User Derek_Tutschulte has been banned. We do not abide bullies here.
There has been a spate of users going after others over the last few weeks. In more than one case, this has been followed by a revelation by the perpetrator of emotional burnout or similar issues, with the members asking to be reinstated.
I do not believe that genie can go back in the bottle after you have burned the community this way, so I ask everyone to, please, consider your own mental health, and take a breath before you post.
The pandemic has, IMHO, broken a lot of online discourse. Be it the scope of Poeâs Law, the scope of misinformation and the people behind it moving from âannoyingâ to killing people, and several groups within our communities being under siege just for being who they are.
Take a breath before you post. try to make sure you are contributing constructively to the online discourse here. For many, taking a jab at someone like this poster is cathartic, knowing the moderators will come behind and clean it up. But that behaviour lowers the quality of discourse here for everyone. Please flag instead, for everyoneâs mental health. Deprive these users of material to weaponize.
@orenwolf - not a mod topic exactly, but this post from @jlw has a comments link that links back to the post (that old bug again) and I suspect nobody has got there, because it does not even appear in any BBS search.
@orenwolf and another one doing the same. Is there an alternative method/place youâd prefer we used to we report these?
I note the 9 Oct one re High School principal still not fixed - did jlw deliberately disable comments? If so, removing the comments link would be a better idea. But as the comments link was there, can we assume this was the same old bug again?
What triggers a post needing approval? Iâve posted almost 500 times without any major incident, on two occasions my post needed to get approval. The latest was in the toxic Disney topic. Itâs waiting approval now but I canât figure out why.
There is a list of words that trigger an automatic review⌠So, thatâs likely what happened. As long as the use of the word is in good faith, it should be approved.
If you wrote a word that starts with T and rhymes with roll, then you can just edit the pending post and replace the offending word with the similar word âGoblinâ and your post will go right up.
I just tried to give an example of a trigger word and it had to wait for approval. The word starts with âtrâ and rhymes with âsoulâ. I had even obscured it by replacing the âoâ with â()â.
Context matters here. Accusing other posters of posting in bad faith is going to get your post rejected - you should flag posts where you believe this is happening.
Of course, words are used in many contexts, and sometimes get caught for other reasons (itâs not just specific words that can cause a post to be held). We try to review these as quickly as possible, and the number of âinnocentâ posts held is, thankfully, very small, while these same filters catch quite a few spammers or drive-by troublemakers before their posts even make it to the wider BBS.
OK, different question, as long as weâre gathered here this afternoon:
If I view the page with topics organized as âNew,â it allows me to sort those topics in order of most recent Replies, Views, and Activity. Is there a âswitchâ to add a tab to allow us to organize by âmost recently postedâ or something? Iâd be interested in ordering the results by most recently posted instead of the others.
