The Griefers have arrived.

I've noticed a few people start new threads & then delete the very first post so you can't see what the thread was about. This needs to be controlled before it gets out of hand.

How is that griefing?

Simply use the Community Rating Tool as intended and these posts will get taken care of.

quick! someone quote them before they do it!

I think posting about them just gives them more of what they want, attention.

"I think posting about them just gives them more of what they want, attention."

If you don't want to use the rating tool or can't wait, just look for a moderator that is online and send a PM.  There is a list of us in the Forum FAQ sticky.

"If you don't want to use the rating tool or can't wait, just look for a moderator that is online and send a PM.  There is a list of us in the Forum FAQ sticky."

Lind, can you help me out please and negatively rate the second post in this thread - I just noticed that if the original poster deletes his first post in the topic, the option to rate it isn't there anymore and I'm not sure the community rating tool works on anything but the first post.

http://www.giantbomb.com/river-city-ransom/61-6608/test/35-10696/

"duxup said:

"I think posting about them just gives them more of what they want, attention."

Hiding it & pretending it isn't a problem is not a way to handle it."

Just as I thought.  The reporting function only works on the first post in a thread...if it gets deleted, there is no way for the community to notify the mods through rating.  I'll send the guys a note about this and see what can be done.  Personally I'd like to see the ability for people to delete their own forum posts removed - especially if it's the first post in a topic.

For these types of posts, just notify a moderator (or all of us) directly via PM until the staff comes up with a better way.

"Just as I thought.  The reporting function only works on the first post in a thread...if it gets deleted, there is no way for the community to notify the mods through rating.  I'll send the guys a note about this and see what can be done.  Personally I'd like to see the ability for people to delete their own forum posts removed - especially if it's the first post in a topic.

For these types of posts, just notify a moderator (or all of us) directly via PM until the staff comes up with a better way."

"Lind_L_Taylor said:

"duxup said:

"I think posting about them just gives them more of what they want, attention."

Hiding it & pretending it isn't a problem is not a way to handle it."

Who said we should do that?"

The ability for users to delete the first post in a forum topic has been removed.  In addition, special characters can no longer be used as the only part of a title.

-Mike

I think people get used to gamespot where when you delete the first post, the whole thread gets deleted.
So I think thats what many people have been doing.