Author: Jürgen Ecker
Date: 23:09:32 12/27/05
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On December 27, 2005 at 14:04:11, Stuart Cracraft wrote: >On December 27, 2005 at 00:51:50, Jürgen Ecker wrote: > >>Hi Stuart, >> >>the vBulletin sorts the most recently replied thread by default to the top, so >>the newest and current thread is always the first you see. I think this is a >>good feature, because you see very fast what's the current discussion at the >>board. You also mustn't search for the current discussion. >>But there is also a hack for sorting the threads in other ways, like the date of >>the threadbeginning. So it will be represented like in the CCC. >> >>Of course there is the problem, that some users will try to bump their threads >>to the top, but this will be an issue for moderation. I would handle it in a way >>of warning this user. If a user has an specified level of warning he will be >>baned for some time or forever. >> >>The troll problem can be solved by the 'global ignore user'-function. This works >>like this: the troll posts and his posting will be seen by himself, but not by >>the other users, so they can't and won't reply on his posting. After several >>times he will mention, that his posting are not interesting and he will go away. >> >>Jürgen Ecker >> >>>Jürgen, >>> >>>Does vBulletin push the most-recently replied-to thread to the top of >>>the physical screen? >>> >>>Stuart > >I do like the push-recent-to-top but perhaps an anti-troll feature would >be to push-most-heavily-posted-recently to top? That way trolls couldn't >get the delight of pushing any thread to the top. They'd have to overpost >on a single thread and that would reveal their true troll-like nature. > >So say a thread has 30 posts already. A post to it would increase it by >3.33%. Let's say the threshold is 10%. So actually 3 posts within a period >of N would be required for it to push to the top. > >One thought... > >Greetings, > >Stuart Hi Stuart, your thought it quite interesting, but I never saw such a function for boards. I moderated some boards over the years and in my opinion the best way against trolls are clear boardrules AND the consistent use of the rules by the moderators. Of course in modern boards there are technical opportunities to ban a troll, like baning by IP-Number or username and also the 'global ignore user'-function. You've got also the possibility to close the thread, so nobody could answer the troll-thread and the most boards now have something like a warning-system and a system with which the user can rate the thread and the users. I think that's enough for troll-protection and I would not recommend to much hacking a boardscript, because of security-issues and it's a lot of work upgrading the script. And regular updating is very important for preventing the website against hackers. Jürgen Ecker
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