Timeline for We're more aggressively enforcing self-moderation in chat
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| May 14, 2018 at 22:13 | comment | added | Catija | If it's obvious that the room is being targeted, yes... This happens even now... hasn't caused a room to be deleted yet... more often, they get put in gallery mode (permanently or temporarily) and users have to request access to chat at all. Keeps the trolls out and the users don't have to deal with it. | |
| May 14, 2018 at 22:04 | comment | added | WGroleau | And is it a "one-off event" if one or more (censored) runs bots to clutter up a chat room with multiple garbage messages? | |
| May 14, 2018 at 19:59 | comment | added | WGroleau | I wasn't suggesting a bot to cast flags. Flagging requires intelligence, which bots do not have. I was thinking that trolls might write bots to make things messy, trying to get the room deleted. | |
| May 14, 2018 at 17:29 | comment | added | user400654 | You don't really need a bot to cast said flags anyway, anyone can do a search and cast a few out of context flags to restart all the drama. | |
| May 14, 2018 at 12:15 | comment | added | Catija | No. There seems to be this misconception that a one-off event would trigger a room deletion... but this is extremely unlikely. The important thing to take away from this post is that it's about a failure of the users in the room to moderate content by not flagging and not telling people to stop and attacking people who do try to get it to stop. Trolling doesn't really fall in here. If one user is a problem, the user will be dealt with. If the room culture fails to apply "Be Nice", then the room will be deleted. | |
| May 14, 2018 at 11:16 | comment | added | user152859 | Easy enough to track down the bots, find who created them, suspend/nuke their accounts, and reopen the chat room like nothing happened. No different from voting rings and bad sock puppets on the main sites. People can always game the system, the punishment resulting from this keeps them at bay. | |
| May 14, 2018 at 11:06 | history | answered | WGroleau | CC BY-SA 4.0 |