I just got this idea indirectly from a recent forum topic. 

Trolling in the chess.com forums is a problem and we all know this.  So how do we combat this overwhelming problem?

"The Troll Feeder Kill Squad"

A team of moderators (who will remain unknown to anyone except the owners of chess.com) will troll the forums looking to bait other forum participants into responding to their asinine and provocative posts. Their member points will be manipulated so they do not appear to be too active no matter how many times they troll and if someone happens to respond to them ever that person will automatically be removed from the site with their I.P. address logged so they cannot join again.

It's sort of like how Dateline on NBC catches those perverts looking for minors. 

What do you think?

This seems to me to be a lot more proactive than the current system of just reporting abuse. 

You'll never know if you are responding to a cheat squad member or just another person.  And the threat of automatic account deletion will be immediate and not take the staff's time in going over posts that have been reported.

Once the trolls here realize that no-one will respond to them they will simply move on and the forums will no longer be plagued by the trolling (or discourse) problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrapment

If this laudable proposal for LLORTing (i.e. anti-trolling) went unfed, how ironic would that be?

I'd say more appropriate than ironic -- I didn't think it would be so effective so quickly....

That's a hit below the belt.

Do you guys know that points do absolutely nothing? I prefer the old lock up topics; I remember a few of mine did, way back when...

What would be even better is if the "Kill Squad" members were given actual statutory approval to track down and literally kill those people who feed the trolls. It only seems fair. Oh, and also those people who disagree with this proposal must, logically, be secretly harbouring thoughts of feeding trolls themselves, and so must suffer the same righteous fate.

I've spotted at least one flaw with this approach: if these are premium trolls , chess.com will lose out on membership renewal fees. What's needed is a scheme with fewer economic consequences.

I don't feed trolls, I don't want to waste any of my money buying food for them, like meat, fish, vegetables, and pasta.

I don't feed trolls, I don't want to waste any of my money buying food for them, like meat, fish, vegetables, and pasta.

TheGrobe,

1.  How does someone ever come up with tha solution?  As sablewhist pointed out, in real life, it is illegal. 

2. Why trick people into screwing up?  What's the point?  Do you take pleasure in seeing accounts get deleted?

3.  Artfizz brings up a good point: what about members?  Either money would be lost or there would be conflicts about member favoritism.

With the time that's passed, the context for this thread is lost.  This thread was a hyperbolic response to this one:

How does one make any search to find the information she/he wants?

Don't worry, I got it.

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/i-have-the-solution-to-stop-cheating-in-live-chess

Thanks -- I could swear I did the "cut" part..., can't recall for certain about the "paste" though.