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Originally Posted by lukevanoort
Those Silencenomore posts were appalling, but after a while they became darkly funny. I'm amazed anybody would say that sort of stuff in a public forum. Maybe the solution isn't to restrict more, but make a anonymous shot out where you can just say "I hate team 666" (<- not a real team) it could be a moderated one to keep people from being really vulgar or specific, so they couldn't say "Team 666's driver is a stupid #@&$ and %#@$ moron." However, I may just be nuts and this would make the problem worse,
I don't know.
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I remember when SilenceNoMore joined and started causing a ruckus around here. SNM was an outspoken alter ego of another user on here and after several people figured out who it was they quit posting under the SNM user name and went back to thier older one with a team designation.
This isn't always the case and you will get people registering here just to cause problems whether they're on a team or not. The only way in reality to handle them is to deal with them as they happen. Banning someone outright because they don't have a current or past team could be hurtful to this forum. As an example, SkywayWheels is a username on here and they are you guessed it.........Skyway Wheels, a supporter and KOP supplier to FIRST. They are not, and have never been, on any team. They come on here to listen to us and help us when needed. If being on a team or being an alumini was a requirement then they wouldn't belong here. There are others similar to Skyway that are on here and contribute to this forum.
Now for my personal opinion. Having a forum solely for bashing other teams goes against what FIRST is about and this forum. I can see this forum becoming a major headache for the Mods. Remember that each Mod is an individual and when you get something that is borderline one Mod may allow it or not edit it as much as another. While you may think a whole team is bad that isn't generally the case. Usually it's one or two members that cause problems. They can be dealt with on a "as needed basis". Same thing I've unfortunately had to do as a mentor at times.
Bashing a whole team is excessive, not neccesary and will only open another can of worms. Second of all, having guests and sponsors seeing this on a open forum isn't good PR let alone GP.