Someone has to quickly put an end to this nonsense before it becomes a habit for too many.

I'm talking about fake threads, april fools-even-tho-it's-not-the-1st-of-april, trolling, and what makes a far too big percentage of what i am reading here on this forums.

Is'nt this place supposed to be sort of serious ?
I mean, i use mameo.org forums to track apps, get help, provide help when i can, share thoughts about the whole experience and try to make it better by collaborating with coders out there...

so to you people trying to be funny, or pissed at PR1.x MeeGoo or whatever

GET A LIFE !

and 'please' go troll elsewhere...

I wish that moderators wouldnt let those threads live and simply delete them.

Its just impossible to ignore them anymore, they're all over the "active topics" place !

I hope that most people out there share my thought, and that we can go back to using this place for the best !

Cheers

Indeed, I hope with the new MeeGo forums moderators can actually ban or remove those trolling threads.

Too much energy is spent on that with no result. Besides when someone tells a new guy "use the search" he will but most often will get just those stupid threads

That's democracy for you. It is not state controlled.

But yes, I agree - enough of these endless false threads about PR 1.2 being released. April first is over now so lets forget about these and get back to useful threads please!

I totally agree with this.

The only thing people want to read here is usefull info about Maemo/Meego/N900.

I don't want to read 70 pages of people complaining that PR1.2 is not released yet.

The forum is run on a phpBB platform. Banning and limiting access is easy enough to do through the administration control panel. I'm sure that if the mods saw fit then the trolls would be banned. As it is this is a very active forum and for an administrator to be online 24/7 and constantly working to keep the forum clean is a massive task for anyone.

I used to run a forum for 300 active members and that was hard enough. This community spans a helluva lot more than 300 members.

I personally feel for the admins that have to moderate this forum.

The answer is simple.

DON'T FEED THE TROLLS!

What can I say, I'm a troll, so if admins wants to ban or kill me, here I am.
Kisses. The troll.

vBulletin actually.

Let me suggest an alternative solution.
I wouldn't care if the troll posts weren't in the center of attention. Maybe we could have a forum category that is not shown in the active topics section. So trolls could do what they like there and no one who isn't interested is bothered with it. That would possibly spark less dissent since we wouldn't give trolls a new target ("maemo isn't open, they censor our opinions").
And btw. i find trolling is an art and troll posts can be entertaining and interesting if the art is mastered. Unfortunately i see more heavy-handed pricks here on tmo than trolls who master their art.

My bad....

None the less admin panels will have virtually the same functionality. I said phpBB because phpBB code works in all the posts - but I'll take that one and like it Pel

are you suggesting that trolls would only post where they are told to ?

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