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Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-10 16:46:07
June 10 2010 16:45 GMT
#61
What if you intelligently argue a stupid position in order to make someone call you a troll, and they get banned for using it incorrectly, even though you were actually trolling them into the ban?

I think we just stumbled upon the metagame of trolling.

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Please don't ban me. ._.
ModeratorNow I'm distant, dark in this anthrobeat
cemlions
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada43 Posts
June 10 2010 16:48 GMT
#62
It seems like the best decision is to ignore trolls completely, and not even aknowledge the good ones.
I knew I wasn't a noob cause I just didn't feel good when I was noobing out
Lexpar
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
1813 Posts
June 10 2010 17:12 GMT
#63
On June 11 2010 01:48 cemlions wrote:
It seems like the best decision is to ignore trolls completely, and not even aknowledge the good ones.



I don't think I understand. Explain?
MamiyaOtaru
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States1687 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-10 17:20:43
June 10 2010 17:19 GMT
#64
On June 11 2010 00:45 ]343[ wrote:
trolling is a coverup for stupidity

Often it is so. Everyone has seen this, so I'm not posting the image in the thread, but it makes me laugh.

Unrelated: my favorite troll event was the Pokéclipse. Made as a parody of Digiclipse, many people thought it was a sincere site and trolled it, not knowing it was run by trolls. Some of the people who kept doing so even after it was revealed the site wasn't serious were probably trolling by pretending not to know. Some gullible people thought the site was for real (but they might have been trolls). There was speculation that Digiclipse itself was a troll site, and the whole Pokéclipse group got trolled. It was like a giant onion, layers of trolls trolling trolls, and so much more delicious than someone accusing someone he doesn't agree with of being a troll.

On June 11 2010 02:12 Lexpar wrote:
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On June 11 2010 01:48 cemlions wrote:
It seems like the best decision is to ignore trolls completely, and not even aknowledge the good ones.

I don't think I understand. Explain?

If you don't feed them they usually go away
CursOr
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States6335 Posts
June 10 2010 17:37 GMT
#65
Someone literally posted a video of the "troll" by the bridge.

Wow. Seriously? A video even?

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It's got nothing to do with being mean or getting into an argument. It's about getting other people caught up in it and letting them argue. It's 2 different words of Troll. That's the problem.
CJ forever (-_-(-_-(-_-(-_-)-_-)-_-)-_-)
QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32051 Posts
June 10 2010 17:39 GMT
#66
On June 11 2010 02:12 Lexpar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 11 2010 01:48 cemlions wrote:
It seems like the best decision is to ignore trolls completely, and not even aknowledge the good ones.



I don't think I understand. Explain?


You're trying to incite e-riots when you troll. If no one gives you a reaction—the single and only purpose of trolling—you have failed, and you must commit seppuku with your keyboard.
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CursOr
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States6335 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-10 17:43:37
June 10 2010 17:42 GMT
#67
The use of the word "Troll" as a noun is actually incorrect.

You are not a Troll. You are Trolling. Or... you can Troll (as you would Troll waters for fish) but you can not be a fucking "Troll". If you really know what the word means. In fact, up untill this thread, I'd be surprised if I even used that word 3X in over 2000 posts- because its not meant to be a Noun. It's a verb.
CJ forever (-_-(-_-(-_-(-_-)-_-)-_-)-_-)
eLiE
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada1039 Posts
June 10 2010 17:44 GMT
#68
lol, it was interesting to learn the fishing background of the word troll. that was all i got out of the post, but i can totally understand people tossing the word around whenever there's an argument, which is silly.
How's the weather down there?
L0thar
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
987 Posts
June 10 2010 18:02 GMT
#69
On June 11 2010 02:42 cursor wrote:
The use of the word "Troll" as a noun is actually incorrect.

You are not a Troll. You are Trolling. Or... you can Troll (as you would Troll waters for fish) but you can not be a fucking "Troll". If you really know what the word means. In fact, up untill this thread, I'd be surprised if I even used that word 3X in over 2000 posts- because its not meant to be a Noun. It's a verb.


I was just gonna ask if "troller" shouldn't be the correct term then...
koreasilver
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
9109 Posts
June 10 2010 18:25 GMT
#70
On June 11 2010 02:19 MamiyaOtaru wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 11 2010 00:45 ]343[ wrote:
trolling is a coverup for stupidity

Often it is so. Everyone has seen this, so I'm not posting the image in the thread, but it makes me laugh.

But that isn't really a troll. That's just being a fucking idiot, like I said before.
flamewheel
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
FREEAGLELAND26781 Posts
June 10 2010 18:37 GMT
#71
\o/ intrigue!
Writerdamn, i was two days from retirement
Subversive
Profile Joined October 2009
Australia2229 Posts
June 10 2010 18:40 GMT
#72
On June 11 2010 01:19 Roffles wrote:
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On June 11 2010 00:21 Chill wrote:
Metagame is coming up next.

Oh my lord, yes. Just yes. Ever since that one day I popped in Mystlord's stream and saw everyone using the word meta in every single freaking word, I've been waiting. Make it happen!

I thought Chill was already on top of this one? I remember his sig being Do you know what metagame means? Do you really? Or something to that effect. Anyway, agreed. It is horribly misused and just generally over-used.
#1 Great fan ~ // Khan // FlaSh // JangBi // EffOrt //
elmizzt
Profile Joined February 2010
United States3309 Posts
June 10 2010 18:45 GMT
#73
Thank you for this, Intrigue. Thank you so much. It's about damn time.
d=(^_^)z
hyst.eric.al
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States2332 Posts
June 10 2010 18:50 GMT
#74
On June 10 2010 23:13 7mk wrote:
Wtf.. I was gonna link to fanatacist's guide to trolling but he edited it and removed the whole thing.. T_T

Anyways, fully agree with this, theres way too many examples like seppolevne posted, let the banhammer fly...
didnt know about the origin coming from fishing thats funny
(and lol at trolling/trawling)
i miss that article, it was pure gold. it was actually the very first article i ever read on TL haha.

i wish i knew what happened to paper and decafchicken and which thread they got their respective bans though
Leta , BeSt, Calm fan forever! 김정우, I am sorry I ever lost faith in you.
avilo
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States4100 Posts
June 10 2010 19:07 GMT
#75
On June 11 2010 03:45 elmizzt wrote:
Thank you for this, Intrigue. Thank you so much. It's about damn time.


Amen. It was getting annoying reading threads and when someone runs out of points to argue or has a differing opinion, you'd see them go, "are you just trolling?"
Sup
cgrinker
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States3824 Posts
June 10 2010 19:15 GMT
#76
Are we also going to ban people that misuse "irony" or are redundant through the use of "literally"
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
June 10 2010 19:21 GMT
#77
I think we should just ban people at random once a week. Every poster has a number, and an RNG selects the one to get temp banned for a week. It would make this forum more interesting. I would willing participate if at least 50 other people said they would too.
LEGEND!! LEGEND!!
Subversive
Profile Joined October 2009
Australia2229 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-10 19:26:36
June 10 2010 19:26 GMT
#78
On June 11 2010 03:50 hyst.eric.al wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 10 2010 23:13 7mk wrote:
Wtf.. I was gonna link to fanatacist's guide to trolling but he edited it and removed the whole thing.. T_T

Anyways, fully agree with this, theres way too many examples like seppolevne posted, let the banhammer fly...
didnt know about the origin coming from fishing thats funny
(and lol at trolling/trawling)
i miss that article, it was pure gold. it was actually the very first article i ever read on TL haha.

i wish i knew what happened to paper and decafchicken and which thread they got their respective bans though

You can just go to their profile and check their recent posts... wouldn't take more than a few minutes to find a recent ban.
#1 Great fan ~ // Khan // FlaSh // JangBi // EffOrt //
seppolevne
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada1681 Posts
June 10 2010 19:48 GMT
#79
And for those quick to call troll:
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
J- Pirate Udyr WW T- Pirate Riven Galio M- Galio Annie S- Sona Lux -- Always farm, never carry.
PokePill
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1048 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-10 19:50:19
June 10 2010 19:50 GMT
#80
the holy trinity of teamliquid as of 06/10/2010:
bonjwa, metagame, and troll


Eh you guys can't really say it's a big part of TeamLiquid because you stomp out troll posts pretty fast and close the threads.
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