Forum Post: This forum is like a bad toilet - the crap keeps floating to the top. (warning - technical content)
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 11, 2011, 9:26 p.m. EST by sudoname
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from Berkeley, CA
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Sorting the forum topics based on the last comment time makes the controversial, biased, trollish, knee-jerk one liner postings thrive and dominate the first page, while the sensible debate gets flushed down into oblivion.
I almost preferred it during the first 2 weeks, where it was sorted by original post time. It had its own problems, and the percentage of trolls was lower, but the debate was definitely more sensible.
To solve this problem, I think the easiest solution is to allow for multiple sorting methods - by last comment time, original post time, number of comments, and maybe some blends of these properties.
Shouldn't the trolls be working on a Friday night to show us that they're the paragons of productivity? Why would they care about OWS anyway if they're so above it all?
Good comment, sudoname. Hope the mods see it, if this board has mods.
Email that suggestion to the mods.
there are mods? I've seen hundreds of threads and never a single forum mod. lol.
But I also love the suggestion sudoname. The trolls and false flags are so depressing.
You can email general@occupywallst.org and abuse@occupywallst.org
The more trolls and the more nastier they get, the more I know that the OWS is making progress.
my take on trolls:
if they are so sure of the failure of OWS, then why are they so obsessed with posting insults and rude comments, why bother, if they believe OWS is doomed anyway. I'll tell you why, because they're TERRIFIED, they know the OWS has created a huge international consensus about the 1% and the greed, and soon their days of trolling are numbered :)