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View Poll Results: How do you feel about troll-free threads?
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Troll-free threads should be forbidden.
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Troll-free threads are fine with me.
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TFT's are fine, but older threads should not be allowed to be converted.
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Just ban the fucking trolls already!
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Other (specify)
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07-14-2008, 09:19 AM
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General of the Attacking Army
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Pittsburgh
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How do you feel about TFT's? (TFT)
Should they be allowed?
Should they be allowed, but no threads that were originally created without the TFT label should be allowed to be converted?
Should we just ban the fucking trolls already?
Discuss.
I will grieve. Grief is not a theistic concept. ~ Sternwallow
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07-14-2008, 09:24 AM
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General of the Attacking Army
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By the way, before this turns into the inevitable "Define troll" discussion, I will say this about defining trolls:
There are no textbook definitions, ok? Can we just avoid the conversation? Smelly, Eva, and I have been elected to use our judgment and discretion. I think all three of us err on the side of "not a troll" when defining.
To further define just how conservative Professor Chaos the moderator is: There is currently only one troll that I would even consider banning, and that is YHWH. I do not take troll banning lightly. I would have, however, banned Francis a long time ago.
(Professor Chaos the member, however, would have YHWH, Missionary, and Lily banned.)
I will grieve. Grief is not a theistic concept. ~ Sternwallow
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07-14-2008, 10:00 AM
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Mistress Monster Mod'rator Spy
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The North Coast
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Tft?
Wtf?
NEver mind. I get it.
"I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death."
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
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07-14-2008, 10:03 AM
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Still Kate's Bitch...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Bristol, UK
Posts: 2,722
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Awww, I thought you were gonna let me have the last word. 8 minutes later a poll pops up. Outrageous.
One man's strawman is another man's asshole.
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07-14-2008, 10:08 AM
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Obsessed Member
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: inside a hill
Posts: 2,910
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Not that I've started any TFT's (or any new threads for that matter) I like the idea. Since usually when the issue of a troll comes up and we do discuss it, we're pretty split. This way the ones who prefer the banning method can have threads free of them, while the ones who prefer not banning also get their wish.
Cause lets face it, there are some of us who can't stop ourselves from engaging them
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07-14-2008, 10:13 AM
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I Live Here
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: prick up your ears
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how about we have a troll nomination system? We could vote on someone who has been accused of trolling and if they are found guilty of under-bridge like activities then that person would be excluded from TFT's.
Or we could all just stop being such little bitches about the whole thing.......
You can always turn tricks for a few extra bucks. If looks are an issue, there's the glory hole option, but don't expect more than ... tips.
~ Philiboid Studge
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07-14-2008, 10:14 AM
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Still Kate's Bitch...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Bristol, UK
Posts: 2,722
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One man's strawman is another man's asshole.
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07-14-2008, 10:20 AM
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Mistress Monster Mod'rator Spy
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The North Coast
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"I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death."
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
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07-14-2008, 10:31 AM
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General of the Attacking Army
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Location: Pittsburgh
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Quote:
Waddlie wrote
Awww, I thought you were gonna let me have the last word. 8 minutes later a poll pops up. Outrageous.
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I did let you have the last word in your thread you silly goose. I'm not going to argue with you about it. But as I closed that post
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Professor Chaos wrote
If everyone wants these to stop, I won't enforce them.
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I figured I'd actually find that out.
I will grieve. Grief is not a theistic concept. ~ Sternwallow
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07-14-2008, 11:25 AM
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I Live Here
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: prick up your ears
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none of this would have happened if Myst had been made a mod like he wanted
(But only because everyone who isn't a total shitgoblin would have left)
You can always turn tricks for a few extra bucks. If looks are an issue, there's the glory hole option, but don't expect more than ... tips.
~ Philiboid Studge
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07-14-2008, 11:30 AM
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Mistress Monster Mod'rator Spy
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The North Coast
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"I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death."
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
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07-14-2008, 07:03 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Giant rock hurtling through space
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I voted forbidden.
We have an ignore function on the forum as well as the normal, human, ignore ability. If a member doesn't want to see something, I think it's fairest to everyone involved to use these.
That said, do ban those who spam, those who exist only to annoy, and other complete time-wasters. Those posters don't deserve fairness.
“Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will find that a lie defends itself by telling other lies.” - Robert Ingersoll
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07-15-2008, 05:08 AM
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General of the Attacking Army
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Pittsburgh
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Quote:
Kamikaze189 wrote
I voted forbidden.
We have an ignore function on the forum as well as the normal, human, ignore ability. If a member doesn't want to see something, I think it's fairest to everyone involved to use these.
That said, do ban those who spam, those who exist only to annoy, and other complete time-wasters. Those posters don't deserve fairness.
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If a hobo comes into your home and defecates in every room of your house every five minutes do you ignore him?
Anyways, do YHWH, Missionary, and Lily not "exist only to annoy?"
I will grieve. Grief is not a theistic concept. ~ Sternwallow
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07-15-2008, 05:29 AM
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Obsessed Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Oxford, UK.
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No, they don't. Theism does not equate to trolling.
I quite enjoy arguing with Lily. She doesn't create multiple threads. She hardly starts threads at all. Does disagreeing with forum consensus count as "trolling" now? Missionary, although utterly wrong in all respects, hasn't flamed, done huge copy and paste posts as far as I know, or any of the usual shit we complain about. He's argued his case (such as it is) badly but I don't think he's here to troll, he's here to argue. YHVH, maybe.
Trolls IMHO are people like Kilik and the Drive By Theists (worst band name EVER!) who post huge retarded screeds or copy and paste shite all over multiple threads and then refuse to engage. Ban those people, sure. I'm also fine with Smelly's habit of giving warnings or limiting the number of threads people can start.
I'm dubious about troll free threads but it's a reasonable compromise, I guess, that isn't too much work for the Mods.
Alternatively, what Choobus said.
"You care for nothing but shooting, dogs and rat-catching, and will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family"
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07-15-2008, 05:34 AM
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General of the Attacking Army
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Quote:
a different tim wrote
No, they don't. Theism does not equate to trolling.
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I didn't say that it did. I wasn't mentioning thomas, SteveG, or Quaker, was I? I was mentioning trolls.
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I quite enjoy arguing with Lily.
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Did you bump your head?
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She doesn't create multiple threads. She hardly starts threads at all. Does disagreeing with forum consensus count as "trolling" now?
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No. A Christian coming to an atheist forum only to tell the atheists how uneducated, vile, worthless and wrong they are constitutes trolling. That's all she does.
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Missionary, although utterly wrong in all respects, hasn't flamed, done huge copy and paste posts as far as I know, or any of the usual shit we complain about. He's argued his case (such as it is) badly but I don't think he's here to troll, he's here to argue. YHVH, maybe.
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I agree. Remember, I said in another thread that the only person we have worthy of banning, as I see it through my mod-goggles, is POSSIBLY YHWH. So we see it the exact same way from that standpoint.
I will grieve. Grief is not a theistic concept. ~ Sternwallow
Last edited by Professor Chaos; 07-15-2008 at 05:51 AM.
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