Posted by andros 1 day ago
I suspect that the owner, or the users, of a site are able steer how much trolling there is by incentivizing good conduct and 'policing'. If people actually value the content they won't troll, or they'll actively keep things tidy using the available tools. If people don't really care about the content (or if they only care about their relatively small corner) then they'll happily trash the bits they don't see value in.
Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory[1]
[1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboa...
I don't think those countermeasures are working because as of this moment, there's plenty of obvious naughty words being passed through in that chat window.