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Mmmh nope, this cannot happen. His account can be closed if too many people would report him, but nobody but from the staff can directly close an account.
It would not surprise me that he finally got reported, since he's been playing with the limits of trolling for a while now. 
Anyway ... his account is not closed (anymore?). 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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What he posted in the Lounge was in no way trolling. It's better than 90% of the drivel that gets posted there. Did he post anything else there that I somehow missed because I frequent CP on a daily basis?
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Do not get me wrong, I am with you for this last post. But I do have examples where he was trolling; I first blamed it on culture/language, but it was definitely not the case...
Oh well, this is already too much philosophy on yet another subject that does not deserve it  Let's go play outside !
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Perhaps, but we all have trolled at times, like my recent escalade that tore us apart.  However, he's one of the lesser ones in my opinion and I seem to recall you defending Erudite_Eric just this week, and MMM is tamer.
I'm heading out at my usual time of 2 PM. Early to work, early to leave.
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I have nothing against him (actually I never really had anything against anyone, AFAIR), was only trying to explain the behaviour of the herd.
I'll follow your example : Late to work, early to leave (there is no need being late twice a day  ).
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Never thought it was you. Just surprised that you thought MMM was a troller, but justified EE, even though I don't think he is one either.
Nice quote. I hope you practice it daily.
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Rage wrote: but nobody but from the staff can directly close an account
 We can definitely close accounts.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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"nobody but from the staff"
I included you in the staff. 
[Edit] Or does the phrase "nobody but someone" mean exactly the opposite of what I intended to say ? I meant "nobody apart from the staff can close accounts.". [This ten seconds of English idioms formulation were kindly given to you by the GYGRO, get your grammar right! Organisation].
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I'm doubling the number of reports needed to close an account.
I'm on the fence with this one though. Some people simply cause a lot of needless running around for the sake of causing a lot of needless running around.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Unfortunately, a lot of people just jump on the bandwagon in complaining about someone on something when they see others do it too. Similarly, everyone starts playing childish games like "who walked where in the morning seeing what" (yesterday's Lounge posts or before) and building up post after post after post of drivel. It's mob mentality whichever direction it's going. However, if someone doesn't like it, they should just ignore it.
Maybe it's time to add a blocked list for users so that we can avoid drivel from people. I'm sure I'll make the cut too.
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There's a reason I don't frequent the lounge much anymore. There are still some great post but they do get lost in the drivel. I still like the forums though.
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Same here too. Cheers !!!
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As far as I'm concerned, some people should be stripped of the right to report.
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I'm also on the fence here: doubling the time to close an account is a PITA because it at least doubles the time it takes so kick the Love Guru back to where he belongs...
Perhaps what we need is a graduated Kick? Similar to the graduated effect of an up or down vote?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Perhaps what we need is a graduated Kick? Similar to the graduated effect of an up or down vote?
Is this the same as the term 'Weight' used here[^]?
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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No, no, no.
"Weight" is the right word... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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 Alright. Then you have to decide which category you will determine the Weight from. It seems obvious to do that based on the Organiser level, but there are a lot of Platinum Organisers out there.
I was looking at the Privileges tab. It does not show what it takes to be able to report a member profile, but if it follows the "Report a forum message" privilege, perhaps simply raising the Debator level needed could alleviate some of these cases.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Unfortunately that means it is more difficult to remove the real spammers. Could we not have weighted voting on the spam button?
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Not even more difficult but it may also let accounts of article spammers stay active. When a spam article has been rejected the member account is not visible anymore if the article has not been reported in the Spam and Abuse Watch forum.
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Weighted voting will actually make the issue worse.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris, another idea is to just block a person from that forum for a few months. If s/he spams 2 or 3 forums and gets blocked from there too, then you deactivate his account.
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Spammers use throw away accounts. Banning simply isn't effective.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thank you for bringing this up. Chris helped me by activating my account back 
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