Just recently, a forum owner deleted his entire database of forum posts, dating back to 1996, almost 13 million posts, over an incident of on forum trolling.
After publishing an article by a guest blogger, the site received some negative feedback and encouraged their members to visit the forum to voice their opinion.
Some members found the author's home and email address and started making open threats against her safety on the forum (you can read details on the link). And, instead of heavily moderating, locking or deleting the threads where the author was threatened, the staff allowed it to go on.
At some point, the owner of the forum stepped in and decided to lock all the threads and move them to a subforum for archive. After that, he rebooted the forum from scratch, so essentially it's a new forum now.
The forum owner mentioned how this forum ugliness had been going on for awhile.
Just to me, this seems like a very extreme reaction. However, not having seen the original forum, it's possible that nearly every thread was laced with some type of hatred or trolling to the extent that it would have been impossible to hand pick through the millions of threads to find anything worth saving.
I am only supposing that's why the forum owner decided to take this action.
What's your view on this? Who is at fault, staff or owner for allowing the forum to become infested with trolls? And, would you have deleted so many threads on your own forum?
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... e&id=52513
After publishing an article by a guest blogger, the site received some negative feedback and encouraged their members to visit the forum to voice their opinion.
Some members found the author's home and email address and started making open threats against her safety on the forum (you can read details on the link). And, instead of heavily moderating, locking or deleting the threads where the author was threatened, the staff allowed it to go on.
At some point, the owner of the forum stepped in and decided to lock all the threads and move them to a subforum for archive. After that, he rebooted the forum from scratch, so essentially it's a new forum now.
The forum owner mentioned how this forum ugliness had been going on for awhile.
Just to me, this seems like a very extreme reaction. However, not having seen the original forum, it's possible that nearly every thread was laced with some type of hatred or trolling to the extent that it would have been impossible to hand pick through the millions of threads to find anything worth saving.
I am only supposing that's why the forum owner decided to take this action.
What's your view on this? Who is at fault, staff or owner for allowing the forum to become infested with trolls? And, would you have deleted so many threads on your own forum?
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... e&id=52513
