The reason we keep locking all certain posts is that you all keep dumping negativity into them. The posts would drop if no one responded.
The reason certain people keep posting is that they get responses. It’s the reason we all post - to communicate and get responses.
You all need to stop posting responses in certain threads. Break the cycle. Be the solution.
But the people who bring out the negativity should have some sort of consequence, in my mind. Loleris had what, 8 threads locked? That is a pattern right there.
I really wish we could just ‘break the cycles’ however I do not see that as a likely effective solution. Someone, at some point, will eventually post something that someone, at SOME point, doesn’t like.
[quote] But the people who bring out the negativity should have some sort of consequence, in my mind. Loleris had what, 8 threads locked? That is a pattern right there.
I really wish we could just ‘break the cycles’ however I do not see that as a likely effective solution. Someone, at some point, will eventually post something that someone, at SOME point, doesn’t like. [/quote]
Then you have to understand that ignoring it is your best weapon.
Shouldn’t the problem users be temporarily banned from RbxDev so they quiet down?
A two-day ban calmed down loleris a lot (for a while at least), and I feel that if people started getting temporarily banned for posting non-constructive comments (even I’m at fault for that – I would love a deterrent for me posting non-constructive posts, because at the end of the day, I don’t like being mean), that RbxDev would be a much quieter, happy place. I’ve posted crap like Socrus and David with conveniently censored boxes and a ROBLOX character giving a BJ to slender, and I NEVER got banned for that – that comes as a complete shock to me.
I do agree that ignoring many of these threads is the what needs to be done. However, there will come a time when another user makes a reply and the thread will continue.
With this, I do believe problematic users should be temporary banned from the community. If they continue, then make it permanent. This community used to be full of mature developers who respected one another, and if someone disagreed - they’d throw in a mature counter argument. Lately, everyone is just fighting and causing too much drama. It has gotten to the point where I’m seeing threads be locked daily because they’re getting derailed with negative replies.
I moderated a forum run by a guy who was a very friendly, very lenient, very forgiving guy. By the time he would ban someone, usually everyone in the community would have been ticked off and wanting that ban desperately for a week.
That was how the community died.
People were less careful about the stuff they posted because they knew the admin wasn’t going to say anything to them simply for being rude. And they knew that the moderators wouldn’t want to be stricter than him, either. And over the course of a year, it went from being a pretty good community to a firestorm to a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Yes, ignore bad posts. Yes, report bad posts. Yes, bad posts should get at least a warning. All it takes is a “hey, please don’t do that” to shame some common sense into most people.
We don’t discuss user moderations, so I’m not going to go into it. I was not saying it’s all the community’s fault. There is fault all over the place. We do notice and are discussing it at our Council meeting right now.
This is true. If you can’t come to an agreement with somebody you should just elaborate your point and say you’re finished with the discussion because it is “Going no where” or “We’re not convincing each other of anything”.
Thanks for posting this, Becky. I’ve been thinking of posting something like it but I didn’t feel I had the authority. 
These forums man.
Reese: Guy’s stop the circle of hate.
First couple of replies: Yeah let’s ban loleris.
Jeez.
[quote] These forums man.
Reese: Guy’s stop the circle of hate.
First couple of replies: Yeah let’s ban loleris.
Jeez. [/quote]
Well, this post was 50% loleris and 50% us.
[quote] These forums man.
Reese: Guy’s stop the circle of hate.
First couple of replies: Yeah let’s ban loleris.
Jeez. [/quote]
Well, this post was 50% loleris and 50% us.[/quote]
You’re perpetuating the cycle!
C’mon guys, RBXDev is for mature development discussion, not for slagging off other developers!
(not saying you are dennis, I’m just saying in general)
