Re^2: Penance Highlighting?

Any time you highlight a troll, you feed them. This is exactly the type of attention they yearn for.

Maybe we should make their nodes harder to approve, then? For example require 3 or even 5 approval nodes for a root node by somebody with negative XP.

I think that could work, because harmless questions will get them fairly fast, and troll postings won't as easily. And I'm rather suspicious when I see a post which isn't all that new and isn't approved yet.

For a user below the level in which you gain approval an consideration powers, all seems normal, except that the nodes aren't approved as fast as before, and hopefully not at all in the case of troll posts. Only experienced users would notice a difference in the UI.

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Re^3: Penance Highlighting? by Lawliet (Curate) on Jul 08, 2008 at 19:36 UTC
Why are they being approved in the first place? If it is just because the approver at the time does not recognize it as a troll, I would agree with your suggestion. `<(^.^-<) <(-^.^<) <(-^.^-)> (>^.^-)> (>-^.^)>`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Penance Highlighting? by moritz (Cardinal) on Jul 08, 2008 at 19:49 UTC
If it is just because the approver at the time does not recognize it as a troll, I would agree with your suggestion. I guess that, and the different ideas of what a troll posting is are the two main reasons. But since I'm just one of many approvers, I can't really tell.	[reply]
Re^5: Penance Highlighting? by Mutant (Priest) on Jul 09, 2008 at 09:16 UTC
I think approval possibly needs to be looked at. It's very easy for one person to approve something, and impossible to unapprove it, without going thru consideration, which takes a while. One monk can (intentionally or unintentionally) approve a troll node, giving the troll what s/he wants.	[reply]
Re^3: Penance Highlighting? by aufflick (Deacon) on Jul 10, 2008 at 04:22 UTC
++ : brilliant idea	[reply]