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Kale
Noticed this all over too. Social media especially is the worst place for it.
And that is what I think many should try to do first. If they continue then yeah perhaps mod queue, limited permissions, or whatever else. Most of the time talking with people works, but not always.
It's true, I have experienced being disrespected by a member where I'm an admin. I just tend to remove myself from the situation where that happens and avoid engaging with the member until they decide to be polite. I don't believe in cutting ppl off, just keeping a positive mindset about anyone and everyone. I'm not perfect but I try for the sake of my own sanity. It not only has a positive impact on my mental health, but also the community environment.
Sometimes it's a case of not engaging to prevent fuelling whatever it is you're fuelling, or if they're trolling. You never really know. The worst thing you can do, having been on both the giving and receiving end of this, is to call someone out for being a troll. What if that's just the way they are or they have a learning disability? That can be triggering.
Yeah, it's bad. Either the staff should PM the member to let them know what they're doing is annoying. If that doesn't help and it doesn't appear the member is attempting to rectify their behaviours, I suppose that not caring can be seen to be just as bad as trolling. Other thing is to choose your battles. If it's not damaging to the site but simply annoying to YOU, just simply don't engage. Just offering my 2 cents.
I don't know the inner workings of groups anymore so I suppose every forum is different with what is tolerated from what isn't. Perhaps? On one hand being ban happy is a good way to getting a decline in members especially if they see the atmosphere of the group hostile with the administration. On the other, there are some pretty asinine individuals roaming around the net up to no good and rather than engage in FF with them, a swift decision should be made. I've spent a majority of my time on roleplay forums where I have seen both sides of the issue as a member and moderator.
Should those asinine individuals be given a chance to improve their behavior?
Nope. I say this because I've seen first hand the behavior of these individuals. They never change. They make new accounts to come back to do the same thing. Had a person contact me three times wanting to write a story about a human and animals procreating. Blocked. They were banned. They made another account, sent me the same message, was blocked and banned again. Came back a third time, sent the same message. You'll know the ones who legitimately want to change, they show it.
Exactly those big ones that don't care about the ones they ban because they got so many joining each day they don't value individuals...it's just like big business or big banks not valuing small customers...
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