We are solving these problems at - https://district.so. Dealing with trolls can be draining and it's a plague for a good community. We working on solving that.
@bredren Would you want to lead /Portland District?
The real problem with practically every internet community is its moderation, because the worst people with the least business doing that job inevitably float to the top and are then impossible to dislodge without voting with your feet and creating an entire new community.
>> I've thought a lot over the last couple years about the problem of trolls. It's an old one, as old as forums, but we're still just learning what the causes are and how to address them.
That's crazy. We still don't know what causes Trolls?
This concept is a troll haven. Politically motivated trolls have become a rampant problem online. I think they are the single biggest obstacle to the progress social media (in the broadest definition, which includes this project here) can effect towards non-partisan goals like empathy and factuality. How will you deal with this issue?
if you have a core group which is caring about the health of the community then you might have not this problem. but if the community gets overuned by trolls the admin should take some steps to prevent it. (kick the trolls, close registration temporaly, etc.) (sorry, if my english is broken. i'm a german guy)
It's less a problem of "getting rid" of trolls and more a case of giving people control over them instead of it being such a one-sided deal where trolls get to dictate where, when and how you can socialize.
If people feel like they have tools to push back against trolls they'll use them. If they feel like they're powerless, they'll leave. If they leave the troll to user ratio skews a bit higher and might end up poisoning the entire community.
Fixing the system is hard while harassing a troll is a lot easier. This might lead to avoiding fixing the system altogether -- once people realize how hard it us, both technically and politically, they might stop at beating the troll solution as "good enough for now".
@bredren Would you want to lead /Portland District?
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