Etiquette for problems?
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 6:49 am
I'd like to get a feel of the room on what I will just call the "irregular go issue". Although this shouldn't be just about this one person, but a more general discussion about behavior that others may also repeat in the future.
This consists of:
- high volume of very low quality problems, including clearing (valid) flags with no comment and emotionally charged problem instructions regarding those flags
- trolling discussions
- creating alternative accounts to upvote their own problems and/or adopt a new troll persona
I have no issue with someone filling their time with roleplaying online. I don't like people actively being disruptive and to me it seems there is no other purpose to these behaviors.
Clearly this site depends heavily on contributors to manage problems like a wiki and unrestricted mayhem done by few can easily undermine a lot of its value. Creating a category for problems that you expect will get deactivated because they are so poor in quality is not constructive at all and seems like purposely trolling.
But that's just how I feel about this. Is trolling in this manner not that big of a deal? Should there be restrictions for contributions? What do you think?
This consists of:
- high volume of very low quality problems, including clearing (valid) flags with no comment and emotionally charged problem instructions regarding those flags
- trolling discussions
- creating alternative accounts to upvote their own problems and/or adopt a new troll persona
I have no issue with someone filling their time with roleplaying online. I don't like people actively being disruptive and to me it seems there is no other purpose to these behaviors.
Clearly this site depends heavily on contributors to manage problems like a wiki and unrestricted mayhem done by few can easily undermine a lot of its value. Creating a category for problems that you expect will get deactivated because they are so poor in quality is not constructive at all and seems like purposely trolling.
But that's just how I feel about this. Is trolling in this manner not that big of a deal? Should there be restrictions for contributions? What do you think?