Trolls on other message boards

[tharpdevenport]

I typically put trolls and remarkably thoughtless people who never shut up, on Ignore.
If no Ignore feature, I just don't read their posts, ever.

Certain trolls or extremely stupid people, post in certain threads, certain subjects, fourm subsections, and usually you can easily ignore them.

Real trolls are looking to cause trouble, or follow you around to various threads and try to stir you up in hopes you'll break the rules; I've gotten at least three people on TrekBBS who've tried that, to no avail. Thus not everybody is a troll, sometimes people are legitimately just dumb or uninformed, and feeding those folks isn't that bad, but you should use Grade-A Facts.

 

[Aragorn]

How do you deal with the opposite of a troll -- the unconditional worshiping fanboy cheerleader who freaks out when someone says anything that is less than 100% positive and angrily accuses people who aren't waving pom poms of being trolls?

 

[tharpdevenport]

Why would you say anything to a "yes man" who isn't causing trouble? If in the end, said person bothers you, Ignore features are personal options. You don't have to PM a MOD of T'Bonzzite to put someone on your Ignore list.

Plus, name one unconditional fanboy, specifically at TrekBBS. I've never encountered one person in my life who was as you described.

I have, however, encountered numberous people who hate & disagree with their stances, and thus CONSIDER example member to be a "unconditional worshiping fanboy cheerleader".

 

[JarodRussell]

I like the fun and imaginative trolls. I wouldn't even consider them trolls, really, more contributors to the overall forum hilarity.

The boring shouty ones, not so much.

Your mom!

 

[Nick086]

I've never been in a board that's very terribly unregulated, unless YouTube comments count. If so then I love destroying a five-page-long argument over something stupid with a simple point of logic. Then I watch them drop any pretense of being civilized in the face of imminent psychological defeat, and let the comment replies roll in, generally swearing that would make a sailor hide in his room and cry.

I know there is a lot of anti-American members from Europe on youtube. When something goes wrong in their country they blame America as a whole. They make dumb comment on videos about Americans this or American that. It mostly non English speak Europeans from Eastern Europe, but there are some anti-American northern europeans from Great Britain and Scandinvia.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Attempt to determine by direct questioning whether they're proud of their ancestry.

 

[Nick086]

Attempt to determine by direct questioning whether they're proud of their ancestry.

I find out quite a few of them aren't even native to the country they are North African or Arab or their mother is European and their father isn't.

 

[Miss Chicken]

How do you deal with the opposite of a troll -- the unconditional worshiping fanboy cheerleader who freaks out when someone says anything that is less than 100% positive and angrily accuses people who aren't waving pom poms of being trolls?

I mentioned such people in my post above. All it took for me to get banned was to say that I though Orlando Bloom had been miscast and that I thought he was better suited for a different role in the movie. The admin of the site told me there had been multiple complaints about my 'trolling' - not doubt from Bloom/Legolas fangirls - and many of those who complained asked for me to be permabanned. I never went back to the site to see if my ban was ever lifted. I can't even remember the name of the site any more.

 

[Cheapjack]

Attempt to determine by direct questioning whether they're proud of their ancestry.

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nndb.com/people/877/000022811/rodney.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nndb.com/people/877/000022811/&usg=__rYHJdnTcR8uxTKLeiSW1bTm1WCk=&h=265&w=214&sz=11&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=rSidl_ZjXmqZtM:&tbnh=160&tbnw=122&ei=MR9kTYa9KIj84AbrzInmCQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Drodney%2Bdangerfield%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1259%26bih%3D818%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=342&vpy=79&dur=866&hovh=212&hovw=171&tx=99&ty=110&oei=MR9kTYa9KIj84AbrzInmCQ&page=1&ndsp=28&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0

 

[Marie1]

^^ Wow! What a lame place!

To OP: ark 'em as spam... *shrug* Trolls just like to interject to be a pain in the ass, they aren't worth talking too, no matter how logical your reasoning is or witty the comeback.

 

[Marie1]

Too late to edit my original post, but I found this screencap I took and it reminded me of this and a couple other recent threads.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

That was a really splatter.

 

[SPOCKED]

I'm a regular troll over at allrecipes.com

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I'm a regular troll over at allrecipes.com

What, do you start a thread saying "only assholes use lemon basil!" or something?

 

[SPOCKED]

I'm a regular troll over at allrecipes.com

What, do you start a thread saying "only assholes use lemon basil!" or something?

I guess I really cheezed off stellanutella when I said her sticky buns needed a few more squirts of fructose

 

[Holdfast]

A quasi-troll (as in no-one can really quite figure him out for sure, but he's fun) on another board I read just got one of his threads quoted in a Wall Street Journal article. I kid you not...

 

[enlisted person]

What's a troll

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

There's a poster over on baseball-fever.com who constantly bitches about any stadium newer than about 1980 being a "boondoggle" but I've learned to tolerate that kinda thing.

 

[DonIago]

(gasp) Such language! Boondoggle... (shakes head sadly)

 

[Nick086]

Too late to edit my original post, but I found this screencap I took and it reminded me of this and a couple other recent threads.

I've been stalking this troll ever since he started replying to every one of my post calling me a douche, a tool, and a retard. Now he is posting threads about this extra caling this guy a pedo ect. Which is pretty worst then what up you pasted and posted on here.