How do you get comfortable with Dlang.org's Forum?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 2/24/18 7:00 AM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
> On Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 04:41:44 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 04:18:29AM +0000, MattCoder via Digitalmars-d 
>> wrote:
>>> On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 13:47:16 UTC, biocyberman wrote:
>>> > 1. No post editing...
>>>
>>> You should be grateful for this, because I hate systems like: Forums, 
>>> Reddit and whatever, where people can edit/delete posts changing the 
>>> context of things.
>> [...]
>>
>> +1. In the old days, it was called "bait and switch". After people 
>> reply to an initial post, edit it and change it into something else 
>> completely. It was one of the trolls' favorite tools.
> 
> Last week I saw a video showing how a forum was shutdown because it was 
> alledgedly full of racists. The thread where there were "racist 
> comments" was in fact one where the initial question was ok, the answers 
> absolutely nice but then the troll changed the initial post to something 
> sinister and all the positive answers looked like agreement to the 
> racist slur of the first comment. It was then demonstrated that the 
> troll was a journalist from a big mainstream media. If I find the 
> article again I will give a link (it's in french though, might not 
> interest that much).
> 
> 

Wow, that's insane. I would be interested in seeing it.

-Steve