troll detectors

do we really need those self pro claimed troll detector on chess.com forum.

I have seen some topics where the "troll detector" misunderstood the topic and suddenly posted troll information totally off topic and ruining the topic because you have to scroll a large ugly picture.

furthermore it has the downside that it bumps the thread because it is a new post and you may not notice another post.

sometime the troll detector and the accused troll spent time on arguing again very off topic to the topic being discussed.

I don't think that posting info on trolls will stop people that are indeed trolls. but I guess we have forum administrators who can say something.

I think everything in here is a friendly envorenment and people can think for themself.

I think they sometimes help raising awareness about the fact that trolls can only exist if people feed them. "Don't feed the troll" is such a correct statement. But it does look offensive to the alleged troll, so there's a thin line here, which is difficult to be objective about.

At the risk of igniting those very arguments about trolling, perhaps you could post a discreet "Don't feed the "Don't feed the troll" anti-troll" graphic.

I agree with artfizz. It makes more sense that way.

I like to bump this thread since I have often seen that troll detectors have been wrong they have just not understood the topic or they didn't like the topic.