Muted jimgov, confirmed

Basically, you'd want to mute someone because you don't want to hear about him.
But... "so that we can mock the trolls one more time".

Muting someone and discussing about him, that's really lame. But it's true that you're offering something in terms of comedic results (even if those weren't your intentions), so I am hesitant: should I mute you?

Mmm....

Muted jimgov, confirmed.

"muting players that have consistently been trolls on this site"

But it doesn't let me mute the mods

You have trolled the mods 3 times today, but it doesn't let them bounce or mute you.

2 times today

first the angry men thread, then the angry men song, now the mute the mods post. I understand how you count though, but you get the point.

I once muted someone. It lasted for 45 seconds, before I decided to unmute. If you mute the trolls, the trolls win.

No hecks. That's what I originally thought. If enough people mute the trolls, it will just be them trolling each other. And then we all win.

There's something really deconstructive about muting someone. It's like you can't handle their speech, to the point where you need to enforce their silence.

They're also something counterproductive about announcing your muting. It provokes the trolls, and then those of us who don't mute people hear the trolls even more loudly. In effect, by announcing your mutes, you are trolling the trolls. If you're going to mute, mute quietly, and go in peace.

"They're also"? Grammar fail. I meant "There's also".

In fact following that line of reasoning jimgov you are a Nazi

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/37162448.jpg

You got it the wrong way around SY.

A troll is someone who's speech is meant only to deride yours, to mock yours, to reduce yours to unimportant jibberish. The natural reaction is to try and reinforce your speech with more arguments, but then the Troll has the satisfaction of seeing you move away from your point and into a defense of who you are (he'll of course help you get there with a few ad hominem attacks). At the end of the day, the Troll's speech really serves but one end: bring you out from behind what you're saying, expose you, so that he may turn the ridicule on you.

Muting the troll is taking away the only thing he has to see this happen. It's not saying you can't 'deal with his speech'. It's recognizing that there is no 'dealing with' since his speech is not articulating any idea: it's a functional tool used to attack people, not ideas. Muting means taking the tool away, not the desire to confront your ideas in a respectful environment.

"[a troll's] speech is not articulating any idea: it's a functional tool used to attack people, not ideas"

Where do you draw the line? It's quite easy to accuse somebody of trolling because you disagree with their opinions. Ex. "abortionists are evil and should all die" - if this is a genuine opinion and you mute it for trolling, you're ignoring a bigger issue, and choosing which opinions are "legitimate". This is why I was opposed to the silencing of blankflag.

I favored the silencing of Blankflag because he kept using the forums to promote his stupid news site. Of course, that wasn't the reason given for his silencing, so I'm ambivalent. (Mind you that's ambivalent, meaning pulling in two directions, not indifferent. People often use indifferent and ambivalent interchangeably, but there's an important difference in their meanings.)

I feel that you were only opposed to this because it was a "stupid" news site, rather than a good news site.

Imagine a user signing up and talking on the forums about his really informative and well-presented news site. It's hard to believe he would have been silenced, even if, post for post, he fundamentally was the same as blankflag.

Not true! I never even checked it out, so I can guarantee you that the quality of the site didn't impact my decision. It was the intrusive and repeated self-promotion that bothered me.

Well the quality of his posts, as well. Articulation is an important part of it. I dare say that if blankflag wrote full sentences with capital letters and full stops he might not have been silenced.

I checked it out. Picture putting all of the conspiracy theory threads together, really poorly, on one page. Then put them in random boxes, use no capitalization or punctuation, and then give it a color scheme that would make your eyes bleed. THAT is his site.

You may be right about that, but there are lots of people around here with equally poor grammar who don't get silenced. His writing skills alone didn't get him silenced.

By the way, when's his month up? It's got to be coming soon, right?

Wait... April 10 was his last reply on the forum. Shouldn't he be back by now?

lol i trol u!!11!1!11

Sadly I don't think he will come back

I know he muted me, but tell Jimgov, I just plus oned him and that I'm sorry for offending his sensibilities. I'm not sorry for having fun trolling, but I respect his decision and won't be abusive about it in any way as I don't believe in picking on someone who can't defend himself.

@Jimgov, Draug says,
"I know he muted me, but tell Jimgov I just plus oned him and that I'm sorry ... I respect ... him..."

"I know he muted me, but tell Jimgov, I just think he's a huge fag and that I'm sorry for offending his "sensibilities". I'm not sorry for having fun trolling, but I won't be abusive about it in any way as I don't believe in picking on someone who can't defend himself." - Draugnar

Ahhhhhh ha ha ha! If you will *please* look up my most recent "conversations" with jimgov, you will see this: I post a point of discussion, and then jim-bitch replies with insults.

I suggest he answer my points, instead of just throwing insults, and jim-bitch replies with more insults.

jimgov apparently has the intellectual capability of a gnat...about on par with bo-sox...and I apologize to the gnat for insulting him.

Grow up, baby boy jim-bitch. Come back when you have learned how to talk with the adults and learned how to actually contrsuct and argument based upon facts and such.

Until then, Goooood riddance, and thanks for muting me. It will be a pleasure to not have you responding to my posts with mindless insults.