Stop the trolling in forums. Rate posts?

I don't really know what it's like on the X360 forums since I rarely visit them, but most PS3 forums are full of 12-year old X360 fanboys trolling, which really gets irritating after a while. And most of those topics stay active because other 12-year olds are responding "No, X360 sucks!".

How about making a system to stop that? Rating forum posts and hiding them should work, and I think it's only needed in the system-specific forums. Just make it possible for people to disable the hiding of posts, if thats what they want.

Even with all that, people will abuse the system.

The same trolls that post on the forums will abuse those ratings to drive everyone else down.

what is trooling. i just got warned for it?for saying that madden 08 for pc was a dissapointment?incubus_1_7

From the report, "Intending solely to annoy and/or offend other users."

Even with all that, people will abuse the system.

The same trolls that post on the forums will abuse those ratings to drive everyone else down.G013M

yeah, but the trolls will always be heavily outnumbered (especially on boards of other systems) so I don't think they'll make much of an impact really.

Your best bet is to just report those who are trolling.LTomlinson21

I think the thumbs up/thumbs down thing in the blogs would work here. Enough thumbs down, and like the blog, the forum post is shrinked.Sagacious_Tien

[QUOTE="Sagacious_Tien"]I think the thumbs up/thumbs down thing in the blogs would work here. Enough thumbs down, and like the blog, the forum post is shrinked.fastesttruck

Fuel to a fire? I have seen that already :) Oh wait I'm thinging of the wrong thing >_>

It goes back to the saying of Don't feed the trolls. Don't feed them and they go away after a while :) If you did not get food from your mom and dad would you not leave as well?

I don't really know what it's like on the X360 forums since I rarely visit them, but most PS3 forums are full of 12-year old X360 fanboys trolling, which really gets irritating after a while. And most of those topics stay active because other 12-year olds are responding "No, X360 sucks!".

How about making a system to stop that? Rating forum posts and hiding them should work, and I think it's only needed in the system-specific forums. Just make it possible for people to disable the hiding of posts, if thats what they want.

Calibah

Rating posts will just end up being horribly abused. The best thing you can do with these threads is mark them for moderators to delete them by marking them as "Intending solely to annoy and/or offend other users" aka: trolling.

Why don't people just report trolls? We can do more than discourage them... we can make it so they can't post at all.. :?MAILER_DAEMON

I think that just reporting them would be the best bet.

Voting down posts only address the symptom, not the cause. Those same tolls are free to keep making new posts to be voted down. If you report them when they do it, eventually they'll get suspended or banned.

In addition, I think the comment rating is one of the worst ideas ever implemented here. All it does is reinforce the majority. Posts that are voted down aren't voted down because they're unhelpful or poorly-written, but because they don't agree with the majority. Any idea but the most popular one gets hidden.

Voting down posts only address the symptom, not the cause. Those same tolls are free to keep making new posts to be voted down. If you report them when they do it, eventually they'll get suspended or banned.

In addition, I think the comment rating is one of the worst ideas ever implemented here. All it does is reinforce the majority. Posts that are voted down aren't voted down because they're unhelpful or poorly-written, but because they don't agree with the majority. Any idea but the most popular one gets hidden.

Shifty_Pete

I don't like the rating comments either. All it does is promote fanboyism, as many of the posts that are hidden are simply someone disagreeing with the majority like you've said. I find it funny how when I read articles about Sony doing well and people say "Great news for Sony" in their comment, it has a -5 vote count because people don't like that they supported Sony. It's a bit ridiculous if you ask me.

I'm pretty sure the first one is the snow one, and the second one is the one from the demo, but I have no idea about the others.
This game is gonna own.clank345

Haha, it already flopped. Just save your money and wait for a better PS3 game, assuming the PS3 can have games better than this.kirinfang

yes the game Forums are run by gameFaq's which have differnt Mods. and not that many. That is why GameFaq's is full of Trolls and the like. They need better and more Moderators to fix that issue.fastesttruck

I'd go with Seperate them. GameFaq's is full of trolls all over the place and most of them hate us GameSpot Users. Seperating them would be best IMO. Merging them would make a bigger mess than needed/wanted.fastesttruck

Separating GS and GF again would make virtually every user of both sites dance an e-dance of giddy glee.
MAILER_DAEMON

Yeah, with good reason too. I think something should definitely be done about the whole situation, whether it was seperating or not. The whole situation is a bit all over the place at the moment.