The Trouble with Trolls
Do you all remember the A&S troll? He's gone now, thank goodness. He cost people time, points and created general havoc. But especially damaging was his trolling in the 2012 questions. I bring this up only because I see a lot of "not so nice" and belligerent answers in some of the 2012 questions. Don't set yourself up, guys. Keep your answers "unremovable" in its language. I started just using a copy and paste format that is well within the Y!A guidelines.
What are your ideas and thoughts on this?
Long story short, the "Troll" was someone who had multiple accounts and used them in any way possible to try and suspend the account of anyone with a Top Contributor badge. This went on for a very long time. It was not uncommon to see 5 or 6 thumbs down going down the list of answers to a question. He also used the accounts to falsely report TC's to Yahoo! for abusive answers or answers that violated the guidelines/policies of Y!A. It was a bad time in A&S, but I think Yahoo! finally caught this sicko and terminated all the accounts he was using.
I guess the most disturbing thing I've found out is that Yahoo! did NOTHING about this guy; he simply moved on to another section. I just got an email from one of the other members that confirms this. So there you have it, people. Keep your answers within the Y!A guidelines b/c if he's still out there, then the no-good pig will be back.....(yea, he'll probably find this and I'll get a violation in a couple of months).
Thanks for the comments and info and I appreciate everyone's efforts to make A & S a good, informative section that is nice to participate in.
Do you all remember the A&S troll? He's gone now, thank goodness. He cost people time, points and created general havoc. But especially damaging was his trolling in the 2012 questions. I bring this up only because I see a lot of "not so nice" and belligerent answers in some of the 2012 questions. Don't set yourself up, guys. Keep your answers "unremovable" in its language. I started just using a copy and paste format that is well within the Y!A guidelines.
What are your ideas and thoughts on this?
Long story short, the "Troll" was someone who had multiple accounts and used them in any way possible to try and suspend the account of anyone with a Top Contributor badge. This went on for a very long time. It was not uncommon to see 5 or 6 thumbs down going down the list of answers to a question. He also used the accounts to falsely report TC's to Yahoo! for abusive answers or answers that violated the guidelines/policies of Y!A. It was a bad time in A&S, but I think Yahoo! finally caught this sicko and terminated all the accounts he was using.
I guess the most disturbing thing I've found out is that Yahoo! did NOTHING about this guy; he simply moved on to another section. I just got an email from one of the other members that confirms this. So there you have it, people. Keep your answers within the Y!A guidelines b/c if he's still out there, then the no-good pig will be back.....(yea, he'll probably find this and I'll get a violation in a couple of months).
Thanks for the comments and info and I appreciate everyone's efforts to make A & S a good, informative section that is nice to participate in.