The ignore function is largely useless. There should be a block function similar to facebook, though it'd be much harder to implement in a forum I suppose.
Something that has been ongoing on ATRL for quite some time now is that known trolls will make an excessive amount of troll threads and will sometimes admit in those threads that they are trolling or just straight up post flamebait threads again & again, without any hesitation.
Sure, they get warned and are finally banned for 30 days. But then they comeback after 30 days and do the same exact thing again within the 1st hour of their arrival from banland.
Then the whole cycle starts again of them getting warned & eventually banned etc.
My question to the Mods is, why aren't those trolls permabanned when they do the same thing again & again?
There are a selective few trolls on this forum...and everyone from all fan bases knows who they are, and call them out all the time yet no severe action taken against them?
Why is that?
Why aren't those people who only troll on this forum, permabanned?
Why are they allowed to comeback after every 30 day ban period to do the same thing over again?
Why don't the Mod team take serious notic of it & put an end to their constant trolling?
I'm pretty sure dealing with the trolls & continually closing troll threads is a nuisance for the Mods, so why don't they put an end to it?
This is especially peculiar since there are many strict rules placed against certain things on ATRL, which make sense, YET one of the most prominent & excrutiatingly annoying activity is sort of allowed, in a way.
Why is that, Mods?
P.S. You guys do do a great job moderating the forum, but its just odd that something hasnt been done about a problem that ATRL is constantly riddled with when there is a solution for it...
Since I cannot name actual members without breaking the rules, I want to say some people deserve permapoints. I had them at one point and I learned my lesson. Give them to trolls please, it bothers me they get away Scott free every month.
I'm really focused on one member but I can name at least 4 who needs em!