I tried searching but nothing relevant came up, which seems odd to me.
As mentioned in other threads, I commend the dev team for all the effort that went into v5. IMO, this version really feels - for the first time, really - less like a forum treading water to keep up with social media than it's own thing and a viable contender to online community in a post social media age. I don't mean that as kind of back handed compliment, but like most, our community really suffered after social media and this is the first time in a very long time that between an awesome product and a very wide spread, general disappointment from most people I've talked to about the social media experience these days, that we might see things come full circle and a new era in online communities.
That said, managing people, especially in this hyper polarized world we find ourselves in is still a problematic area IMO. Social media's solution to this is shadow banning accounts... Being able to specifically throttle back on who sees a problematic users content. I don't recall what forum system even had a built in feature that introduces all kinds of glitches and load errors to targeted accounts, which is also a really great idea for problematic users.
Wondering why Invision hasn't implemented these types of features?
These days, VPN's are pretty common. Also, throwaway emails are dumb simple - Apple literally builds aliases into iCloud now. Problematic users can be super tenacious and banning accounts, however easy, is still an uphill battle when you have a tenacious disruptor in your community. Having to manually approve comments and registrations is a major chore for larger communities, so why not adopt or evolve what the big boys do?
There used to be some plugins in the past that helped, but since v5, looks like there are none. Regardless, I feel this sits at the heart of community cohesion and success and too important to related to a plugin, so hoping we might see similar features in the future.
I definitely welcome ands appreciate any suggestions or solutions to this type of problem, but seems to me the best method is a less direct approach. Just make problem users feel like they're the only ones at the party by making sure no (or electively, very little) of their content is seen. And / or make it just a painful slog to access the website... Super slow loads, 404s, no style sheets, etc commands randomly served up with requests from targeted accounts.
I tried searching but nothing relevant came up, which seems odd to me.
As mentioned in other threads, I commend the dev team for all the effort that went into v5. IMO, this version really feels - for the first time, really - less like a forum treading water to keep up with social media than it's own thing and a viable contender to online community in a post social media age. I don't mean that as kind of back handed compliment, but like most, our community really suffered after social media and this is the first time in a very long time that between an awesome product and a very wide spread, general disappointment from most people I've talked to about the social media experience these days, that we might see things come full circle and a new era in online communities.
That said, managing people, especially in this hyper polarized world we find ourselves in is still a problematic area IMO. Social media's solution to this is shadow banning accounts... Being able to specifically throttle back on who sees a problematic users content. I don't recall what forum system even had a built in feature that introduces all kinds of glitches and load errors to targeted accounts, which is also a really great idea for problematic users.
Wondering why Invision hasn't implemented these types of features?
These days, VPN's are pretty common. Also, throwaway emails are dumb simple - Apple literally builds aliases into iCloud now. Problematic users can be super tenacious and banning accounts, however easy, is still an uphill battle when you have a tenacious disruptor in your community. Having to manually approve comments and registrations is a major chore for larger communities, so why not adopt or evolve what the big boys do?
There used to be some plugins in the past that helped, but since v5, looks like there are none. Regardless, I feel this sits at the heart of community cohesion and success and too important to related to a plugin, so hoping we might see similar features in the future.
I definitely welcome ands appreciate any suggestions or solutions to this type of problem, but seems to me the best method is a less direct approach. Just make problem users feel like they're the only ones at the party by making sure no (or electively, very little) of their content is seen. And / or make it just a painful slog to access the website... Super slow loads, 404s, no style sheets, etc commands randomly served up with requests from targeted accounts.
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