General DiscussionThis forum is so intense and epic

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This forum just needs a ignore buttom and everyone will be happy

^^ "YOU SUCK" ?

Ban wave and hael then everyone will be happy

^and bogi

@Dorkly

Ignore buttons on a public forum is counter productive. Everyone's view should be heard and if you do not accept that you should stay within your private domain. Obviously proper moderation should be used to facilitate discussion.

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Ignore buttom is like the mute buttom in the game, if i dont want to hear bullshit from some people is the best option.

Ignoring some people is better

you are not suppose to be having discussions in game chat..........they are completely different

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The "ignore" button on a forum like this is simple: don't read the person's posts.

I think the most intense iam-better-then-u piece of **** in here is Sampson
any challenger?

@sampson
on the dev forums there is an ignore option and it really helps keep out the trolls.

@Mustard

Blunt or wave

@Wink
On playdota there is a ignore option too

why not just ban the trolls? ignoring them does not help the forums it only is a band aid

Well that requires more moderation and more time from the mods

like I said it is a band aid for lazy moderation. Every new person to the forums has to learn each troll and then ignore each of them one at a time

^+1

Plz mods, ban bogi, wave, and hael

Still some trolls might not get banned even when they deserve it, so a ignore buttom will still be ok

Ban the trolls and give a ignore buttom

Dorkly I see exactly what you are trying to do, you are not fooling anyone. You want to ignore people you do not like. If they are trolling and there is proper moderation they will be banned.

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No, i am just asking for a ignore button, and that shit exists in a lot of forums and it usually works.

I ignore people i dont like by not reading their shit, a ignore button would make it easier.

but i guess you would be n1 in the ignore list, probably the reason you dont want that

oh well

Edit: Well actually with a proper moderation you would get banned so i guess you are right :)

'I ignore people i dont like by not reading their shit, a ignore button would make it easier.'

yes but you are using the guise of 'to help against trolls'. This does nothing against trolls it just limits discussion. Discussion is a two way street and while you might not like their view ignoring it does not facilitate real discussions. To stop trolls you need to ban trolls.

saying well 'X forums has Y and it works' is like saying 'well LoL doesnt have a denies and it works might as well bring that to Dota 2' -_-

i want to see a thumbs up/down beside every post so we can see what people actually think of every input (ty to anonimity).

if all these are indeed implemented I think Sampson will get ignored and t-down a lot. by a lot I literally mean ALOT

Well its not like this forum is going to get a true moderation soon, ignore buttom is cheaper and easier, it might not fix totally the problem but at least it would be something to start with

I would actually support a thumbs up/down function to deal with people making QQ threads about how 'their team is keeping them in the 2k bracket'

You bring up what other websites do but guess what they all have? Moderation

Yep moderation and ignore buttom

and everyone happy :)

a thumbs up/down function would be great too

my only issue was with it was people saying 'bring the ignore function to deal with trolls' which it does not accomplish and the mods might do it to appease some people and not actually have to do work (moderation)

Dude just dont flame them again ffs :D

I think a little flame gets them to not feel complacent :P

Sam, if denying is in dota 2 and it works, bring it to lol. it works the other way around.
Ignoring works in dev.dota2, but they also have mods that ACTUALLY DO STUFF. we should bring both of those things here.

I have no issue bringing them over (while I do not agree with ignore in public forums I am not against having them). As stated I just dont want ignore function to be brought over as a band aid fix for trolls when they really should be focusing on the moderation issue

we seriously need new mods that actually use the forum (sam, melody, me)

^before anyone loses their shit sam /= Sampson

yes it does o.O
what else would it be? sam = hael? rofl

because I am not a nice person I assumed to meant sam #2

im not either, but at least we would actively moderate the forum...

I cant help but agree with the "Ignore" feature.
would help filter the forums discussions and to stay away from the useless trolls
If that is considered a bad idea form the mods, then a more active removal of toxic people from the mods should be considered at least.
or as someone else says, why have one when you can have both? :)

+1 on that Dorkly

I think Dotabuff needs to take a stance on things. For example is it toxic to the forums to allow QQ threads about elo hell and have them spam every match they lose or is it toxic to call them retarded when they post it?

Yes to qq threads. No to flaming qq thread-makers.

It's more toxic to clog a forum with crappy threads than to flame the cloggers.

Which is worse, the shit in the pipes, or the plunger?

@Sampson

both is toxic. an ignore function wold solve both problems.

1. It would keep the forum threads list clean
2. It would prevent reading flame garbage

Personally I believe just pick whatever you want the QQ or the flame so people can choose if they want to be a active member of these forums or not OR at least force things into sub forums.

@Yoshi

Every day there is a new person creating a 'god my teammates suck valve plz fix' thread. Having to ignore each person every day is annoying and is why all web forums have some form of moderation. Also the ignore function does nothing for new people who come to the forums because they have to read all the QQ threads to ignore each person individually

@people considering flame as toxic
define flame

@Sampson
While i agree with you the forum needs moderation, it just a click (if implemented properly) to ignore those newly created threads or their creators. So far it's not like I'm seeing 100 people on a daily basis posting that. It's right, there are, but not as many.

@Wink
What i mean is, flaming is not constructing and doesnt bring anything to a discussion.
That's a personal opinion ofcourse. Still I believe that ignoring the post would do much more than flaming.
Or if you have to post (happens to me too) just avoid being the flamer

Personal opinion here, feel free to share yours

http://dotabuff.com/topics/2014-04-17-unbeileveable

read my first comment

People consider that 'flaming'

I didn't start reading these forums until recently, and I like what I see as well :)

sam is showing exactly what i mean by "define flaming", everybody has a different opinion about it. I say way worse things than sam but never get called out on it, but sam is always called out on his constructive criticism. QQ threads should be blocked from this site, then there will be nothing to flame