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#1   09-16-2008, 10:02 AM
Soliloquy is a jewel in the rough Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: New York City
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Is Miserable Users for wusses?


I fortunately don't usually have behavioral problems on my forum, but occasionally we'll get an influx of trolls. I've used Miserable Users on occasion when a new member would start acting like a troll but still skirt the rules, and when I recently taught a new admin how to use it he opined that he thought it was too passive-aggressive, and he'd rather ban someone outright. I can see his point, but at the same time think sometimes it's better to use kid gloves then start a public confrontation. What do you think?
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#2   09-18-2008, 03:14 AM
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Re: Is Miserable Users for wusses?


Maybe it's for wussies, I don't think it's very forthcoming that's for sure. ;)

On my board we have a read only user group that is the trolls who skirt the rules get placed in there and they can read all the forums and private message but cannot reply on the boards. We send a PM to them to let them know what's up.
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#3   09-18-2008, 11:16 AM
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hmm, is there any way for them to "get out of jail" once they're in that usergroup?
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#4   09-19-2008, 11:44 AM
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Re: Is Miserable Users for wusses?


Theoretically yes. If two or more members are going back and fourth with each other wreaking havoc on the boards we'll put them in that user group until we decide if we're going to hand out infractions.

There are a couple of members which are in there permanently because they don't know how to do anything but troll.
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#5   09-20-2008, 03:22 PM
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Re: Is Miserable Users for wusses?


Can they send private messages? If they were behaving badly in public I'd worry they'd send nasty pm's in response to threads they couldn't answer publicly.
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#6   09-22-2008, 06:06 AM
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i would hope PM's were denied, that could spawn a bad situation. i never really use miserable user, i have used tachy a few times though, that really messes post and threads up though...
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#7   09-22-2008, 10:58 AM
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exactly my fear, Caddy. And I don't use tachy for the same reason.
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#8   09-22-2008, 05:09 PM
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it was really strange and not very many people have this problem, i searched, i had to rebuild thread info a lot when it was on
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#9   09-22-2008, 05:27 PM
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Re: Is Miserable Users for wusses?


was that the problem you had where you couldn't get to the second page of threads?
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#10   09-22-2008, 05:33 PM
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Re: Is Miserable Users for wusses?


if a post made by global silent member went to the next page, thread broke

if user make a thead, people saw it, then they click it and get a invalid thread error.
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