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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Abuse on the internet is a growing problem and one that site admins\mods are struggling with so anything that might help is most welcome. I am an admin on a few forums and the time i now spend dealing with the idiot brigade is taking up most of my time on those forums and being honest after a while it wears you down and you start to lose interest because the interest that drew you to a particular forum is lost when your time is spent mostly dealing with idiots and your no longer able to participate as an ordinary member.
Will this solve the problem of course it won't and in the longterm i am not sure it will be remotely effective against the majority.
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Depends how determined the majority are, and why they are doing it. A large part of my job is maintaining discipline amongst students. What I have found over the years is that even in the most unruly group, if you can find the ring leaders and remove them from the situation, the group often quietens down. This is what happened in the riots last year. The authorities found the ring leaders, hit them hard, and the rest soon fell into line.
It works even if there aren't really "groups" as such. As long as people can see other people being punished, and punished hard, for doing something, a lot will lose interest in doing that something.