Can we please stop forcing me to block people just because I report their behavior?

@LeopoldBloom Yes, and they've told me it's led to fewer conflicts between users. But that's not true at all. It's just a lazy way of sweeping it under the rug so they don't have to be bothered with it, and these career trolls just keep on going.

@Diotrephes Freedom of speech is always limited on a website like this. Did you read the terms of service when you agreed to them? You should have.

@LordShadowfire
Of course I try to abide by the rules. However, if I could run a forum and the platform I would allow all viewpoints to be freely expresed, whatever the topic. As I said, everything is historical.

This forum is actually very liberal when it comes to allowing people to express their opinions. Lots of others will ban people when they dare take even a minor step off of the approved line.

@LordShadowfire Why would you want to show a pattern across posts? You already know what you need to know.

Just do what you would if was a offline encounter.

@WintaTheAngle It's not about what I want to know. It's what I'm trying to express.

If I were the owner of this website, and someone was consistently causing problems over the course of numerous posts, in both their own posts and others, I'd want to know that. And if this person was a serious enough problem, I'd want to remove them. This is in part because I watched the demise of Yahoo Answers, whose owners didn't take it that seriously and allowed people to come back with new accounts over and over and over.

But the problem is proving that someone is a consistent troublemaker. If I go in and find a ton of, for example, Naziesque references to "unaliving" all of a certain ethnic group, but it's spread out over 10 or 12 posts, and reporting what the person says on one single post creates a block, it's harder to show the admins why this person should simply be removed. As such, they see a single reference to it and think it's an isolated incident.

I understand. I’ve seen encountered admins handing out punishment for insults used in the heat of the moment, while at the same time ignoring people making an argument for pedophilia.

The problem is it’s their site, their rules and there’s very little can be done about it. Should we walk away the site would still get sufficient footfall to keep going. Look at how many people walked away from the site during the pandemic because of the disgusting content about the deaths if people based on their politics and their vaccine choices. Nothing happened. Thie site just carried on.

@CestManan This is true. And that's part of what frustrates me about the forced blocking. Because I'm willing to put in the work making a case that a person is just a chronic problem child, but the admins don't want to hear it.

@LordShadowfire They probably get a lot of reports daily. Maybe their little AI handles some of it but AI is only so "smart".

@CestManan They should hire more admins. But that's just my opinion, though. I'm not privy to their financial statements to know whether that's feasible.

@Fishy It's more likely to happen when you report for the more serious offenses like hate speech.

@LordShadowfire Or if you report the same person a few times, it happens. 😒

@Magenta Yeah. It's like they don't want to know.