[BreShiE]

This was one of the problems I remember having as former staff member - false reports, because someone was offended, took a response to seriously, or was just trolling. I'm pretty sure at least one or more of the reported posts was on account of "being a nigger", "stupid", or "ban pls", with no context whatsoever. This made it increasingly difficult to ascertain whether it was an actual report or not, as well as piling up over the real ones.

That said, it'd be nice if we didn't have to deal with such posts when possible. It seems to me that most of the LQ posting comes from arguments, flaming and trolling most of the time.

For the former, calling someone stupid without any context just because they provided a statement completely undermines your argument, and makes you look childish in front of everyone. If you have a point, prove it maturely; if it turns out that, well, they're right, admit it. I'm not kidding when I say the scariest thing to say on the Internet is that someone else is right, but it happens, people.

For the latter, it goes without saying that responding to trolls is literally the worst thing possible; you're giving them attention to instigate more useless discussion that drives people away from the real topic at hand, or worse, brings them into the fray. It comes down to three choices on what you can do:

1. Report and ignore them. Recommended.
   
2. PM them. Not really recommended, but if you HAVE to call someone a dong on the interent, at least do it in a place where nobody has to see it.
   
3. Join in Please don't.
   

I don't think we should worry so much about getting high quality threads and posts to cover up the low quality threads, more so that we should take action to avoid low quality threads all together, so the actual discussion comes in naturally, not forced.

The point of this thread is everyone who's posting on the forum complaining about the low quality threads/posts or complaining about SL being down/unavailable or some other problem which will be fixed, is not helping at all. In fact, it's just stockpiling more LQ threads/posts and just tarnishes the content on SL. Which is why I think the members should focus on being more HQ instead of just bitching at each other.

SL used to be a place with few member quarrels and I believe it should return to such stance.

Also I agree with what you said about the reports. I encountered more reports with such descriptions than actual legit reports in my time as staff. However I looked past the report description and checked out the post for myself to see if it broke SL's rules. I would also PM the reporter if the LQ reports continue and if need-be, warn those not reporting threads/posts correctly after repeat offences and a verbal warning. Perhaps I should write up a thread on how to properly report a thread/post?