Users abuse "alphabet" reactions - option to disable per server?

BigScary
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1. Users get their text into channels where they're not allowed to post.

2. Users do this instead of typing offensive language in all channels, making it impossible to find via text search.

 

Don't like the idea of adding an option to disable these alphabet reactions per server?  How about these alternative solutions:

1. Option to limit reactions to X number per user per message.  Bonus: limits reaction "spam" as well.

2. Sorting reactions by vote would often jumble these, and empower all the other users to easily scramble an offensive message with a couple of votes.

 

Yes I could ban users who do this, and I do.  But between the trolling and my eventual ban, the message is there offending my users and embarrassing my business.

Yes, I could try being more selective about who gets an invitation to the server, but many business models (like my free2play model) need to get people in the door in big numbers, so minimizing difficulty and process for potential customers is very important to me.

 

Thanks so much for the great product!

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  • Vox

    You could just disable reactions in the channel ^^

    + Would be better for server managers to know who are abusing of their powers and then kick them so it would resolve lot of problems so you're have a bette ambience 

    So yea if you have an annoncement/updates channel i recommend you to disable reactions !

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  • BigScary

    That comment about disabling reactions in the channel is a good one, but heavy-handed.  And it doesn't solve #2.

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  • Vox

    :O I don't see why it's heavy-handed, you could react with your own emojis and disable reactions it the channel like all servers, this way : users won't only be able to react with the already used emoji reactions. If there is something i forgot please do let me know

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  • BigScary

    Ah, I see your point - I hadn't considered that I could post my own reactions and let users "second" only those.  Still, taking away (nearly) all reaction options because a troll might appear is far more than necessary.  Blocking just the alphabet reactions on a server level would fix the trolling and chat search dodging across all channels without taking-away any reaction options that aren't problematic.  I guess you might argue that sometimes people use emojis to communicate in code (eggplant is the most famous example I can think of), but for me personally I don't see code as a problem, whereas explicit language is for us.

    Thanks so much for taking the time to think about this.  :)  I have already taken your advice for my news channel as a mitigation, meanwhile I hope to get an option to better-solve #news and also do something to address the rest of our channels.

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