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LadyNTrainer -> RE: Ethical response to a mentally disturbed individual on CM? (5/23/2010 2:50:12 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Loki45
A better question is what do you do when you realize the number of those people is actually growing. Redact all you like...a large number of us here know exactly the ones you mean (or at least the ones *we* think are mentally disturbed). They often start threads in the political forums and make the wildest claims you can imagine.
While I agree that this raises additional issues, my concern is primarily about how to keep serious discussions from being derailed because someone is randomly inserting provocative, disturbing statements that are basically trolling for attention. This thread itself is an excellent example. So far we've had posted that it would be exciting to be contacted by a 12 year old girl on an adult site, that murderers go to heaven because they don't know they're doing anything wrong, that the American constitution should be enshrined on CM and that Chinese dictators are evil and oppressive. People being people, there have been various responses to these statements that aren't doing much for the original topic except to illustrate the problem clearly.
On the Politics forum at least some of this is on topic and not a thread derailment. When there's a totally different topic and somebody trolls it in a disturbing enough way that everybody basically stops talking to deal with the disturbance, that's a problem if it happens consistently. Which it does on some forums here, unfortunately.
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