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But people shouldn't have to ignore them.
If I was looking at joining the forum, and had a quick look through the most recent topics, I'd turn around and never look back.
Why should the majority have to turn a blind eye to a very small number of people who make the forum a tedious place to be?
How many potential users have they put off engaging in conversation?
My thoughts exactly and it does put me and a few off.
This thread is just like that: https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/the-different-ways-of-boosting.31382/
A user less than 1 year on TTD, that doesn't post much (and good percentage of his posts comes from this thread).
Very "innocently" and asks a question about boosting (just like so many other threads, and I see it as a normal question) and guess what, post 3 is a derail/confusion/attack.
Honestly speaking, any new user will have no clue what post 3 is about. Why? because old members just ignore, but how about newer members? left to take on something that is confusing and tedious?
Then my own thread here (I mean, how many videos can you leak out from top training center in the world?):
Post no 2, calls it fake news (because he doesn't agree to my comment as his internet search results proves he is right and I am wrong?).
Civilized conversation could be- Tony, are you able to back your claim of Li beating Dima?
so easy right? But you see, the intention was not to get the evidence.
Post no 4? Starts throwing insults.
I have since posted Li beating Dima's video and i'm sure the attack will not stop because the problem is not the content, but the enjoyment of attacking someone else.
If someone comes to TTD with the aims of cursing, not just 1 member, but numerous, then that is really a common denominator.
I do see old members trying to "calm him down", like here and the posts that follows
https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/screaming-during-play-illegal.31323/post-411131
That is not right.
Any new users coming onto these thread would be, wow, what is going on here.
I'm not sure if derail, or trolling or cursing/swearing or what ever is the violation, but quality of thread and forum has been severely affected by a few users.
Maybe I should just ignore them too, but will that fix the problem? It will fix my involvement in the escalation. But will it fix the quality of the thread/forum? I don't think so.