Here is a very interesting article about how to keep trolls from poisoning an online community. I definitely recommend it to the forum moderators and CMs.

http://www.informationweek.com/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199600005

The authors concept of "troll whispers" gave me an idea to help improve the WoW community. From my own experience, the realm forums are often the worst example of the WoW community, and barely moderated. This is understandable, you have dozens of forums, and thousands of posts to review daily I am sure.

However, there is a potential solution to this. Allow CMs and moderators to tag certain accounts as "meta-moderators". Hear me out before dismissing the idea. First, the "meta-moderator" would not be in any way different visually than a normal user - you may not even want to meta-mod to know they are are meta-mod. This would simply be a forum user who is reliable in reporting offending posts and threads.

The ability to report threads is great, but this could potentially allow moderators to more quickly find offending posts. As, I am sure there are hundreds of posts reported daily, some of which don't warrant moderation.

Or just give me the ability to delete posts and temp-ban accounts. :)

I mostly was driven to post this because for the last 2+ years, the Magtheridon Realm Forum has probably been the worst forum (per post) of any. It has long been controlled by a rather small troll cult of personality, and most intelligent or friendly people no longer even visit.

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I was wanting you to love me, But your love it never came.
- The Flaming Lips, Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell

Cory Doctorow is one of my personal heroes. ;)

However, Yutt, I'm going to move this thread to the Off-Topic for discussion, and if you like, you may feel free to post in our Suggestions forum regarding your thoughts on how to improve our forums.