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Not to be too prudish, but I’m not inclined to approve sbc1983’s initial post. Bumping a thread that hasn’t been posted in for 7 years to discuss masturbation in a skeevy way. Some background as to why I’m leery:
Earlier this year I saw some troubling things in the reporting tools for this site that show phrases that people use in search engines to find things on our site. The same troubling phrases appeared again and again in the logs but one search in particular contained a specific thread number. I looked the thread up and it touched on the phrases people were searching on. I pulled the full access logs and found that multiple IPs from all over were frequenting that particular thread that hadn’t been posted in for several years. Logs showed that similar searches had been going on for over 2 years.
I conferred with Curt and the thread was quietly deleted because it was old, no one would notice it vanish, and it was attracting the wrong attention. After the thread was deleted all the searches dried up.
The thread that sbc1983 is attempting to bump isn’t anywhere near as bad as the inadvertent attention the other thread was receiving but I bring this up because the initial post by sbc1983 reminded me of the experience with the other thread. I believe there’s a group out there with a fetish and they may be using old threads here to feed it.
I see several options:
1) Allow the post. My concern with this is that sbc1983 may be purposely bumping the thread to generate new posts from other users with the intent to use those replies to attract fetishists.
2) Don’t allow the post.
3) #2 and delete the user.
4) #2, #3, and delete the thread.
I didn’t get any hits on the email they used to register.
Thoughts?
I had looked at the post before coming here and share the reservation. I’m not prudish either and had even responded in that thread 7 years ago. I can’t remember the username of the guy that was here a year or so ago that only wanted to talk about sex, but that’s what came to mind when I read this post – the voice in my head said “Really, someone’s first post is responding to a sex post from 7 years ago?” No to option 1. I’d propose an option 5 – don’t allow the post and delete the thread and give the user the benefit of the doubt. If he just tries the same thing with another thread then delete him. I am also OK with option 4 though.
Interesting research by the way. I can’t say I’m surprised. I will say that with that knowledge I’m a little surprised it doesn’t happen more often.
Ack! I approved it just now because I felt that it wasn’t much different from the preceding ones. I was actually surprised the topic had been broached before. If you want to go back and unapprove it, that’s easy enough. My instinct is to see if anyone else comments and if this person comments on other posts (and how they do so). I think not doing anything yet is the best option. We always can shut it down, if necessary. How funny. I did just comment. I am in the camp of giving sbc1983 the benefit of the doubt and keeping options open in case this becomes a problem later on.
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