Forum:Chat - ideas against trolls

Here is the discussion about chat, where we can come up with ideas on how to prevent invations and trolls!

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I know I'm not supposed to bring chat related issues to you but I remember you telling Mia (66mc) that we couldn't kick unless they broke rules.

So today we had about 4 trolls, all talking weirdly and being extremely irritating (I know we can kick for that but what they were doing we couldn't) so eventually we banned one for linking to an inappropriate website, and kicked the others for being inappropriate.

So Anna and I were wondering. I know this has been turned down before but having a certain amount of edits before being allowed on chat? We think it would decrease the amount of trolls. We were also thinking about 5. And I myself was thinking if they didnt get the 5 edits required to come on chat, in a certain amount of time they would be kicked until they made said amount of edits, because they used to do that over at HGRP and I think it would be a good idea here considering we get a lot of trolls.

Thanks

♥ Welcome to a world where dreams become nightmares ♥ 15:54, May 4, 2013 (UTC)

In my opinion, I feel like we shouldn't have an edit rule but a rule where it allows us mods to kick obvious trolls freely.

[http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/User:Lily! I do not have ] [http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:Lily! a gentle heart ] [http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Editcount/Lily! -Daenerys Targaryen ] 15:57, May 4, 2013 (UTC)

I agree with Lily, we talked about this before and I really think it takes away from the experience. People will jut make stupid edits, and we cant stop people coming on chat for having 5 bad edits, it just has to be 5 edits. Commenting on 1 game, then editing it 4 more time is not hard. Trolls may just do things like that to get in, and it willr educe the overall quality of edits.

Doo Doo[http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:The_Boy_With_The_Pikachu_Tattoo  Doo Doo..... ] 15:59, May 4, 2013 (UTC)

They wouldn't be allowed to make spam edits. Like editing and removing or commenting and editing. As long as it's not a spam edit and it was a useful comment, a message, a file or a profile edit it would be allowed.

♥ Welcome to a world where dreams become nightmares ♥ 16:01, May 4, 2013 (UTC)

I argee but people can fluff edits, by fluff edits i mean they will spam to get more MS or anytype of edits. Emma :3 talk  16:03, May 4, 2013 (UTC)

I would agree on this. I just think it makes the wiki seem really unproffessional to newer users when they log on and find us invaded by a bunch of users who purposely annoy but does not break the rules any other way.

I do know that people could technically just edit their profile five times in a row but I think that this rule could just decrease the amount of trolls a little bit. We seem to have gotten more lately. They're on chat and will annoy, but just keep themself barely within the rules so that we can't kick.

However if we do accept this rule, we should at least have some guidelines for it. For example, we shouldn't kick them immediatly, we should rather tell the users with 0 edits that we got a 5 edits rule. Then if they don't we kick.

Lily's suggestion could be good too, but I do fear that mods may assume about users too quickly. But anyway this is just a suggestion. It not that we HAVE To user any of these rules it's just more like trying to get a way to reduse trolls.

Also, maybe a new idea could be to instead make a "one day" rule? That you have to have an account that is one day old? This would make it difficult for people who make multiple account to just spam chat. This is just a suggestion, btw xD

[http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/User:Annamisasa The world is a series of problems. Now, are gonna moan or actually solve them?] (talk) 16:09, May 4, 2013 (UTC)