Pushing a little bit of direct feedback to the trolls might go a long way toward solving the problem. When a report is filed against someone, two things should happen:

1. The person who has been reported is automatically blocked and ignored for the person who files the report. If the person who has been reported then tries to communicate with the person who reported them, they get a message informing them that they have been blocked, along with the report category for the block (stalking, harassment, racial slurs, etc.)

2. The person who has been reported gets a message informing them that they have been reported. The ID of the person who reported them is not included, to prevent retaliation.

Once these alerts and messages start piling up, some of these trolls might see the error of their ways. At the very least, seeing a long stream of messages with subjects such as, “You have been reported for racist comments” or “You have been reported for stalking” will give them some insight into how they’re seen by the rest of the Home community.

If that doesn’t cut down on the problem, it’s time to go nuclear. Rack up 10 reports in a certain period of time, you get suspended until moderation can review your case. Given how busy the moderators are, that’s probably a week.

Moderating and then banning is a bit too much of a cart before the horse situation. Will some innocent people get suspended? Probably. Is that a reasonable price to pay for solving the problem? Unless you value your personal convenience over having a more respectful online community, yes, it is, and any group of people who false report to get an innocent user banned should face a one-month suspension, to deter that type of behavior.

These are simple fixes that are long overdue. If Sony sends a message that harassment and stalking will not be tolerated, it won’t stop entirely, but the incidents of it will go down dramatically.

For the days I just can’t be bothered, I find the ignore tab to be all I need

I guess what I am asking is: “Is it a corporation’s job to monitory what society finds relatively acceptable behavior?” And honestly it still is acceptable -right along with that sense of entitlement that things should be free or that anyone deserves anything simply for breathing.

Honestly this is what I have found. I do not have much of a problem with “trolls.” I mean yes sometimes there are some obnoxious punks that jam themselves between you and whomever you are talking too… and that can get annoying esp. if the convo is a serious one. And I can lose patience and leave. But I remember this kid the other day that just kept on racing around my friends and I and he slowed down enough when we just ignored him and asked why we were not talking with him.

And we told him. “you are not conducting acceptable behavior.”

He said “Its just a game.”

And we replied, “The hearts and minds of the people here are real.”

And miracle of miracles he stopped and thought about it and changed his behavior.

I think maybe optimistically that two out of three just are young and don’t get it. The rest are living out their evil suppressive fantasies and there are some chicks that dig that too. Me, I am not so much in the sadomasochism thing.

But you see I try to conduct myself (for the most part) like a lady. I usu. give them the benefit of the doubt, and if I don’t like it I announce that I am going to leave and that is usu. enough for the people I am talking with to go with me or to put the shut down on the troll person.

I do think it would be nice to (as mentioned in another article) be able to ghost someone -like blocking their conversation(which I do if there are sexual or racial slurs -after reporting them).

The inability to get a reaction is usu. entirely off-putting to these creepers. So you know there is room for improvement. But I don’t think it should get anyone woman down. Its not the lovely ladies after all -its the cretins that are slinging all the dirt that have the shortcoming.

But, always, just in case, I carry a big stick to paddle them with if they refuse to behave. LOL.

My assessment of the given situation is annoying not devastating. But perhaps the marketing in the Hub would be more effective if I felt like staying to have a conversation as opposed to leaving to get away from trolls.