Community Corner
Please Don't Feed the Trolls
Hello Tiverton Residents!
This is your not very friendly neighborhood Patch Engineer, and I have spent the past several days trying to get a persistent troll on this site to settle down and go away. I am monitoring new user registrations, have started implementing IP bans, and am checking our comments table for suspicious activity on a regular basis.
I am not scheduled to work on weekends, but I have logged a ridiculous amount of overtime for this one, just trying to make this user *stop*.
While I wholly understand the temptation to taunt Joe, what would be far more helpful would be if instead, you emailed moderation -at- patch.com with a link to the user profile for any new accounts you find that are coming from him. I will investigate, and add the account to my content deletion script if necessary.
Some of the comments you guys have been posting are very funny, but by necessity, they're going to disappear as soon as I find the latest new account and add it to my delete script, so it's really kind of a waste of time to put in the effort to be clever; just email moderation, instead.
I appreciate everyone's patience while I work on this.
Thank you,
Spam Hammer