The Comment Section Has Been Purged
To all those unaware of what I'm talking about - this site has had a troll infestation problem for some years now. It's been left unattended for too long, and the toxic users have became a regular pain in the ass. Especially to the staff that had to keep the comments free of racism homophobia and other kinds of irate behavior that would make people think ill of the website's community.
Some weeks ago PepperPeanut decided that he needed to take drastic measures in fighting those goons. He's won the battle, which is pretty amazing, and I was surprised at how fast it went. I seriously thought that it wouldn't work.
As many of you have already noticed there was this COMMENTS DISABLED thingy for most of the featured media. After some time, the comments have been enabled, but there's a new rule now, that the comments need to be relevant. Rightfully so, since there's a chat available for every logged in member you can access from the bottom right corner of the browser.
Now that the comments are on, you'd imagine the toxic users that have been lurking for so long to try and take over the site. WRONG! The several idiots who tried have been banned, and since the limit inbetween comments has been raised to 3 minutes, it's not so easy to flood the comments with inane babble.
Right now, thanks to Pepper and the gang, the comments are becoming more normal each day, with normal users not shying away from commenting, since they're no longer getting attacked by autistic trolls and their toxic comments. Very nicely done. Even the Pool (the chatroom) is no longer crowded with them. They probably realised their defeat and left to some shit site adequate to their low intellect. Which is great.
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