Not bothered by NotBruceZ at all.
Some of the posts are pretty funny.
If Trump was the only one adversely affected, Iām afraid the honest answer is very glad.
Like others, I have found some of NBZās posts distasteful. They seem to be a bit more frequent from him than from other posters, though he certainly isnāt the only one. I donāt think he should be banned, but do wish heād ease back on the edgelording a bit. If he doesnāt, Iām OK with the current system of report->censor post when itās egregious.
I actually didnāt know that feature existed. Seems like a good way of crowd sourcing moderation.
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Good post. Not that itās an easy thing to do, but whenever you want to start a solar installation workers cooperative with the mission to train and help sustain immigrants who have problems with legal residency, Iām your huckleberry.
Iāll pop in and proclaim:
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I find many of NotBruceZās posts ridiculous but I donāt take them seriously (I agree with the ācrazy uncleā analogy).
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I have placed two members on Ignore and have thought of doing that for NotBruceZ (but no single post has prompted that action to date).
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The flagging system (3 flags is sufficient to hide a questionable post) seems sufficient in the case of NotBruceZ
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I personally have no qualms about someone wishing death or a long/painful disease on Trump or many other Republicans of this era. These are ārhetoricalā viewpoints which I share (rhetorically speaking).
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One poster out of hundreds/thousands that traffics in āadvocating violenceā does not mean the site advocates violence, condones violence, etc. It takes much much more than that, both in numbers and specificity, before that threshold is even approached.
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I certainly donāt want anybody to leave the site over this issue. Ignoring, Flagging, Moral Suasion are your friends.
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Of course youād somehow find a way to characterize me calling Stephen Miller and other administration officials responsible for ripping children away from tehir parents monsters as pro-vioelcne, while also saying you donāt have a problem with NotBruceZ.
Of course you would.
I donāt have any plans on making it a ācareer choice.ā If it were up to me Iād rather keep doing what Iām doing for a while, start a business in 1-5 years, travel a lot, retire early, travel and volunteer a lot, and live a happy, peaceful life.
In the event that things keep getting worse, and I continue to be torn up inside over watching whatās going on and doing very little beyond volunteering for campaigns, and feeling like Iām wasting my combination of empathy, communication abilities and intelligenceā¦ I would seriously consider running for office.
Given the likelihood of things not improving enough for my liking, itās a real possibility for me.
This is fair, as long as thisā¦
ā¦works effectively. But I disagree about NotBruceZ because itās just constant.
Maybe Iām just extra triggered because I am directly involved in most of his posts that are reported either by reporting it myself or responding to the flags, but it seems to me we should establish a rule about this type of posting, enforce it, and back it up with bans.
I think the 3 user post moderation thing is dumb. It allows a very small little group to stamp out posters they donāt like, or someone with enough brain cells to register 2 extra accounts.
I strongly disagree with whatever his nameās post, zara something. If anyone carries water for this administration still, at this late hour, I think trolling them is a worthy, if not honorable endeavor. Let us not be the whimpering non-Naziās in late 30ās germany. Hell, even the people that founded this nation would have never put up with this shit and they were racist as hell slaveowners. This is tyranny, plain and simple, and those who support it should GTFO.
I have a particularly strong hatred for certain generations; namely the boomers have nearly single handedly ushered in what is the likely (probably assured) destruction of the planet. I donāt think trolling these morons til they finally die off is bad at all and youād never convince me otherwise.
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Oh, ok. That makes sense
You blend right in with the average American.
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He might have if youād had that in your OP. 
This was my first thought too. Three flags is like an open invitation to trolls to come and vandalise threads.
Would suggest that the ability to flag a post that would trigger what youāre describing should be privilege earned in some way over time and by participating in the community. Am writing this without understanding how hard this would be to actually implement in the software. But would be better than anyone being able to imo
BV4L rules! F OOT!
Can it be made that only TL 3 can report posts to hide so people have to be here 100 days to do it?
If we ever get enough traffic to attract trolls weāll just knock new user trust levels back to zero. TL0 canāt flag posts.
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TL3 is effectively disabled currently because I thought there were concerns over some of the privileges.
So I canāt find that conversation anywhere and may have completely imagined it. Are there any objections to enabling TL3? The only privilege that could really be abused is the ability to rename and recategorize topics, and we can always revoke TL3 per user if somebodyās being a jerk.
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It might not matter anyway. Looking a little more closely at the settings I think instead of disabling TL3 I inadvertently made it impossible to lose once gained. The reason nobody is there yet is mostly due to the 200 Topics Read requirement. I just qualified today and have been promised a promotion soon. ggoreo is close behind. Our numbers are artificially high because of a bunch of test threads that got deleted before the site went live. Nobody else can hit the mark because there are < 200 threads total on the entire site.
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