Note: I moved this to the Site Issues forum because that seems to be what the discussion is about. I left a redirect in the original forum so those who want to find it are able to. If the other mods feel it should be moved back, feel free to do so.
Just for you, just this once, Imma explain it for ya, eh, Vinny?
1. I ax Mo a question
2. Kicky comes bustin in, tryin to answer for her
3. He makes some dubious assertions and pronounces some unsupportable conclusions
4. He then "complains" and ends up tellin me I shouldn't be "arguin" when he done started the argument with 2. & 3.
5. When I point out that he's the one who started it, he tells me I shouldn't be talkin to Mo to begin with, but says I should discuss it wit Mo in private messages, if I don't want him buttin in (a complete non sequitur).
In effect, he's complainin that I talked to Mo at all. But, barrin that, he wants to keep it all hid and complains because I didn't talk to Mo privately. Not that such a complaint makes any real sense, but, still....
First of all, I don't think Kicky is/was complaining that you talked to me. And I certainly don't think he was trying to answer for me. He was offering his own opinion, period. I intentionally felt this discussion should be public, and not limited to PM's, because I wanted other mods to feel free to comment and add their input. It's not a unilateral task as you know.
And because the "definition" of trolling is subjective, I thought it might be helpful to have a more open discussion so other posters could also hopefully have a better understanding of how the mods look at things. The more everyone understands the rules, the better the experience is for all of us.
If you want some sort of explanation of why repeated posts interfere with the readability of the board, I'll offer one:
Posters have the option of putting other posters on ignore when they find his/her posts to be objectionable and they don't want to see them. OK, fine, so far so good. But when a poster who is on my ignore list, makes repeated consecutive posts, it makes it really difficult for me to follow what others have posted in the thread. In other words, even though the poster is on ignore, his/her manner of posting is still making the board difficult to read. OR, even if a poster is not on my official "ignore" list, but I generally try and skip over his/her posts because they annoy me, it makes it much more difficult to follow the thread if there are numerous consecutive posts by that person, and I'm trying to skip over them.
Finally, I think there are any number of comments by other posters that are highly inappropriate and violate any number of the rules of the forum.
