Timeline for Add the ability to ignore users
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| Apr 17, 2018 at 17:12 | comment | added | Shog9 StaffMod | Fwiw, we briefly tested a "report user" function s few years back... Most of the reports were specific to something a user had written (spam, trolling) and thus merely delayed the removal of problematic content; of the rest, a significant portion was folks upset that someone had criticized their post. Also, lots of reports on moderators. | |
| Apr 17, 2018 at 17:05 | comment | added | Shog9 StaffMod | Muting posts would be a damn useful feature even outside of overtly abusive situations. | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 14:09 | comment | added | Pollyanna | @BilltheLizard That does sound annoying. | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 13:57 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard | A user is currently camping out on one of my posts from two days ago, responding to every answer and comment, even if they're not directed at that user. They're not breaking any rules, but they're dominating the conversation there. I'd like to just mute that user and/or post, but the tools don't currently allow me to. I'm pretty much left with ignoring all notifications. (This is not the first time this has happened, and it is not the only user that does it. I typically just avoid all Meta discussions lately because of this kind of behavior.) | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 13:57 | comment | added | Pollyanna | As it is we've only got 236 people (out of millions of users) who've upvoted this in the last decade. Very few have posted anything similar to "I've experienced this kind of harrasment". | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 13:56 | comment | added | Pollyanna | And as far as posting stats, that should come from the mods and stackoverflow. They should have a pretty good handle on how many people are complaining about this type of personal harassment. | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 13:55 | comment | added | Pollyanna | As it is, a userscript should resolve the situation for a handful of people with this issue. The question I need answered is whether the problem is pervasive enough that we really need to change the whole system to take care of it. | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 13:53 | comment | added | Pollyanna | @BilltheLizard Ok, so this is about harassment. I feel that's distinctly different, and that the attacker should be stopped at the system level, not just the user level. Can you describe a scenario where someone is harassing someone else, but their content is not only completely in line with the site guidelines, but valid and valuable to other users, and they are not bothering any other user, just the one? Because that's the only situation where I could see this solution being correct. And then only if it's a persistent, prevalent problem that cannot be handled on a case by case basis. | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 13:49 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard | Victims of harassment don't often post details and statistics in the place where they're being harassed, for fear of more harassment. And yes, I had a problem, reported it and got the response "not bad enough to do anything about, sorry". | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 13:49 | comment | added | Pollyanna | Because my interpretation of this question isn't an issue of harassment - they don't want the user banned or their content deleted. They've just found that their writing style rubs them the wrong way, and therefore don't want to see it - not that it's bad content, or that the person is bad, but that the two of them together result in friction. You're speaking of acts of harassment, though. | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 13:47 | comment | added | Pollyanna | @BilltheLizard Flagging for moderator attention doesn't work? How prevalent is this problem? Are bad actors actively going around and harassing specific users without being caught and punished? Or are they not caught and punished enough? What level of harassment are we talking about, because outright insults, swearing, etc should be easily handled and result in bans from the moderators. Or am I mistaken and the site has a lot of bad actors, operating openly, without reprise, with terrible forms of harassment? This request would benefit from some statistics and knowledge of degree. | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 13:43 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard | There is no content-based tool to deal with one user harassing another. This insistence that this is not a social network, therefore we don't have social network problems, is just ignoring real issues. We need to pull our heads out of the sand. | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 13:39 | history | answered | Pollyanna | CC BY-SA 3.0 |