Roxy15

Enhance

Enhance

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Have any of you noticed she's been acting a bit odd lately? She's always had a unique posting strategy but it seems to have become more unusual in the last couple weeks.

Case in point, she started a thread in the Big Red Recipes sub forum on Oct. 30 with nothing but YouTube music videos. It's now more than six pages long and she's essentially the only person populating it with posts. That's 300+ videos in two weeks. For what it's worth, she started another thread in the same sub forum saying she hadn't been posting recipes because she hadn't feeling well recently, hadn't been eating much, and that we shouldn't give up on her.

I'm not sure there's really anything to do about it at this point. I mention it in case she's spoken to another mod/admin about anything. The thread is mostly harmless even though it's in the wrong sub forum. But, combine it with the misunderstanding she had with Big Ern a few weeks back, and it all just seems a bit wonky.

 
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Thanks for sharing your observation. It is always intriguing when there is an obvious, and on occasion abrupt, shift in the posting style of a board member. It certainly gets my mind wandering with speculation about what is going in their lives. We have many examples where members start becoming aggressive and irritable only to find out later (when they decide to share) that they were experiencing significant stress in their life.

Not sure what to make of what is going on with Roxy, as I have not heard anything. Hope the best for whatever she is going through.

 
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Quick backstory on why I'm updating this thread: I was in the recipes forum today when I noticed Roxy hadn't posted in awhile, and then I remembered she had had another one of her "blow ups," shall we say, last month. She posted in the Woodshed (April 17) and basically told people she would no longer be posting here.

So, I went to her profile page, and I noticed that one day after she posted in the Shed (April 18) she went and 'eye rolled' approx. six of Moiraine's posts in one thread in the football forum. Moiraine was one of the people who routinely trolled or tried to make light of the way Roxy behaved around here. So, I can only assume Roxy did this purely because of a personal grudge against Moiraine and not because of what Moiraine was posting.

Anyways, I don't know if it's really worth warning Roxy over or not. I think it would've been had I caught it at the time, but it now was more than a month ago and she hasn't posted since, although she's still visiting the board with regularity. Perhaps it's best to just document it here in case it becomes an issue again. Open to other thoughts/opinions if there are any, though.

 
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I agree with the no action. There have been times when I found old posts that would warrant a PM or warning to the member, if I read them when initially posted. My perspective is that mod action is to deter continued or future board violations, so if the member posted something that violates board rules in the past without mod review, I will check their current activity. If they seem to have self corrected, I leave it allow. Now, there would be some extremes (e.g., racial or sexual harassment) that I would take action no matter what.

 
Update:

Roxy came back to the board recently and started populating her song thread.

Moiraine has injected herself into it a couple of times which has resulted in Roxy taking not-so-subtle jabs at Moiraine (first, Roxy posted a song right after Moiraine's post that had the word 'b!^@h' in the title. Second, when Moiraine commented again, the next response from Roxy was a meme from the Wizard of Oz that said something along the lines of 'try me - the last b!^@h that did ended up under a house.’ All posts have been moved to Offending Posts.

Moiraine has been, shall we say, encouraged to leave Roxy alone in the past. I think it's fairly clear she's trying to antagonize Roxy. But, Roxy can't be doing that kind of stuff either. I also think Moiraine is finding this all amusing because she has brought up both incidents in the Shed.

 
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Enhance said:
Moiraine has been, shall we say, encouraged to leave Roxy alone in the past. I think it's fairly clear she's trying to antagonize Roxy. But, Roxy can't be doing that kind of stuff either. I also think Moiraine is finding this all amusing because she has brought up both incidents in the Shed.
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Can't be.  teachercd is the only troll who's allowed to do whatever he wants without repercussions.

 
Roxy sent me a PM yesterday asking me what she should do about Moiraine. Long story short, I told her to put Moiraine on Ignore and gave her instructions how to do it. She may reach out to Mav or Saunders for help though (I told her you may be able to help her with it with your admin tools, but wasn't sure).

I also told Roxy that, despite Moiraine's disappointing behavior, her own behavior has been reprehensible and that posting memes/songs with the word 'b!^@h' in them, and getting into a full blown personal argument with another member in a main forum, wasn't going to fly anymore. I'm willing to give Roxy a little bit of a leeway but I feel there's only so much wiggle room we can give someone, even someone in her position.

 
Thanks, Enhance. Reading through everything, I am sickened to see Moiraine is still taking jabs at Roxy after we explained in the Shed about Roxy's condition. I saw JJ also posted a bunch of songs with the word "crazy" in the title. Worse, JJ posted the song "Brain Damage" from Pink Floyd. I mean I love Dark Side of the Moon, but using one of the songs to attack Roxy, given her history with brain trauma, is really low.

With all that said, Roxy does need to refrain from personal attacks. I think your advice to put Moiraine on ignore is the best option for Roxy. As for Moiraine and JJ, I don't know what else we as mods can do other than start issuing suspensions. We have already made it known that Roxy's posting in that thread does not violate board policies.

 
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As for Moiraine and JJ, I don't know what else we as mods can do other than start issuing suspensions. We have already made it known that Roxy's posting in that thread does not violate board policies.
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I think Moiraine made a comment in the Shed that she's going to back off of Roxy's thread now that Roxy had a major blow up on her. (Also, FWIW, Roxy apologized for posting some of things and said she is going to just ignore Moiraine moving forward).

I didn't notice them posting songs about being crazy/brain damage. I know Moiraine knows about Roxy's situation and I think JJ does, too, so that's pretty pathetic behavior all things considered. I'm on board with you - what Roxy's doing doesn't violate board rules, but I think instigating her (and poking fun at her alleged mental disabilities) is low.

I get that her behavior is odd and even irritating, but if people just left it alone then I feel like it wouldn't be that big of a deal. If they continue to seek it out then they're part of the problem.

 
Roxy's behavior has become a point of discussion again. I'm not sure if anyone's opinion on the matter has really changed since last summer's stupid shenanigans, but I do think members are raising fair points and that it may be worth revisiting.

Much of Roxy's most recent activity includes what looks like little more than stuff she's found on Google and posted here to share. Other stuff seems like genuine things she's made. Either way, she's flooding the recipe's board. Of the 35 threads on page 1 of that sub forum, 33 are hers and all from the last 10 days. The other two are @knapplc and @JJ Husker trolling her.

Some new quotes from the DBHOF in the Shed. From JJ:

Aren't there almost limitless recipe sites more well suited? Problem is, not even those message boards, with people who are interested, would tolerate this type of posting behavior. It's being used as a personal filing cabinet that functionally doesn't even serve that purpose. It's just stupid.
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From RedSavage:

It never used to bother me too much but the fact that they're becoming the only thing you see when you look for new threads is getting really old.  At some point it needs to be regulated, IMO
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I think RedSavages' point is particularly perceptive because he's right - our "new topic" widget on the homepage is constantly (and almost exclusively) full Roxy's recipe threads.

Nobody else really uses that forum so, on one hand, it doesn't feel like a huge deal. But I guess it's also possible people feel completely turned off by it because it's so overloaded by Roxy. JJ has been one of the most ardent Roxy haters but the longer this behavior persists the more I see his perspective, even if it is pretty vindictive at times.

 
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I basically never use the "new content" part so I don't notice that as much.  But some people use it a lot so I can see how it could be annoying.

I tried looking at the settings for the forum to see if there were any options.  The only thing I can see that would help is to turn off the ability for users to see posts by other users (for that forum).  Since she's basically the only one who uses that forum, I disabled that for now, just to see how it works.

Of course, Moderators can still see them so it doesn't help us.  But it might help others.

 
Thanks Mav. I appreciate you taking a look at it and trying to find a technical solution. I was also sorry to see (but in no way surprised by) knapplc's reaction. (For the record, I think their suggestion of a Roxy recipe megathread is ridiculous and is mostly just a malicious attempt to minimize her footprint.)

Interestingly, @HUSKER 37 just expressed an interest to 'still be able to find Roxy's recipes in the future,' so I guess not everyone hates her contributions.

The main complaint(s) right now appears to be the sheer volume of threads she is creating and that it a) overloads the new topic widget and b) inhibits "interaction" in that forum. I do think they have a bit of a point. A rough analogy would be like somebody using the P&R forum as a dumping ground for dozens of links to political stories. I realize it's not a great analogy, but I imagine we would probably tell that person to stop if this was happening.

 
About the only other thing I can think of is to merge her posts at least into the category threads that are already pinned at the top of the forum.  It might be a little better than just having one mega thread but would keep it from being hundreds of one-post threads.

Of course, that put the onus on us to keep cleaning it up.  And I'm not really that fond of that idea.

 
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