Today's Trolling. — Page 2

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yhwx said:

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Posts like these should be banned.

moviefreakedmind said:

yhwx said:

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Posts like these should be banned.

If you saw what it was originally it would be much worse.

What I find interesting about this is that this seems to only be isolated to one person, presumebably Wario64. If we can find a way to just get him out, which may be hard to do due to such things like VPNs and proxies, I think 95% of this problem would be solved. The other 5% comes from the recent ad spam, whcich should be easy to solve.

Jetrell Fo said:

yhwx said:

One post per hour is too stringent. I mean, the Politics thread would be way less lively if that were the case.

Don’t you mean “you” would be less lively if that were the case?

I’ve been trying to get my post per day count down in the last couple of days, or at least making them have more content.

towne32 said:

yhwx said:

What I find interesting about this is that this seems to only be isolated to one person, presumebably Wario64. If we can find a way to just get him out, which may be hard to do due to such things like VPNs and proxies, I think 95% of this problem would be solved. The other 5% comes from the recent ad spam, whcich should be easy to solve.

I think you’re right. It’s unfortunate, since the forum is generally able to exist peacefully and mostly self-police. It works for the most part because of the relatively low traffic. But all this is exactly what this turdgobbler is exploiting. Assuming for a moment that Wario could eventually be permanently banned (he can’t) or that he would give up (this is probably all he has going in his life. He won’t), the site would still be wide open for the next little kid who wants to throw a tantrum.

On any given forum, even low-traffic ones, a certain level of 4chan style trolling is to be expected. The fact that we don’t have more of it here is the part that I find exceptional, rather than Wario’s continued presence.

I actually do think that a little bit of trolling in a forum is OK, kind of like how having people who disagree with the government is good for the government. This type of trolling, however, has no real benifit. It just makes everybody’s day shitty.

And at the end of the day I feel kind of sorry for whoever this is. (probably Wario) I mean, maybe life hasn’t been all that great for them, and since he’s not happy with that, chooes to take it out on other unassuming people. It’s sad, but that’s no excuse for the behavior.

towne32 said:

Sure. Trolling is kind of used as a catch all term. There’s minor trolling where someone’s just kind of being obnoxious a wink and a nudge. In my opinion, stuff like that (Frink) works here because of the small size of the community, though it does mean he’ll rub off the wrong way on new people, and a few older members. I’m sure many disagree, but they can probably see the difference between that and what Wario does.

This was mostly what I was talking about.

I agree with you that his life probably is very unfortunate. I disagree about caring whatsoever about it. People have much harder lives than him, surely, and manage to not to be totally shitty. Alternatively, he could quite likely just be a bored kid with nothing to do, especially as school as out at the moment.

I think me slightly caring in you not caring mostly comes down to a difference in our personalities.

Warbler said:

yhwx said:

I actually do think that a little bit of trolling in a forum is OK, kind of like how having people who disagree with the government is good for the government.

um, no. No amount of trolling is acceptable. If you have a problem with how the forum is being run, say so. Make a serious post about it. Trolling is not needed.

It’s just something that happens. I can tolerate it if it isn’t morbidly obscene or spam.

Bingowings said:

Stinky-Dinkins said:

Jeebus said:

Stinky-Dinkins said:

How often does this dude flood the main page with that sort of nonsense? This is the first time I’ve seen it.

Check out General Star Wars Discussion right now, and this CLIPPED

Jesus fucking Christ man remove that link, or at least put a warning. I’m at work! That could totally fuck someone over, I didn’t know he was posting porn I just saw the crazy thread titles.

Fuck me man.

I work at a mental health charity and while I was waiting for one of my clients to turn up I thought I’d check up on the site for a bit. It was lucky nobody saw what was calculatedly offensive material. I worry about the mental health if someone who repeatedly does this sort out of thing.

Well, I worry more about my job than that pathetic jackass Wario64 or whatever the fuck he’s called. I go to like 3 websites at work, this being one of them - I had assumed it was safe but I suppose that’s my mistake. I hadn’t the slightest clue this was a recurring problem with this weirdo, this was the first I’d seen of it. I imagine if IT was like “Well let’s see what he’s looking at today…” and then bam, pictures of bizarre cartoon porn starts coming up on my traffic I can’t imagine they’d be happy. My explanation would be equally confusing “No you don’t understand, I wasn’t looking for bizarre cartoon porn I was just checking out a Star Wars site and some sad lonely kid posted all those pics.” It’s no one’s fault but his, I don’t know how you’d prevent such a thing… it’s the digital equivalent of someone willing to key a stranger’s car for no good reason whatsoever. It’s just tremendously annoying.

I think his mental health is pretty clear - he’s probably alone, well on the pathetic side, and desperate for any sort of attention even if it’s negative. That sucks for him, but there’s nothing I can do about that. My employment health is of greater concern to me.

Jeebus said:

Warbler said:

maybe we are just disagreeing on the definition of trolling.

God damnit man, you ruined my joke. You were supposed to click on the link and I was gonna say “haha u got trold”.

Warbler is too classy for that.

Stinky-Dinkins said:

Bingowings said:

Stinky-Dinkins said:

Jeebus said:

Stinky-Dinkins said:

How often does this dude flood the main page with that sort of nonsense? This is the first time I’ve seen it.

Check out General Star Wars Discussion right now, and this CLIPPED

Jesus fucking Christ man remove that link, or at least put a warning. I’m at work! That could totally fuck someone over, I didn’t know he was posting porn I just saw the crazy thread titles.

Fuck me man.

I work at a mental health charity and while I was waiting for one of my clients to turn up I thought I’d check up on the site for a bit. It was lucky nobody saw what was calculatedly offensive material. I worry about the mental health if someone who repeatedly does this sort out of thing.

Well, I worry more about my job than that pathetic fuckface Wario64 or whatever the fuck he’s called. I go to like 3 websites at work, this being one of them - I had assumed it was safe but I suppose that’s my mistake. I imagine if IT was like “Well let’s see what he’s looking at today…” and then bam, pictures of bizarre cartoon porn starts coming up on my traffic I can’t imagine they’d be happy. My explanation would be equally confusing “No you don’t understand, I wasn’t looking for bizarre cartoon porn I was just checking out a Star Wars site and some sad lonely kid posted all those pics.” It’s no one’s fault but his, I don’t know how you’d prevent such a thing… it’s the digital equivalent of someone willing to key a stranger’s car for no good reason whatsoever. It’s just tremendously annoying.

I think his mental health is pretty clear - he’s probably alone, on the pathetic side, and desperate for any sort of attention even if it’s negative. There’s nothing I can do about that. My employment health is of greater concern to me.

While I do feel the slightest bit of emotion for this person, I do agree that this is unacceptable behavior. It is conceivable that someone could have lost their job for this. I think with most trolls, the intention is clear: Mild entertainment value for not that much effort. That’s what has happened here. The entertainment was getting a rise out of people. It’s sad, but that doesn’t make it acceptable.

towne32 said:

Sure. Trolling is kind of used as a catch all term. There’s minor trolling where someone’s just kind of being obnoxious a wink and a nudge. In my opinion, stuff like that (Frink) works here because of the small size of the community, though it does mean he’ll rub off the wrong way on new people, and a few older members. I’m sure many disagree, but they can probably see the difference between that and what Wario does.

Though Frink does annoy the shit out of me sometimes he’s still overall a genuine user like your saying. I think that’s the true distinction. Did you create an account to genuinely extend your love of Star Wars or to just troll people on a forum?

Warbler said:

I wish I had one of your jobs.

WE DON’T HIRE BIRDS WARBLER.