The thing is that a "troll" (in the sense
"controversial") post quickly get replied to,
and even if the original post is moderated away
these replies might themselves be heated an
generate agressive respones.
An idea would be for the moderators to be able to
lift out all replies (not the controversial post itself)
to a certain post and place them in a "Flame-fest"
forum. Everyone replying to the deemed troll-post
will have the replies posted in that forum and will
have to go there to follow the discussion. The
original, controversial post will not have been
modded away (causing dispute on bias etc), but
will be marked with a red text "Controversial post -
replies are moved to Flame Area" or somesuch. An
alternative (perhaps easier to implement) is to have,
instead of moving them, the replies to such a post
only appear if you have that option selected in your
prefs.
Would incur some big changes in the forum code I
suppose though...
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SlimJim
