Comment Tools: Now We will Warn, Suspend, and Move Threads In place of Banning [Announcements]

Before, our only choices for coping with bad comments was to ban or disemvowel. But now! We’ve got some more tools so it’s not so all-or-nothing.

First, is warning. Users will see that they’re warned, and get linked to the community policy-a hard and fast of rules that they have to familiarize themselves with if they need to keep commenting here.

Then, there’s thread moving. That’s what we do if we predict a comment is so egregious that it deserves both a warning and a moving to a tagpage, so it’s not cluttering up the discussion. Listed below are the principle five tagpages we’ll be moving to.

• #trollpatrol . Originally we used this tag for identifying trolls, but we’ll throw actual trolls in there in addition. But please, continue using that as a place to indicate us where the trolls are.

• #fanboys . Another obvious tagpage. This isn’t for those that use and revel in products, it’s for those that lose their damn minds over a brand or idea and are ignorant of any other options or dissenting opinions. It is advisable to know who these are.

• #timeout . A place where we send commenters that desire a little time far from typing words into boxes as a way to contemplate whether or not here’s definitely the right place for them. This goes with a 7-day suspension-something milder than a ban, but still serves the purpose of telling them that we don’t like what they’re doing with their comments.

• #phantomzone . While you make uninformed, stupid or otherwise lousy comments, it is where that comment shall be. Say hi to Zod.

• #whitenoise . Offtopic discussions go here. If a post is set keyboards and you focus on deciding upon new curtains, we’ll escort you over here.

• #dev/null . I just came up with this one, and I’m pretty sure I’m going to take advantage of it regularly.

We’ll also create various tags on the fly if we predict they fit your comment better. For instance, in case you like making comments before reading the actual post, we’ll move you to #RTFA . In case you’re somebody who likes to advertise your personal website on your entire comments, we’ll move you to #spam . Etc.

When we get the facility to duplicate comments apart from moving them, we will do stuff like #commentoftheday , or #windowstip . Until then, be good, and keep it up commenting. When you’re new, head here to try our guidelines.

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