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On November 12 2006 16:49 useless wrote:
Its breadcat. I have that as my AIM icon :3
Also, topics wont be all that active if all we have are "contributing posts". A person makes a topic which is supposed to either contribute, or ask for contributers. If the latter sense, yeah, we could weed out the shitty posters. But if its say, someone just showing off a replay or a story, then how are people supposed to respond to that? "lol that was really funny because ... , especially when youre mentioned pt 1, pt 2, pt 3." Yeah, theres crap posts, but whats really expected of us?
I think that was explained pretty well in the opening post. They aren't saying that you can't post one-liners, they're just saying if you're going to post a one-liner make it useful to the thread in general.
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On November 11 2006 22:50 Physician wrote:
There is many types of trolls. Klogon mentions one aspect of trolls. Some trolls do more than that though.
There are purely attention seeking trolls. They do what they do because they are mainly seeking attention, even if it is in a negative and misguided way - the pissing off part is a by product. These guys are sometimes just passive aggressive personalities which can be easily be confused as pure trolls.
Nevertheless, there are even worse kinds of trolls. There is the "I am completely selfish and I don't care if you die" type of troll that loves being nasty and participates just to be able to hurt or harm other people. These too, are misguided haters with a deep feeling of inadequacy, i.e. the classic forum wanabe "e-bully".
Then there is the worst kind of all, the ones that do it with the specific intentional goal of ruining the forum, every thread and creating constant havoc . They usually are members of other failing forums, or that have already been rejected by another forum, who deep down are on a mission, consciously or unconsciously to ruin their new host forum.
The first two you can actually correct with time, though it is generally not worth the time, but the last type one needs to burned at the stake the second you smell 'em out - no hesitation.
You are wrong, there's one more type of troll, the worst I've ever seen. The kind of troll who isn't satisfied with just flaming you online, but might also come to your house, beat you up, and eat you. (ala hovz) I've included a picture of what such a troll might look like. ![[image loading]](http://www.davedorman.com/i/art/Magic/Troll.jpg)
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United States20661 Posts
Reign of Terror again oO;;
So, which mod are we calling Robespierre? ^^V
Lots of nuke icons.
Too early to say if I like it personally, will see in a week. I did notice the number of trash posts/threads going up in the past few months.
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the ban on one post thing is incorrect i think. I was banned solely for my 11th post : )
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Hey that troll looks familiar. It was the pic for some MTG card, if I remember correctly.
Detonate, didn't you get a warning PM first? Or was it that bad?
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On November 12 2006 12:15 Gene wrote:Show nested quote +On November 12 2006 12:13 ml1710 wrote:
Klogon, is your icon a bread + cat hybrid?
 dude its kittyloaf. i dont even know what to say.
the hell is a kittyloaf
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On November 12 2006 18:25 penitent exile wrote:
Reign of Terror again oO;;
So, which mod are we calling Robespierre? ^^V
Lots of nuke icons.
Too early to say if I like it personally, will see in a week. I did notice the number of trash posts/threads going up in the past few months.
Yeah I see a lot of people who were like "common" posters in here, getting the Icon, I know somehow I will get it, but I don't care. If I'm being banned for being a shitty poster, is their will and I am not going to cry about it. I am, though, sad to see some people get banned T_T;
Anyways, I hope this keeps the forum clean, and as Entropy said, lets hope the new rules make old TL.net come back  .<3<3 (mensrea days  )
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On November 12 2006 18:42 Detonate wrote:
the ban on one post thing is incorrect i think. I was banned solely for my 11th post : )
If you make shitty posts early on in your posting career, your career will most certainly end short.
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On November 12 2006 19:08 funKie wrote:Show nested quote +On November 12 2006 18:25 penitent exile wrote:
Reign of Terror again oO;;
So, which mod are we calling Robespierre? ^^V
Lots of nuke icons.
Too early to say if I like it personally, will see in a week. I did notice the number of trash posts/threads going up in the past few months. Yeah I see a lot of people who were like "common" posters in here, getting the Icon, I know somehow I will get it, but I don't care. If I'm being banned for being a shitty poster, is their will and I am not going to cry about it. I am, though, sad to see some people get banned T_T; Anyways, I hope this keeps the forum clean, and as Entropy said, lets hope the new rules make old TL.net come back .<3<3 (mensrea days )
i doubt they'd ban you
what would your kids do without a father!?
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Baltimore, USA22256 Posts
On November 12 2006 18:42 Detonate wrote:
the ban on one post thing is incorrect i think. I was banned solely for my 11th post : )
I did say "virtually no one", there are always going to be a couple exceptions.
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Run my fellow jews, RUN
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On a more serious note, I guess this kind of initiative is kind of necessary to improve the quality of the forums, but I sure hope you at least pm the damned souls reasonably prior to them...The majority of us, including myself, can only contribute so much, but often, we see this forum as a form of release through words, rather to express a certain degree of escapism from our lives or just for the fun of it. Those type of posts may or may not contribute, but being terminated for it? Perhaps list a few of these "shitty" posters and put them in general analysis, I'm rather curious...shouldn't take much work shouldn't it? ;P Looking at the ban list, names like Lawl mart annd others don't feel like individuals that were bad posters. Sure they may have been one-liners and not top quality, but must we be like Spartans? -_-;
ahh I see ett, Didn't read through the entire thread...bleh ;P
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Baltimore, USA22256 Posts
On November 12 2006 20:32 QuietIdiot wrote:
Those type of posts may or may not contribute, but being terminated for it? Perhaps list a few of these "shitty" posters and put them in general analysis, I'm rather curious...shouldn't take much work shouldn't it? ;P Looking at the ban list, names like Lawl mart annd others don't feel like individuals that were bad posters. Sure they may have been one-liners and not top quality, but must we be like Spartans? -_-;
Generally speaking, one-liners by themselves will not get you banned. One-liners, combined with a bad or counter-productive attitude, perhaps a little trolling here and there, etc., definitely will. And also as I have said before, most the people who've been banned so far have already been on our radar - so it's not like this is sudden, or based on a handful of posts, but rather patterns/trends.
As long as you don't follow that kind of pattern, you should be fine. ^_^
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Just a quick question. What about those of us, (cough, like me, cough.) that dont necessarily flame or troll, but sometimes end up making threads/posts that dont go over as well as we had intended for them to. (I.E.- few responses, generally negative responses.)
Also, once a poster has made it onto someone's list, are they given a p.m. to change their act, or is that held off until action is very close to being taken?
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I feel that ETT dedicated his post to me;(!
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On November 12 2006 20:44 EvilTeletubby wrote:Show nested quote +On November 12 2006 20:32 QuietIdiot wrote:
Those type of posts may or may not contribute, but being terminated for it? Perhaps list a few of these "shitty" posters and put them in general analysis, I'm rather curious...shouldn't take much work shouldn't it? ;P Looking at the ban list, names like Lawl mart annd others don't feel like individuals that were bad posters. Sure they may have been one-liners and not top quality, but must we be like Spartans? -_-; Generally speaking, one-liners [i]by themselves will not get you banned. One-liners, combined with a bad or counter-productive attitude, perhaps a little trolling here and there, etc., definitely will. And also as I have said before, most the people who've been banned so far have already been on our radar - so it's not like this is sudden, or based on a handful of posts, but rather patterns/trends. As long as you don't follow that kind of pattern, you should be fine. ^_^ [/b]
lol italibold
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this demonstrates indecisiveness in our moderators. be very afraid. you could be banned for anything!! ANYTHING!!
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On November 12 2006 20:44 EvilTeletubby wrote:Show nested quote +On November 12 2006 20:32 QuietIdiot wrote:
Those type of posts may or may not contribute, but being terminated for it? Perhaps list a few of these "shitty" posters and put them in general analysis, I'm rather curious...shouldn't take much work shouldn't it? ;P Looking at the ban list, names like Lawl mart annd others don't feel like individuals that were bad posters. Sure they may have been one-liners and not top quality, but must we be like Spartans? -_-; Generally speaking, one-liners [i]by themselves will not get you banned. One-liners, combined with a bad or counter-productive attitude, perhaps a little trolling here and there, etc., definitely will. And also as I have said before, most the people who've been banned so far have already been on our radar - so it's not like this is sudden, or based on a handful of posts, but rather patterns/trends. As long as you don't follow that kind of pattern, you should be fine. ^_^ [/b]
ive got to agree with ett. ive only got a few months as an actual poster but i lurked here for a while. as much as the commandments make it look like they rule tl.net with a no-mercy, iron first attitude, it is actually pretty fair. the one warning ive gotten was after i was involved in a nice little arguement that evolved into a flame war. really, as long as your quality post count outnumbers your one-liners and dumb shit post count by a good margin, youre pretty safe.
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Baltimore, USA22256 Posts
On November 13 2006 05:36 LaZyScV wrote:
Are one-liners and the like in just comments on news posts or liquibets okay?
Those are to be expected.
I think you guys are making this more complicated than it really is. 
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