Troll Control

Probably my first post can be sent to “I'm crazy” or something else, for example, in / dev / null - it's up to you.

... introduction is already there ...





Hello,

I have been moderating a lot of years for one of many forums and I know that moderators often and very often have to deal with trolls. In principle, it is not troublesome, sometimes even bans to distribute fun ... But as if the relief from closing the trolling traffic was not pleasant, some threads can enrage and strain your customers, and not only until the closing of the thread, but after that ... People say: Trolling protection is a policy to ignore a troll. ” Yes, fair, but this is passive protection. You can't even call it a defense, such a “defense” so much and put it on the user's shoulders ... And what if the forum is thematic? Trolls for fun (or just to order) can drive your customers away from your own site. Sadly ... So, I have an idea - just an idea, for its implementation, I still do not have proper time resources, unfortunately. I just share an idea where it can be picked up, applied or pointed out to its uselessness.





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We come out of the idea that thematic forums and trolls are thematic, well, at least I have not met on the site needlewomen trolls "anti-linuksoidov", this is understandable - so doing "not interesting." So what's the idea - to write a plugin for the forum (I tied it to the forums? You can do it for blogs and news feeds and try anything for anything. For convenience, I will continue to attach to the forum). So: a plugin for the forum that will send the trolls to the “invisible sandbox” and actively feed them there. Yes, precisely feed. For example, a moderator (or a user with the "complaint" button) sends the troll to a kind of sandbox. I wrote to the "invisible sandbox" because the idea is that the troll does not notice that it is in the sandbox - the forum bot continues to feed the troll with answers from its base (for example, we sharpen the base under the subject that can be tracked in this particular forum). The troll sees its answers and “the answers of the members of the forum” (the user who allegedly answered can be changed randomly). For a troll, everything goes "as it should," but the members of the forum do not see either a troll or a fake thread. those. we ourselves will start troll troll. In principle, by the fact that trolls rarely read the messages of opponents, the bot-antiroll should not be very “smart”, rather standard responses to it load, even answers “in the cold”, in the style of trolls can go.

-A basis for dialogs can be parsed both from your own forum and from forums with similar topics.

I think that if the trolls overfeed, some of them will find other ways of "expressing themselves", others (most likely paid for) will find a way to detect this protection and become more intelligent (as if trolling will turn into a more or less reasonable dispute, probably).





Yes, I wanted to write “do not judge strictly - this is my first post”, but as I understand it, it is not necessary to write like that in the first post, although it seems to be a tradition =)



To whom it is interesting - I propose to discuss the effectiveness of such protection, and in general methods of protection against trolls (my idea may not be original, but I heard only about “pre-moderation” and ignore, as methods of protection).

Thanks for attention.