Skyburning

Hey mods, I'm not sure if it is within your power to do this but on another board I am on (it's a pit bull forum so it's prone to trolling) when you register your account is limited to an "introduction" thread where you have to tell a little about yourself and the mods have to "approve" it for you to get access to the rest of the board. Maybe something like that could work for us?

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fallon

that's a pretty good idea. I'll see if something like that would be possible, thanks

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evilbrent

On the other hand - you want to make it a really low entry-barrier for people to come online and get help.

Personally, if there's any more hassle to joining a new forum than checking my email inbox and clicking on the validation link... ANY more hassle... I'm not interested and I move on.

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Skyburning

I understand that too evilbrent but on the other hand if someone doesnt care enough to be bothered to post an intro how useful will they be?

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evilbrent

I dunno... how useful am I?

I never posted an intro.

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Good Wolf

I've been a mod/admin on a couple forums and I can say without a doubt that this forum some how as a very....very low level of trolls. I assume it is because it is a parenting forum, and becoming a parent typically jolts people into maturity.

I do know that although there is a lot of traffic on the site only a small portion of the people that visit it sign up and most of those people only start one thread and then leave. I've been on here for a while and I think I've only seen a couple 'trolls' and since we have active mods it was dealt with before most of us even saw what happened.

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jtee

I consider the trolls frequency to be pretty low. On a weekly basis we get people I suspect are taking on a "persona" to get parents to respond to a question/problem. Maybe they are a reporter writing an parenting article, a blogger looking for ideas for parenting blog. Who knows, but because it is harmless, I personally don't care if they want to pretend. Be a guy who wants to be a girl that wants to marry a guy, I don't care.

evilbrent

it's just, really, the LAMEST form of social jamming that there is...

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Ari2

I agree.

I try not to feed the trolls. If a post seems off ["Please help. My 18 year old son has fallen in love with a trained grizzly. I want to support my son and do what's best while still showing my utmost respect for bears. But I'm worried about a 'mixed marriage' - does that make me narrow-minded? My DS says yes. And then there's the problem of cub-baby grandkid hybrids, although I'm not sure if the grizzly is male or female. Not to get too personal, but does anyone know how to tell? Advice needed!"] or goes right for the weird sex angle I don't post in it. I'm also wary of first posts that lay out odd, mind-numbing personal problems, either because I wonder if it is a wind up or if the person will every post here again.

Lissa

I'm with Brent here. If a forum is going to hassle me, I'm not going to be interested either.

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