Originally Posted by tswindell

Oh, I must have miss understood, I thought the topic was "Tagging Trolls" ...

Like I've already mentioned though, you asked for a communal discussion between like minded people and we're giving it to you. Now, about your contributions to the community, I don't know if you've done anything at all. I'm mainly working on/with MeeGo now-a-days, but if you're going to be a complete lame *** and blame me for you not releasing anything. Well that's just absurd. If you've got something to give you shouldn't let people stop you giving it. I don't let you stop me from contributing, even if I'd rather not give my contributions to someone as arrogant and seemingly self-absorbed as you come across to me. But there are far more people on this forum than just you, and luckily your insanity is pretty much just localised to you.

Originally Posted by nick.read

If you're going to ask for forum or rule changes, start by abiding by the rules. See http://talk.maemo.org/faq.php?faq=vb...q_tmorulestext - Foul language. Note the part about changing spelling and/or language to avoid the filter.

Originally Posted by ndi

I have your solution.

Make tagging available to people with high post-to thanks ratio. Whether this is fixed or not, it's debatable. Keep it at 1:2 ratio or so.

On the funny side, I vote we keep ratio to just one over abill's ratio.

And no, it's not free speech. If insulting is against rules it's against rules on all mediums. What next, I can insult people via text files attached?

Frankly, IMO, we need this fixed because it is a nuissance. "Don't read it" is not an answer, because, frankly, I could tell you to go jump, and add a disclamer.

Disclamers don't excuse any behavior, as we all know. I understand that moderation here is hard already, but let (some of us) help.

Originally Posted by ndi

Several options:
* allow people who can tag to untag.
* restrict tagging to better users.
* restrict tags (but terrorists win)
* implement a vote down window, where people can disagree with tags. 3 votes de-tags. I will take some time to clean it up.

OTOH, a similar problem is haunting the thanks system and the rating system, to a lesser degree.

Originally Posted by tswindell

to be honest, you're more of a problem than bogus tags. If you don't like what the tags say don't read them. Just like if you don't like what someone says either ignore it or don't. I think you're all making a serious issue out of nothing. Tags in forums are useless unless there is a strict scheme on using them, which is why they should be ignored.

Anyone with half a brain understood what kangal was saying, except you. And you jumped on him straight away like an angry dwarf. You're at least 25.2% more offensive than anyone else on the forum and you never say anything interesting. You just argue with people. Get a grip!

Originally Posted by abill_uk

I am NOT the topic ok so please stay on topic and leave ME alone !!! all 3 of you ffs.

Originally Posted by retsaw

It took two and a half pages of this off-topic discussion for you to realise that it was going off-topic. And you are as much to blame as the others for this, if you had ignored the posts against you it wouldn't have carried on, and if you want to respond you can do it privately as a PM, but if someone winds you up, the best thing to do is ignore it and move on, this is a lot easier to do online than some real life situations. This sort of off-topic arguing is far more disruptive than any tags. And back on topic, if you don't like them ignore them, I've never tagged any threads and they are so easy to ignore I can go through 10 pages of a thread and not notice a single tag.