I have put the test message back on exGoper's thread:
See post number 3 on this thread:
https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/strange-ideas-of-neoreactionaries.367451/
It's a well-known glitch with the ignore/block that essentially makes the ignore/block
useless.
I use to complain about it but was given a cold treatment as if I didn't know what I was talking about.
Next, a few other members and I decided to ignore/block each other and all five of us were able to determine how other members have been navigating around the ignore/block considering several well-known trolls here at ET seem to be experts at navigating around that glitch.
- We would be on the telephone talking to each and posting at ET to try to figure out how others were navigating around our ignore/block in our own threads...we came to a conclusion it's just a glitch...a glitch that should be fixed.
The trolling got so bad...I was complaining a lot to ET management without the trolls being told to stop and without them being given a public warning to stop...I was forced to ask ET management to close one of my threads to keep the trolls that I had on ignore/block from posting in my thread.
Unfortunately, that enrages some trolls and they then just go look for you in threads you're posting that were started by someone else.
- The threads in question were not in the Political section and I have a strong opinion that trolling should not be allowed in other threads..."outside" of the Political section.
Strangely, I've seen ET management
ban someone from another member's thread upon that member's request even though the members did not have each other on ignore/block. Just as odd, the member's in question can reply (quote) to each other in another thread but one was not able to post in the other's thread.
In fact, when questioned about it...Baron stated he received a complaint and you're banned from that thread. This is when I realized Baron had the ability to ban individual's ability from a specific thread which seems, in my opinion, much more
effective than member's obviously navigating around the ignore/block that has a glitch.
Just as strange, I've seen ET management make posts in the past here in the Feedback section that trolling here at the forum is not allowed and one only needs to contact them and send them "links" to the message posts in question as if they have the ability to do something about it.
My point, I think most of the problems can easily be resolved if there was a feature that allowed members to ignore/block/
ban another member from their threads and that will solve the well-known glitch being exploited by some trolls with only a ignore/block feature.
- Thus, if Baron added a "ban" feature for us to use in our own threads...I wouldn't be surprised if it resulted in fewer trolling problems especially in threads outside of the Political section.
If I remember correctly, a
ban feature had been requested a few times in the past by others but they were told it would easily be abused by those that create their own threads. I personally disagree with that considering it should be enabled for threads outside of the Political section whereas it would not be available in the Political threads.
You know it's a problem because I've had others say they can not even start a thread in the Journal section, Wall Street section, Economic section,
or anywhere else that's not political nor in the Political section because of some idiotic troll here at ET...lurking in the shadows like some
vampire ghoul that you already have on ignore/block but waiting to harass you in your own threads.
Also, there are the "lurker trolls"...they are long-time members that do not post too much but they use the "like" feature to like the message posts of other members that are trolling other members...
In my opinion, that in itself encourages more trolling.
Yet, if ET management can
not fix the ignore/block...it should be openly stated to those complaining to them in private message that they're aware of the problem but you just need to
"suck it up" when the trolls show up in your threads and offer you the solution they can ban them from your threads instead of you needing to request it because many do not know they can request a troll to be banned from their threads.
Note: All of this started one day in the trade journal section when someone pm me to ask me who the hell was I talking to because my message post seemed psychotic...he could only see my message and not the message post of the person I was quoting. In fact, he asked me if I was talking to him or talking to someone else.
I gave him the username and he stated he had that username on his
ignore/block. I advised him to complain to Baron and company...he said he did but the trolling continued.
I eventually left the thread and he soon let his trade journal thread die...he has not started another trade journal and I'm not sure if its because of the trolling. Later, I had the exact same problem with two other trolls that were on my ignore/block in threads outside of the Political section.
- The person that was trolled in his own trade journal thread...he's never posted in the Political section at that point in time.
That's when I first became aware of a trolling problem of another member that I know and a glitch with the ignore/block although I didn't understand problems being discussed about the ignore/block feature here in the Feedback section
prior to that trade journal.
wrbtrader
