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On a forum I help run, we tried the method of hiding a person comments from everybody but themselves (we only did it once for a particularly troublesome member)
by TallGuyShort 17y ago
On a forum I help run, we tried the method of hiding a person comments from everybody but themselves (we only did it once for a particularly troublesome member). It was completely effective. After a couple of weeks you could tell from their comments that they really felt left out, but didn't realize what was going on. They kept trying anything for attention and eventually went away.
- scorxn 17y agoCouldn't they log out, check the thread, see their posts omitted, and become as inflamed as if they're banned? Or was the entire forum private?
- Harkins 17y agoThey could. One workaround is to record the IP address a post came from (generally a good idea) and keep showing it to that IP, too. They can still ask a friend to look, but the goal here is not to be perfect but to make any kind of improvement.
- kristiandupont 17y agoThat does require suspicion though. So I guess the less people know of this method, the better.