Question

The OS chats really need to be monitored more. Alot of thing are being done against COC regardless of being warned or not. I myself warn them. And I have given my share of reports sadly. But I feel like this could be avoided if we had an ability to have the chats more monitored. I know the mods are busy and don't always have the time to respond to every outburst, but I feel this need to be said for a long time. I know OS is looking for someway to get this possible, but I feel this issue is current and should be treated as a priority.

Answer 1

yeah it does need moderation....chat mods were suggested but the dev team has other things on mind right now so i dont think anything will happen atm just report n ignore

Answer 2

I know to ignore them, and I do try to get others as well, but they want to deal with the problem head on, giving said troll more intensive to do bad.

Answer 3

The chats do not need moderation. They need voluntary compliance. There CANNOT be enough mods.

Answer 4

Yeah, it's a bit unreasonable for a person to sit all day long staring at messages.

Answer 5

No disrespect @tkhunny but if you think voluntary compliance is possible, it sadly is not. The privacy of the internet makes it more possible for people to do bad and know that there are little to no consequences with them. I understand your point on not being enough mods, and I am not saying make more mods, but anything to help with an instentive for less breaking of COC would be great.

Answer 6

Well if the email verification is made mandatory and it pulls through (and I think it will), there will be less spammers.

Answer 7

I'm saying ONLY that the ONLY way to SOLVE it is Voluntary Compliance. It will always be a problem. Voluntary Compliance is not dead. There are many who are quite willing. Like so many places and kinds of unrest in our world, it is only the actions of a few - then the few grow to greater numbers - that constitutes the problem.

Answer 8

^ That is true. Everyone makes decisions. A person's decision to go against the CoC is nonetheless a decision...

Answer 9

It is sadly true. Very true. I suppose then there is nothing we can do.

Answer 10

We can not join the messed-up few. We can stay out of the chats and reduce the number of victims. We can avoid friend-ing and interacting. As a general rule, starving terrorists is a good way to get them to go away. Lacking funding and food, they tend to shrivel.

Answer 11

@tkhunny people use chats to attract attention to their questions...

Answer 12

No, there is no such effect. Any personal reference to an actual question is shouted down by the abusers. The chats already have an automated alert for questions. Interrupting the abusers' personal conversations is frowned upon by even the marginally pathological.

Answer 13

@Jaynator495 wouldn't you agree?

Answer 14

Just curious. For attracting people to a post, isn't that what tagging is for? The chats don't necessarily attract users to a post.

Answer 15

When following the rules:

1) Post a question.
2) Show your work.

If the OP then desires a favorite or familiar contributor to respond, a single tag, or maybe two, is quite appropriate. This doesn't happen in chats. (It only occasionally happens in the forums.)

As presently used, there is no reason for the chats to be segregated by subject. If there were just one big chat, that might help, as it would be more difficult to follow any single conversation.

Answer 16

"I know OS is looking for someway to get this possible, but I feel this issue is current and should be treated as a priority." -- fierstar123

From what I have seen, the #1 priority is monitization. See, OS pays for itself and some development, but not a lot of the latter. So if they get the monitization systems working, then it becomes easier to pay for more development.

I agree that troll reduction would be a way to do user retention and thus adds up to better ad value. However, the admins took a different path than I our you would have.