Magix, Cholo simply made a point and presented it. In all due respect, you should be more open minded to what he just said.
So basically, Mods tell everyone not to point it out like so, and they end up doing it anyways, and then you notice it, so you point out that they're pointing out the obvious. You're still complaining along with them, but in a way that the mods should be enforcing, not you. lulz.
Cholo is simply stating a problem that exists on these forums in a mature and responsible way. He made a thread, gave it a topic, and stated his thought. To be honest, too many users have been creating threads without any real thought lately. For example, hardly any threads have an OP that is longer than a paragraph and almost all threads created are random questions or silly little games.
My point is, he had every right to make this thread. Not to mention that this is one of the better forum threads out there.
Yes and apparently a troll always wins whenever somebody posts in their thread, no matter what, according to nemo.nonono it's not like that.
I can not stress how wrong you are. Granted, a troll does not necessarily win just becaus a few people post in their threads. But if people respond to them, they laugh and continue trolling. Have you even heard the term, "Don't feed the trolls"? Ignoring them is the best thing to do if you are a regular member!
Calling them stupid or making fun of them won't hurt their feelings and it won't make them stop. If you think that works, you don't know what you are talking about and should stop argueing.
The best way to get rid of a real troll is to simply IPban. Thankfully, we don't get many of those.
Members can't ban people. You missed the point. The best way for
members to help the forums is by being responsible. This includes ignoring trolls and reporting them directly to the moderators.
Everyone's just confused because you guys are trying so hard to find the exact definition of a troll, spam, and flaming nowadays. I find it great how one person brings up a definition of each one of those things, then the next thing you know, someone else pops up with a bigger and badder definition believe they are so right.
Nobody is trying to come up with an exact definition. The word has just been misused recently. The paragraph you typed is not related so I won't bother going into more detail.
You guys crack me up. ^^
Not as much as you crack everyone else up. ^^
Do you think you're all that much better by just watching the thread untill it's closed, and making a rant saying how the people that posted in it are foolish? You really are in the same boat tbh.
Think of all the times he watched the troll threads die without making a thread about it. It was a slow and painful process I'm sure. He eventually got tired of watching them feed the trolls and made this thread. Nothing wrong with that. Don't mark him a hypocrite.
Also, false. If they are a true troll they wont make some silly thread and just watch it all day. Half of the people that troll here don't know what they're doing anyway. The only legit thing i've seen here was that forum raid awhile back. That was pretty sick.
Sometimes a troll will pull off an all out attack. But ignoring them
does work. Ignoring them wont bear immediate results but replying to them does nothing but encourage them. Did you know that many forums actually state in their rules not too feed the trolls by replying to them? There is a very good reason for that. Ignoring them is the best way to deal with them. If it doesn't work, keep on ignoring them!
Think about it. 3/4 of the people that posted in those threads have <50 posts, so they lack the experience to know any better anyway, so they probably don't even know what a troll is in the first place.
Most of the people who resonded to the troll were familure with forum conduct. Not to mention, most of them were regulars.
Besides, why are you complaining if you can't do anything to stop it. Leave it to the mods?
He is doing something about it! He follows the forum rules and he ignores trolls. He responds to all forum problems such as spam, flaming, and trolling, in a responsible manner. But him doing this won't work if other people keep feeding the trolls or the fire.
Also, Cholo is "doing something" by posting this thread. He is informing others on how people should respond to online problems. You act like he is wrong to make this thread because it isn't doing anything to stop the trolls, but he is trying to get a message across every other user's mind. It's not like you're helping by argueing with him.
Not to mention, you were one of the people feeding the troll! You helped keep the previously mentioned thread bumped up! To top everything off, you replied to the thread more than once. If you replied only once, it woulnd't have been as big a problem.
Take your first step and learn how to deal with a problem yourself before you critisize others like Cholo who are doing the right thing.
Stop being a rebel, you aren't very good at it.
