Time to Celebrate Chicago posters. (Waukegan: move to, cities, clean)

[oakparkdude]

Originally Posted by Slanderous

Maybe Dementor/Gioobag/Waukegan/GrundyCo will go away if we stop responding to them.

No that won't work either. His modus operandus is to insert his racist posts into random threads.

[BRU67]

Originally Posted by GrundyCo

"Banning" is something for people with a nazi-like mentality. When is the book burning party, NW Indiana?

What happens on unregulated message boards is a sort of a playground bully effect where the intelligent posters all leave and one or two idiots completely take over -- spewing one or two simple messages in various forms and under various screen names, over a span of time comparable to depleting Uranium.

See any one of a number of [domain blocked due to spam] forums for great examples of this. It's far better to have a regulated forum, trust me.

[Mike from back east]

Folks, as soon as any banned people re-appear, do NOT reply to their postings.

Report them early and often.

Complain to the senior moderators, Markablue and Yac, to see if they can find a way to shut down the nonsense.

[Mike from back east]

Originally Posted by NW Indiana rulez

Thanks again, but where can I find Markablue and Yac?

Send them a DM...and tell them that a troll left us a BM.

[eevee]

Originally Posted by NW Indiana rulez

Thanks again, but where can I find Markablue and Yac?

if you go to the main Citydata page where all the forums are listed, scroll all the way down to the "about the forum" section and in that forum there's a thread where you can contact the big boys. lol, or Mike's way may be easier!

[Mike from back east]

Originally Posted by eevee

if you go to the main Citydata page where all the forums are listed, scroll all the way down to the "about the forum" section and in that forum there's a thread where you can contact the big boys

True, but when you use the "report bad post" icon (the triangle with the exclamation mark ! ) it goes into a forum only the mods can see, and a report is immediately sent to the inbox of the mods assigned to that forum. I can report a bad post in the forum I mod and it comes over the wire to my home email inbox within seconds. Use that icon and use it often when a troll starts up in your forums.

As far as sending a DM to markablue or yac, that's for when you want to have a dialog with them. They may be able to help.

[BRU67]

Originally Posted by Opkl

City Data flight. lol

Yup, that's a good analogy actually. Without residents diligently reporting suspicious activity and without good police work, you'll have a forum as unpleasant, illogical and poor as Englewood is as a neighborhood at the end of the day. An intellectual ghetto, my friend.

[BRU67]

Scary thought, isn't it? Well, it's true. May our prayers go out to our mods, who patrol these boards as we sleep

[rockinrolla]

Poor Giobeggar, shunned by the citizens of city-data.




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What's your dog's name, Geo?

[surlycue]

^^Oh those guys. Though, gotta say, that's the first one I've seen over 25 years old. I guess all the youngin ones go back to their parents homes in Barrington come the first chills of autumn.