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MK14:
If there was a 'magic bullet' solution, on how to run the perfect, forum (or website). It probably would have already been discovered, and then most of the forums (and websites), would probably follow suit.

I think this forum, has a nice balance between, some moderation, and being too restrictive.
I do miss politics, but agree, it needs to be disallowed, because it is rather problematic, and can need huge amounts of moderation, to even attempt to keep it under control.

The days of 'Wild west', totally free/open, internet (usenet or whatever), seem to be partial limited. As Governments and large organisations, are increasingly clamping down on such things**.
**Ironically, I have to stop this paragraph there. To stop breaching the no politics rule.

E.g. Youtube, increasingly clamping down, on more controversial, subject areas.

But, as EEVblog/Dave, has often said, and I fully agree. It (Politics) leads to disagreements and arguments, and so is best left, out of this forum.

bitseeker:
Yep, we get more than enough arguments about oscilloscopes. :-DD

james_s:

--- Quote from: Simon on March 10, 2020, 06:27:05 pm ---They started chest beating and idolizing trump. It resulted in a temporary ban during which i turned a blind eye to them using 2 other accounts. They then started having an argument they would not relent on about the morality of hacking things like rigol scopes in a totally unrelated thread. They refused to stop whilst accusing me of shilling mp site by having to constantly take part in the discussion to try and restore order to the chaos they caused. So ban was made permanent. Now they keep re-registering just to prove...... I don't know what. No one said that we have a system that can detect angrybird's umpteenth account and stop them at registration, other than people reporting post by a new user that still tries to make trouble.

It's all rather childish. But you get one now and then.

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I wondered what was going on with all those low post count banned members I've been seeing. Many times the post I saw from them was quite reasonable so they must have been misbehaving in some thread I wasn't in. It's a shame people can't just behave like adults, perhaps mental illness is involved? I don't know. This place certainly is refreshing compared to the endless flame wars that raged on in usenet groups, back before they all got completely overrun by spam.


Personally I don't think it has been *that* big of a nuisance, certainly not enough to change the way people authenticate or whatever. When the culprit shows up just ban them when they misbehave and sooner or later they'll get bored and find something else to obsess over.

Simon:

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--- Quote from: Karel on March 08, 2020, 08:51:40 am ---Would it be an idea to use two-factor authentication (for registering only) that uses an sms verification?
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The forum has a 2FA option, I use it myself, but it's not compulsory.

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What about enforcing it (for registering only) to avoid problems with people who create multiple accounts?
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That would not stop any malicious actor, as the 2FA is Google Authenticater based and and anyone can use that without tracking.

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Quite. Really the forum standard is mostly driven by members reporting suspicious people or unsavory behavior. There is no way to stop and otherwise fine member going off their head.

Shock:
Bad idea to require compulsory 2FA or other verification, it will badly hurt the forum stats. Just at discretion hide posts from banned accounts such as low post repeat offenders, ghost accounts and hide or delete the spam.

For the banned users you could use "Ex Member" or something if you don't like to see the word banned. This should only be reserved for clearly contributing members not malicous ones.

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