@p- wrote:
@juggalo9er wrote:Can someone please direct me as to what the proper etiquette is when you believe a poster is making arrogant smug rmarks?
That's pretty subjective... If they are in clear violation of this site's terms of service, just notify a Mod and they will take care of it. This community has guidelines. Otherwise, the best course of action is to either subtly poke fun at them until they flounce away, or grow a thicker skin and move on. In other words, tattle, give it right back, or suck it up and drive on. I generally favor the last two options myself.
I do this with the most wildly fashion as possible, w/o violating the TOS terms.
@p- wrote:
@juggalo9er wrote:Can someone please direct me as to what the proper etiquette is when you believe a poster is making arrogant smug rmarks?
That's pretty subjective... If they are in clear violation of this site's terms of service, just notify a Mod and they will take care of it. This community has guidelines. Otherwise, the best course of action is to either subtly poke fun at them until they flounce away, or grow a thicker skin and move on. In other words, tattle, give it right back, or suck it up and drive on. I generally favor the last two options myself.
If someone is generally trolling it up anyway to the detriment of the community, even borderline cases it's not a bad idea to Report it as Inappropriate Content anyway.
To be perfectly honest I had more time to keep up with the forums beforehand; now I'm just not in a life circumstance permitting that. If someone files an AR, all the moderators get notified, and I can go take a look without trawling the forums like I used to do for hours on end. Now if nobody says anything, I sometimes wind up seeing an issue weeks later after it's become a real problem and I don't get the chance to try to handle it with a light touch as I'd personally prefer.
Can't speak for the other moderators but I would suggest they all have similar times where they're busy, and it's impossible for one individual to read the whole forums anyway.
Might be considered tattling but I don't subscribe to that, personally I'd rather see AR's on things that *might* become a problem than things which already are. The first can be resolved sometimes without impact to the community, the second it's already has impacted the community and there isn't much to be done other than applying the nuclear option.
Another vote for dishing it back.
Trolls trolling trolled trolls is a beautiful thing to witness. I personally think myFico could use a bit of that quintessential internet madhouse spirit.
Poking is fun, and sometimes deserved.
On the other side of the pond, you guys would just love "membersince99," and his bashings...lol.
As Rev pointed out, ARs are the best way to alert us. We are here to make sure the community, as a whole have a forum in which they are comfortable with visiting; this will never be the place for 'one' to be more important than the 'many'.
We are all busy and sometimes things do get missed - do not be afraid to use the AR or if you feel more comfortable, PM a MOD.
~Lexie
