Question No Drama Queen or Meh?

Meh...

 

It appears I've entered a different dimension...

 

Now we have anonymous to troll with!

 

Not really, if it is abused it will go away again.

 

Bah! Humbug!

 

punishing the userbase at large rather than the people that 'abuse' things has always seemed back assward to me.

 

Well the first step of course is deal with a individual first. But if many many abuse it, then of course the only action is to remove it, to save the staff time on dealing with it.

 

Taking away a "Drama Queen" and "Meh" post rating is a form of punishment?

 

i was referring to the warning that anonymous posting would be taken away if it was 'abused' (whatever that means). but sure, you can throw former post ratings in there as well. taking away features that many people like simply because you dont like the way some people use them is indeed akin to punishment.

 

Ahh, I thought you meant the post ratings and I sort of got the picture in my head of it being like punishing a sadist by taking away their whip.

Anonymous posting is most likely going to stay though, if it starts getting abused then we will start dealing with those who abuse it rather than just taking it away. It's sort of hard to do that with ratings however, especially when they're ratings that are perceived as "negative" to begin with.

 

I think the drama queen rating is a bit insulting. Not so much to the person it is used on but adults using a phrase like 'drama queen' just sounds rather juvenile.

I do think bring Meh back is something that isn't that bad. Meh is not any worse than disagreeing with someone.

 

the same can be said of other ratings as well.

 

So, you aren't worried at all about the abuse of anonymous posting, but yet you are worried about the abuse of meh or drama queen post ratings, and so they get removed, but anonymous posting stays? I don't get it.



Scott

 

Anonymous posting is able to be monitored. We can easily see whose posted the post and if there is an issue, it can be dealt with. There also, have been no harassment issues within the feature and I doubt there will be any.

Those specific post ratings on the other hand were used to an extreme to upset, and harass other members. Therefore, the situation dealt with accordingly. If problems occur with the anonymous posting across the board, we will do the same.

 

Ok, I don't read all posts here, but I never noticed this "extreme" abuse. And certainly, if someone was complaining about someone else extremely abusing the ratings, there could be policies, methods and practices to warn and/ or punish the abuser too.

Scott

 

There were acts of moderation done over the post ratings, as for warnings those were sent as well..but believe it or not, forum admins don't generally take to warnings much. Overtime it just got pointless to moderate globally... so it's been secluded to specific areas we feel fit best.