Bront said:
...though I can think of 2 off the top of my head, one I called on it, but that's a different matter). Seems strange to me?
Two is an abundance? We've seen more than that in the past.
The mods had to say something on it one time, because it was getting to eight or ten accusations of troll per forum.
Because "trolling" or "baiting" is so common across the 'net, people can be quick to "call it", though I don't understand why. After all, "calling troll" is just as bad as sinking to the bait, when in truth the best way to handle it is to leave it alone. In fact the most ignoble death a true "flamebait" can suffer is sinking down the page into obscurity.
If someone sees something that violates forum policy (insulting language to other posters, discussion of real-world religion, real-world politics, etc.) we've encouraged policy to report and don't react, and let the mods deal with it for years now, to the point where the the majority of posters do just that. We evaluate each report, decide if it's close enough to the line to let it live, and we encourage people that if there's a thread that they dislike the topic of, let it die. On forums with fast-moving topics like ours, it doesn't take but a couple of hours for a flamebait thread to fall to the second or even third page, and in a day or so, outta sight, outta mind.
