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Jafar · May 18, 2006, 07:19:54 PM

Congrats!

koko_99_2001 · May 18, 2006, 09:28:56 PM

Awww, thankees everyone

I haven't been checking the forum because I've been working all day *pokes LN*

Deloria · June 17, 2006, 07:06:50 AM

If you don't, you can always get a "humerous bent" on Ebay (for those who get the reference).

Louisiana Night · June 17, 2006, 08:18:43 AM

Shining Force Fan!

That brings our numbers up to... three?

Deloria · June 17, 2006, 08:23:12 AM

Quote from: Louisiana Night on June 17, 2006, 08:18:43 AM
Shining Force Fan!

That brings our numbers up to... three?

Afraid not.

*was looking at old troll posts*

Yonkey · June 17, 2006, 08:26:52 AM

Speaking of the troll, did you guys realize he attempted to come back at least 3 times since his ban?

Actually the last time I noticed the IP was a bit different, so maybe it was just someone else from his state/city using the same Cable provider.

Deloria · June 17, 2006, 08:30:19 AM

Quote from: Yonkey on June 17, 2006, 08:26:52 AM
Speaking of the troll, did you guys realize he attempted to come back at least 3 times since his ban?

OMGLOL!!

*goes through troll posts every now and then for nostalgic reasons*
*moves last few posts to the mod corner*

Rosella · June 17, 2006, 09:01:13 AM

W00T! Persistant trolls!

Well, if he has to keep trying to annoy us, we have to be doing something right.

Deloria · June 17, 2006, 09:05:15 AM

I bet/hope he regrets it

Yonkey · June 17, 2006, 10:42:02 AM

I was reading over some of my old posts, including ones that involved other troll posts we had in the past, and you know what I noticed? There's actually a commonality that all trolls share.

Troll posts start off either as pessimism, nagging, or "jokes" that you have to literally struggle in order to find funny. Trolls post with the intention of getting a response, but the manner in which they do so is interpreted by others as rude and almost always offensive. They then pick at your reply, focusing purely on the negative or illogical statements and try to escalate the matter to the point of flaming or cutthroat sarcasm. From that point forward, a moderator takes control and the offensive posts get split/locked/deleted, and the member themselves get punished.

As for why trolls act the way they do, it's more out of insecurity than anything else. They lack the optimism and faith that the majority of our fans do, and choose to focus only on the negative (e.g. seeing a glass as half empty rather than half full). Some trolls do get the point that their behavior is intolerable and take a hint, others never get the point and do it because they get pleasure from all the attention. The words they say are actually quite meaningless because they fail to hold up to logic and are usually myopic in nature.

That's why I no longer have patience for trolls, both in their infancy and those that decide to do it for a living. If I wanted to, I could make them regret the day they step foot into our forum.

However, our forum rules are are simple: if you post something offensive, you get punished. The consequences almost always co-relate in magnitude with the offence itself and its context, so these rules are clearly fair toward both sides.

Deloria · June 17, 2006, 11:42:28 AM

So we should pity them?

Yonkey · June 17, 2006, 12:40:51 PM

Quote from: Deloria on June 17, 2006, 11:42:28 AM
So we should pity them?

If you want.

I really couldn't care less about them.

Deloria · June 17, 2006, 02:18:45 PM

Awesome

*likes being indifferent*

Oldbushie · June 17, 2006, 04:20:49 PM

At least beernutts is more optimistic now.

Deloria · June 17, 2006, 04:22:01 PM

I'm not usually, but TSL's the exception

Petra Rocks · July 27, 2006, 06:53:51 PM

Every mod should one of these.

Seriously people, it is bad PR to have this stuff the newcomers thread. Funny in a way, but keep it someplace else, shall we?

Yonkey · July 28, 2006, 05:23:13 AM

lol, nice pic!

Perhaps I should use that for people's avatars on SpamWatch™.

Raforever · July 28, 2006, 07:11:38 AM

ROFL

Aint a bad idea

koko_99_2001 · July 28, 2006, 08:27:52 AM

*goes to modify SpamWatch profiles*

Petra Rocks · July 28, 2006, 08:34:37 AM

Quotelol, nice pic!

Thanks, I blatantly stole the idea from a mod on another forum I frequent.

Use it how you like.

QuoteThey lack the optimism and faith that the majority of our fans do, and choose to focus only on the negative

I'm a strong believer that if anything can go wrong it will, and Utopia is no place. But it takes little "faith" to think this game will finish. The sheer scale of it, more than a score of people working for over two years, not to count the thousands of people who wrote VU to defend it, is ample empirical proof that this project has what it takes to get done. 6 years ago I would have thought it would never happen, but clearly it has.

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