhile to not be defensive to new posters because of this, and I know we have lost quite a few new people because of the whole situation. They come in, ask a question that is common knowledge to those on this forum but certainly not to the average person, and then get blasted as a troll and quickly disappear, thinking Pinside is a hateful place. I don't know an easy solution to make us approachable and welcoming to honest new members looking for information and company, yet tough on and ignoring to trolls. I'm certainly willing to listen to anyone's ideas on the matter though.