goldfinger0303

I personally find the troll posts far more entertaining than most of the other stuff that goes here.

Hugo_Stiglitz

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HerrBayerischKaiser

If you are requesting official action, you don't have my support, although this is what you'd need:

1) Kestas' Approval
2) More Mods
3) A very clear list of rules
4) New mod powers to delete threads/posts

If you're talking about simply better self moderation, I'm with you.

I do NOT agree. We have muting now, what more do we need?

@semck83

Gas Chambers

We need to clean up the forum, semck83.

And muting isn't the answer to it.

We have to, as a community, just make it clear that we're not going to tolerate this anymore, and follow through on it...it's ridiculous, we can't start a thread now without a troll veering it into the ground...muting has no effect on such people.

They still troll threads along and bump them to the top to irritate others, or jump into threads just to derail them and get people angry at one another.

If we all muted them, it'd be the same as banning them from the forum, so that's not the answer, as clearly we can't ban them all, it'd never get through the mods.

We just have to ignore them or, when someone makes a remark just to be incindary and hurtful--Fasces' 9/11 thread comes to mind--roundly condemn them as a single, forceful group.



It's more a matter of self-moderation and forum unity over chaos and dis-unity.

@obi

You don't get it. Trolls love attention, good or bad. They'd love to have everyone publicly condemn them because it means people are paying attention to them. They're probably overjoyed by this post, too.

It's very simple. Don't respond to trolls. At all. If you can't control yourself, mute them.

@HS: lol.

@obi: OK, sorry. I misinterpreted you to be seeking censorship, which I more or less categorically oppose. I do agree with your suggestion that we all stop feeding them, and I apologize for having done so on the recent thread.

I know they're probably overjoyed by the post, abgemacht...

Let them come, so we can begin the ignoring (you're right, ignoring is better than condemning.)

I'd be interested to know how you tell the trolls apart from plain idiots.

sign me up. A bruce, a bruce!

I'm willing to participate in this upcoming war against the trolls.

Hmmmmmmmmm...not really sure about all this...what if when you take power, you are just as bad as the trolls were? I think Eric Blair would have a few things to say to you!

Manganese has a point. For those genuine trolls out there, here's your favourite treat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sEI1AUFJKw

I would sign, all that holds me back is fear of throwing the word "troll" around too much.

In general, just don't respond in threads you find offensive, or threads you wish did not exist, and do not respond to comments that you do not find to be productive or proper. This worked on mapleleaf and he is now mostly tolerable. So in that sense I am on board. The main thing is to avoid using the word "troll."

"You don't get it. Trolls love attention, good or bad. They'd love to have everyone publicly condemn them because it means people are paying attention to them. They're probably overjoyed by this post, too"
What Abge said, my 9/11 thread comes to mind.

It was also my facebook status, said status got 90 comments and 11 friends deleting me.

I think it was a success.

When I troll, all I am looking for is for people to start insulting me, swearing at me or condeming me in someway. If you do so. I WIN BITCHES!

lol

What if we just bait the trolls instead of feeding them, like me?

How you beat a troll is to troll them back. Beat them at their own game and make them the fool. Counter-trolling is a key to victory against the war on trolls.

We don't even really have trolls. True trolls manage to make it look like they might not actually be trying to be offensive. I'd almost say that Draugnar is the closest poster we have to a real troll. We just have immature assholes who like to be edgy and self-congratulatory. And verbose.

Protip: if you have to try to troll, you're doing it wrong.

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TC is a true troll... That guy has talent.

Alright, agreed, dD. TC is a genius troll. But that's the only one.

obi is also a troll.

Nobody can be THIS insipid.

lmao smiley.

its so hilarious how all the stupid shit we say is on the permanent record

honestly i fucken love this forum