RE: In A World Of Mad Trolls, Choose To Be The Person They'd Love To Be
Hey @surfermarly
You know what I think? Since the goings on during the middle part of the year, your blogs have just gotten better and better. It's like, during your downtime, you had space to think and were like 'right, I'll show them!'
Seriously, on another level recently!
Thank you for just another episode in the '@surfermarly Steemit consciousness raiser postathon' :D
For many years, I spent a lot of my time on a video chat program. 1000s of users a day would visit a room I was a 'friend', 'moderator', and 'owner' in over 5/6 years. The tools we had there to keep the peace / manage the trolls and haters were much more flexible than what we have here on the Steem Blockchain, via Steemit (and the other tools).
A warning message in a private message (the most subtle)
A warning message in the room (not on the microphone)
A microphone block - 'new topic please' (you are saying something out of order)
A kick with message - That isn't cool here
A 'punish' with message - a 3 day ban with a reason
A ban - For crimes we didn't allow at all
Users could be educated in private, or just wiped off the program in the worst cases.
Here we can ignore/educate/mock/flame/flag. There's really only 1 'action' button, 'Ignore' isn't clever enough to hide all of a users entries (comments)
It's a personal choice on what you choose to do, and personally I'm flitting between the first 4 and always aiming for the first 2.
Stay awesome and have a super weekend! :D
Oh Asher, thank you so much for your lovely intro!
Maybe it pushed me. Now thinking about it, you may be right :-) The reason for my downtime was another troll. So everything happens for a reason I guess.
That's a great inside and huge help!
And you are aboslutely right: here on steemit we don't have so many tools. The mute button doesn't solve anything. It's like closing your eyes in real life and saying: The problem is gone. That's a bit childish.
Usually I use the private chats to get in contact with people (your no. 1). In the last case I sent a memo with a warning. By now it seems that it helped. The person didn't show up again.
It would be nice having a group of whales who volunteered for helping out in emergency cases. A flag from such a group might have the needed impact. We have so many curation guilds but not only one group of troll hunters. People group for everything her on steemit, why not to protect people from these type of attacks. I guess @steemcleaners have enough to do with their tasks.
Anyways, I will go surfing now and not think only one second about that shit! Haha
Big hugs and enjoy your weekend, too!
It,s always a huge pleasure talking to you :-)