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Nymr83 May 24 2006 04:03 PM

Nymr83 May 24 2006 11:23 PM

if someone is trolling i should be allowed to post pictures of trolls without getting Redlighted.

Willets Point May 25 2006 12:56 AM

It adds nothing constructive to the conversation and deliberately provokes another cpf member. All well and good ... for the Red Light Forum.

Willets Point May 25 2006 01:11 AM

It should also be noted that the best way to deal with a troll is ignoring him/her, so if you believe you've found a troll posting pictures will just make the troll troll more.

Bret Sabermetric May 25 2006 02:08 AM

Also, he doesn't have a fucking clue what a troll is. Hint: it isn't someone you disagree with. It's someone who appears on your website posing as a sincere poster looking to engage in discussion but who (and this next word is kinda important) secretly is there solely to provoke you into arguing about stuff he has no real interest in, other than getting you all worked up about. I'm not secret about my agenda--I'm right up front about it--and I have a long-standing belief in what I'm saying, backed up by thousands of posts, the first few hundred of which (as Bret Sabermetric) no one confused with anything other than pure CPF-centric, and as far from trolling as could be possibly imagined. It's just when I began dealing with Nymr83 in a way he didn't like that all of a sudden I became, to his mind, a troll, which isn't how trolling works. It's how disagreement works. But if you throw enough shit at the wall, something will stick. Try again. "Stegosaurus," maybe?

metsmarathon May 25 2006 01:58 PM

from wikipedia: "In Internet terminology, a troll is someone who comes into an established community such as an online discussion forum, and posts inflammatory, rude or offensive messages designed to intentionally annoy and antagonize the existing members or disrupt the flow of discussion"

Elster88 May 25 2006 01:59 PM

metsmarathon wrote: from wikipedia: "In Internet terminology, a troll is someone who comes into an established community such as an online discussion forum, and posts inflammatory, rude or offensive messages designed to intentionally annoy and antagonize the existing members or disrupt the flow of discussion" Wow.

Nymr83 May 25 2006 04:22 PM

Elster88 wrote: ="metsmarathon"]from wikipedia: "In Internet terminology, a troll is someone who comes into an established community such as an online discussion forum, and posts inflammatory, rude or offensive messages designed to intentionally annoy and antagonize the existing members or disrupt the flow of discussion" Wow. i would argue Bret has been doing just that lately. steggosaurus is fun too, can i post one of those when you're being annoying or will that get redlighted? playing with the troll is more fun than ignoring it, sorry willets.

Bret Sabermetric May 26 2006 06:49 AM

]from wikipedia: "In Internet terminology, a troll is someone who comes into ... That my messages may have annoyed you "recently" makes me an annoying person recently. A prick, perhaps. An excellent choice for someone to be banned from the group. Just not a troll.

Yancy Street Gang May 26 2006 09:27 AM

So you have only 98% troll DNA. How proud you must be to have found that one little technicality. How about we say that you're a near-troll who's behaving like a purebred troll? I did some poking around in this forum this morning as part of my Friday visit, and most of the fun has been drained out of this place. I agree with Willet's hatchet sentiment. I don't care about whatever dispute is going on with you three. From my perspective, Edgy is handling this the best, by not saying anything publicly. Bret is handling it the worst, by having a prolonged public tantrum. Grow up already. You're acting like an 11-year-old with a good vocabulary. Tha't's it! I'm outta here!

Bret Sabermetric May 26 2006 10:02 AM

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Edgy is handling this the best, by not saying anything publicly. No, no, no, Yancy--that makes him a passive-aggressive dickwad. We've been having conversations lately via private e-mail, and I prefer communicating with him on the Forum so far. I had forgotten how pleasant it could be to have him stuff a sock in his mouth on the Forums, in comparison to trying to conduct a conversation with someone who really doesn't want to have a conversation. Imagine a conversation with an 11-year-old whose goal is to frustrate you by asking that every English word (including "us") be disputed before the substance gets discussed. He's a passive-aggressive dickwad. See? I don't really have all that highly developed a vocabulary.

Elster88 May 28 2006 11:48 PM

]Bret is handling it the worst, by having a prolonged public tantrum. Interesting theory.