META - Anyone else having trouble with a ridiculous number of troll accounts?
This has really gotten out of hand. The last three days alone has seen RollaFatty, Too Busy, and a number of other super new accounts that are here for one reason alone: trolling the board and calling out specific board members. I know the mods have a really difficult time with all the content, but other than adding morons to the mod action sticky, not feeding them and downvoting the hell out of these idiots, is there anything that can be done behind the scenes to ban IP's, etc... It's getting out of hand.
Instead of losing work productivity to football content, snark and humor, I am now forced to wade through this shit. Any thoughts from the smarter tech crowd. I miss my MGoBlog.
December 12th, 2017 at 2:26 PM ^
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December 12th, 2017 at 3:14 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 2:21 PM ^
Limiting new account signups to certain times of year/a few days a month/some other idea my addled mind can't think of right now might be a good idea?
December 12th, 2017 at 2:21 PM ^
The last two days in particular have been....well....
In all seriousness though, I would submit to more stringent account setup criteria in a minute, especially since you can clearly fudge things like e-mail address and other items. I like the idea of needing a phone number which can be verified, as someone mentioned above. You could at least associate the number with a habitual offender.
December 12th, 2017 at 2:26 PM ^
LSA, I imagine you probably have more important things to do all day long (work, although I am clearly being productive right now at my job) than peruse the board for asshats. The mod action sticky works in time, but some of these new users are pretty awful and should get the banhammer immediately (i.e. the dude dropping the n-bomb all over the place yesterday). Thanks for the efforts, I am sure MGoBlog is paying you handsomely!
December 12th, 2017 at 2:29 PM ^
And I missed it?!?! Damnit all. All the cool stuff happens when I'm not around.
December 12th, 2017 at 2:34 PM ^
Hooker orgies on piles of money in the bank vault or reading troll posts on MGoBlog...decisions decisions....
December 12th, 2017 at 2:37 PM ^
I am picturing his avatar in a bank vault loaded with cocaine, dough and women... Interesting imagery.
December 12th, 2017 at 3:37 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 7:59 PM ^
Whattttt, I thought it was the homeless men he pays to strangle him in the shower???
/asking for a friend
December 12th, 2017 at 3:34 PM ^
Hookers? So alledgedly Craig James came in here and killed 5 hookers and started calling everyone the N word? Dman, I missed it too.
December 12th, 2017 at 2:37 PM ^
What does Rainbow Dash have to do with this?
December 12th, 2017 at 2:40 PM ^
LSA is a huge fan of My Little Pony.
December 12th, 2017 at 3:21 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 3:31 PM ^
I'm a hit with my daughters and their friends. Being called "Cool Brony Dad" is a lot better than "Creepy Weird Old Guy".
December 12th, 2017 at 4:15 PM ^
My four year old son plays with his 7 year old sister's my little ponies, I don't know what to do.....
December 12th, 2017 at 4:21 PM ^
He still likes trucks and dinosaurs and all that other stuff, so I just call it being a well-rounded kid.
December 12th, 2017 at 2:25 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 2:26 PM ^
Huh, I thought you got banned yesterday. Damn.
December 12th, 2017 at 3:10 PM ^
as does his point total.
December 12th, 2017 at 2:25 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 2:25 PM ^
Is this one of those stings where they post something about trolls to get them all to post and once they are rounded up we ban them? If so, cool!!!
Ok, ok, everyone quiet now and wait for the trolls to show up. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh....
December 12th, 2017 at 2:28 PM ^
Dude, you got me, but why did you let the secret out?!
December 12th, 2017 at 2:58 PM ^
all trolls please report to LSA to receive your welcome to the blog gift: a new boat!
December 12th, 2017 at 5:42 PM ^
i'm holding out for a My Little Pony tchotchke
December 12th, 2017 at 2:37 PM ^
I really don't get trolls, but I am all for doing something about them. Here here!!
And FTR, there are some people who have the 1 million negative points who aren't really trolls. They just were too exuberant in their anger about Michigan's loss (unacceptable!! Fire Harbaugh!! Things must change!! This is Michigan!! . . . . all that crap.)
December 12th, 2017 at 3:03 PM ^
Gotta pay the troll toll to get into this boy's hole.
December 12th, 2017 at 2:45 PM ^
Wanna stop the bullshit? Dox any user who decides to create a troll account like the onslaught we've had recently. Get the phone number and do a text verification to have a profile and if people go after users like some asshole has been doing with WD recently post the fucking thing for all to see.
That would stop the problem dead in its tracks.
December 12th, 2017 at 2:47 PM ^
I don't mind one good troll like McFarlin, but these trolls these days are far too many and not even amusing.
December 12th, 2017 at 2:51 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 3:14 PM ^
Buckeye and Sparty trolls on Mlive. Some of them sound like 6th graders (or people with equivalent levels of knowledge and maturity) I've stopped even reading the comments anymore.
December 12th, 2017 at 7:57 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 3:03 PM ^
I don't think it is going to stop any time soon, unfortunately. The OSU game and aftermath have given a whole new vibe to the Board.
December 12th, 2017 at 3:32 PM ^
Add a one week wait time to the 100 point limit for new posts.
December 12th, 2017 at 3:42 PM ^
I'd say 1000 points and 1 year...
December 12th, 2017 at 3:48 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 4:29 PM ^
No, all my troll accounts seem to be ok, thanks for asking .
December 12th, 2017 at 5:33 PM ^
A feature that would lock out a user if over 10 negative points in a single post and a moderator would have to "release" or "ban" that account.
December 12th, 2017 at 5:49 PM ^
sounds vaguely familiar to the mana function on the liveblog
December 12th, 2017 at 5:56 PM ^
It would limit unreasoned emotional hot takes. I used to be a moderator on a few other sites. We had tools to limit spam, new account nonsense. This is a different type of site. Thankless job moderating.
December 12th, 2017 at 6:24 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 9:42 PM ^