Any time you highlight a troll, you feed them. This is exactly the type of attention they yearn for. That's why we don't show XP totals that are less than zero - to keep them from being able to "earn" a more trollish score.

Though this is an interesting idea, I think it needs some tweaking to keep from feeding the trolls. That is, whatever highlighting is given would only be seen by users with at least a minimum of (positive) XP. This would disclude anonymous monks (since the trolls would otherwise be able to log out and gloat over their highlighting) and the trolls themselves. That minimum level, however, would need to be carefully chosen - not so low as to be trivially attained by the trolls (say with another user account), but not so high as to be useless to the new monks who would likely be in more need of such a function.

Personally, I can't come up with a perfect solution. I'm not sure there is one. But I don't see a problem in incremental movements toward that perfection, carefully weighing the balance between the trolls and the trolled.

In reply to Re: Penance Highlighting? by Tanktalus
in thread Penance Highlighting? by cmv

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