The difference between a bad poster and a troll

durron597 · #1 11-20-2006, 04:00 PM

FuturePokerChamp

Perhaps innocent but seems pretty trolly to me

Posting a play money bad beat in BBV

now neither of these are my forums but my first instinct was "this guy is a total waste of space" and my second thought was "troll". when does someone move from the 1st category (which we simply tolerate) to the second?

iron81 · #2 11-20-2006, 04:02 PM

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when does someone move from the 1st category (which we simply tolerate) to the second?

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When he posts somewhere besides BBV and NVG.

Sniper · #3 11-20-2006, 04:20 PM

durron,

Can you be more explicit about what you think is wrong with these posts?

As a side point, we should not be "the stupid post" police...

Finally, we also tolerate (and in some cases, endorse) quite a bit of true trolling, as well.

Gildwulf · #4 11-20-2006, 04:40 PM

this is an issue I have talked to with ryan...my first instinct is to lock all this guy's threads, but there is no crime in being a sucky poster. We can't really become the 'bad post police' because then modding becomes totally subjective (sorry, NT).

Basically, I either do a scorched earth policy or do almost nothing.

Gildwulf · #5 11-20-2006, 04:41 PM

here's what I actually did:

post 1- stays, poster gets flamed

post 2- moved to gossip forum partly because it sucked, but mostly because it fit with NVG much more. If someone makes a good post that generates a lot of interest in bbv on a bigger name poster (OMG EM2 MADE A VIDEO) I would just let this stay.

post 3-stays, poster gets flamed.

diebitter · #6 11-20-2006, 04:43 PM

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this is an issue I have talked to with ryan...my first instinct is to lock all this guy's threads, but there is no crime in being a sucky poster. We can't really become the 'bad post police' because then modding becomes totally subjective (sorry, NT).

Basically, I either do a scorched earth policy or do almost nothing.

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Amen.

durron597 · #7 11-20-2006, 04:46 PM

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this is an issue I have talked to with ryan...my first instinct is to lock all this guy's threads, but there is no crime in being a sucky poster. We can't really become the 'bad post police' because then modding becomes totally subjective (sorry, NT).

Basically, I either do a scorched earth policy or do almost nothing.

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Amen.

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yeah, that's what i thought at first, but then i thought "could anyone really be that sucky of a poster that they didn't realize how trollish these posts really are"? so i made this thread.