As a forum user, it is currently too hard to prevent users from causing more problems by replying to obvious trolls who are attention seeking.
If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my experience using the forum because it forces users to think about replying when seeing an obvious troll as well as making the impact of any attack by removing the appearance of attention.
I second this. Part of the reason Iāve stopped using the public area of the devforum because of users that intentionally (or unintentionally) feed the trolls and encourage that kind of behavior.
Things such as devforum.txt (a twitter account that reposts comments made by trolls, along with their replies) only further encourage people to reply and interact with trolls, in the hopes of gaining some clout.
This kind of behaviour should be treated in the same way as the trolls. Interacting with obvious trolls, giving them attention IS trolling by itself.
Also agreeing with the post above, Iām wondering if there is a way that system could autolock threads when the OPās (original poster) messages continually get hidden/the original post gets reported above a certain amount until a moderator has had a look at the thread and action has been carried out (donāt really know which will work/if they will work at all so Im pitching both of them lol)
Agreed. Even though I may have just replied to a troller on his post, I do very much agree and there is a lot of valid points toward this.
There is one but only for individual posts. If a user gets their post flagged too many times after unhiding it, it auto-locks.
considering this post is technically a response to the trollers, letās start with punishing OP 
This is extremely over the top and unnecessary. Why would people have to be punished for replying to troll topics?
I have a few questions:
What if a user doesnāt know they are replying to a troll post? Are they simply going to get whatever punishment simply because they replied?
What if a topic/reply/post of any kind gets incorrectly labled as a troll? Assiming that the punishment thatās given to people who post/reply to troll topics applies to this circumstance, would it be fair?
How is this fair?
This contradicts a statment you made in the same post.
Is it still trolling the the person had no idea or never intended to support the actions of the user? What if the person was telling them what they were doing wrong, would they still get banned?
Mods will not take the time to look through each individual message to see who is and is not intending to troll, especially if the post has been replied to hundreds of times. This is an overkill method that runs the risk of punishing innocent users. Just punish the OP.
Yes, I replied to this topic because I was linked to it. Deal with it. One reply is not representative of usage.
āThis kind of behaviourā implies it was targeted towards intentional interactions.
Nonetheless, someone that constantly falls for trolls probably shouldnāt be on this forum anyways.
I think the bottom line is Roblox needs crack down more on the people who create troll posts. Punishing those who reply just isnāt a good solution.
Trollers are going to troll even if people arenāt replying.
Wether or not you were linked to thisis irrelevant to the conversation and isnāt related to anything I said inmy reply. Also calm down. I didnāt say anything about you replying to much.
Please read my reply thoroughly.
So they should just leave simply because they are gullible? What harm are rhey doing by accidentally replying to a troll?
Then why bring it up?
Please read my reply thoroughly.
Yes, someone that doesnāt learn from their mistakes is not mature enough for this forum.
Perhaps they could be labeled āpossible trollā because sometimes it is hard to determine if one is a troll.
I donāt describe it as unfair. This request looks at intentionally clear trolling. People replying to an obvious troll who has just spammed 800 threads or deliberately posted NSFL content, itās generally clear that this is someone who is attention seeking.
Replying gives attention to these users which actively promote this kind of behaviour. Punish does not equal strike, it may be in line with rule 3.1 on calling out users which is just community feedback. The level of punishment is up to DevRel here, I just find it makes the problem worse and should be dealt with appropriately. Feedback messages exist to warn users of their behaviour for them to change how they react.
I would expect from Roblox that it would take reasonable measures to exclude those did not increase trouble but if there is extremely limited attention given, the benefit given to trolling decreases, itās not to stop it but make doing so receive less feedback which continues the cycle and effectively eggs on the troller.
This is strikable behaviour, this request looks at those who make the problem worse by replying instead of just flagging. This looks at reducing the impact of these attempts. Developers should be developing, not replying to obvious trolls on the DevForum
This looks only at obvious trolls. If someone has just spammed gore on the forums, itās not going to be a question of āare they a trollā.
I mean I would agree on principle. Although I question how effect it would really be.
A simple feedback message is probably the most appropriate punishment, but as we all know, feedback messages donāt deter a good amount of people, evident by all the people that go ācharrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrsā to bypass the character requirement, or start off-topic flame wars, or in general just meme around.
But yes, I would generally agree.
The punishment level is entirely up to DevRel. I would expect it to be in line with similar punishments and be a feedback message.
For those who are repetitive in this behaviour, in line with current guidance it would become strikable.
The way things are implemented are in the end up to devrel.
I donāt think anyone is suggesting a 3-strike permanent ban just for one single reply to one troll. Itās more about detecting consistent behaviour of interaction with obvious trolls, and stopping it.
Because it has nothing to do with this conversation and Iām letting you know about it.
Which one? Your first one or your reply to me? Your reply to me didnāt make any valid arguments and only sounded like I offended you.
What harm does replying to a troll do to the community or to the user who replied? What danger is there that requires them to be removed from the forum?
Wait did that actually happen?
I actually agree with most if this statement. I was just concerned about innocent users being punished and how sever the punishment was. I didnāt know you didnāt have a fixated punishment in mind.
Werenāt you the one that brought it up? It has nothing to do with the conversation, so yes, letās put that aside.
Irresponsibility and inciting trolls.
A few times.
Oh yes. 800 replies to random threads which was just ads for a movie, happened this week. Plenty of NSFW over the many years Iāve been here on the forums.
Feature requests looks at problems and not solutions.
My problem is people replying to trolls, the solution is up to DevRel.