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By spamming, do you mean starting meaningless or bogus threads, so that good or legitimate threads often end up getting pushed back to the 2nd or 3rd page ? I have seen one recent June join, posting a bunch of "Either/Or" opinion threads. Has the appearance of English possibly not being their first language. I dunno.
I'm fairly new here myself, so perhaps I'm not qualified to identify or recognize someone "assuming an alternate or false identity". I am however, noticing a buzz of concern, about alt accounts and hidden agendas.
I happen to be an Admin on a completely different type of forum, and "alt" accounts or pretending to be a different person, are frowned upon and grounds for suspension. I know there are sneaky ways around it, but Admin should have means to check IP addresses or investigate to determine matters of "fraud".
Whether seen as a positive thing or a negative one, this platform appears to allow the most liberty of content that I've ever witnessed online, in terms of censorship.
I suppose given the human condition, there is no way around some measure of drama, no matter where you go.
If "spamming" or "alt accounts" do significantly take away from the user experience, I would hope there is a way to expose, monitor, or prohibit that kind of activity. One user suggested the Ignore feature. Do you think that would mitigate the spamming effect ?
I suspect getting everyone to identify and ignore all the spammers/alts might be challenging as well. I'm afraid the larger demographic does find some entertainment value in the clever, derogatory, foul, trendy, back-n-forth type banter. Maybe despite the objections to the "alt accounts" conundrum, people still take interest, much like stopping to see a car crash pileup, or a burning house. It appeals to the baser instincts.
Peace.
I'm fairly new here myself, so perhaps I'm not qualified to identify or recognize someone "assuming an alternate or false identity". I am however, noticing a buzz of concern, about alt accounts and hidden agendas.
I happen to be an Admin on a completely different type of forum, and "alt" accounts or pretending to be a different person, are frowned upon and grounds for suspension. I know there are sneaky ways around it, but Admin should have means to check IP addresses or investigate to determine matters of "fraud".
Whether seen as a positive thing or a negative one, this platform appears to allow the most liberty of content that I've ever witnessed online, in terms of censorship.
I suppose given the human condition, there is no way around some measure of drama, no matter where you go.
If "spamming" or "alt accounts" do significantly take away from the user experience, I would hope there is a way to expose, monitor, or prohibit that kind of activity. One user suggested the Ignore feature. Do you think that would mitigate the spamming effect ?
I suspect getting everyone to identify and ignore all the spammers/alts might be challenging as well. I'm afraid the larger demographic does find some entertainment value in the clever, derogatory, foul, trendy, back-n-forth type banter. Maybe despite the objections to the "alt accounts" conundrum, people still take interest, much like stopping to see a car crash pileup, or a burning house. It appeals to the baser instincts.
Peace.
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