[wp-forums] What's with all the Bozo's?

[Josh Lobe]

Lol... Mel :)
Your insight is priceless!
Too funny.

No.. I didn't think to check deleted posts.  Thanks.
We need like a "mod crash course" page.
An area to 'pass the torch', if you will.
Only accessible to mods... a page where the primary capabilities of 
moderators are listed and discussed.
A thought moving forward...

Thanks Mel.

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On 5/16/2014 5:31 AM, esmi at quirm dot net wrote:
> on 16/05/2014 10:02 Josh Lobe said the following:
>> I've looked back through prior posts... and didn't notice anything
>> immediately obvious.
>> I mean... a couple of these folk seem like genuine people.
>
> Did you check deleted posts as well?
>
>> What's the threshold for a bozo?
>> I mean, I'm sure harassment, solicitation, etc... qualifies.
>> What about a genuine b-fest?  A vented frustration towards a developer;
>> or WP in general?
>
> There is no hard & fast answer because the gamut of "I'd really like 
> to keep an eye on this poster" is too wide.
>
> If it's b-fest or venting frustration in a negative or aggressive way, 
> I, personally, would probably bozo the poster but also try to join the 
> topic and see if I can get the bozo'd poster to try some deep 
> breathing and a short, self-imposed", time out to cool the emotional 
> temperature. I'd then keep an eye on the topic and see if the 
> discussion showed any signs of improvement. If the bozo'd poster did 
> calm down (and some do), I'd probably remove the bozo flag and leave 
> the topic to continue normally. Problem is - some posters don't come 
> back again for days or weeks and the bozo tag ends up being permanent.
>
>> I don't want to bozo anyone... don't have the authority, anyways.
>> I'm just wondering if there isn't a 'glitch' somewhere in the system...
>
> I don't think there is but then I'm of the opinion that, if you stick 
> 20 people in a small room, at least one of them will be a problem to 
> the other 19. Applying that vague 5-10% rule to a database that 
> currently contains almost 7.5 million users and you're going to get 
> quite a few "bozos". :-)
>
> Mel