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dacer
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After a observation of the members here..

I think I'm done for now. Yes, I'm not one of those sad idiotic attention-loving bad-reaction-loving trolls. It's weird right?

What i wished to accomplish was the observation skills of the members here, including the mods. Apparently the members here are not very keen.

on the topic of mods, Of course the mods here are of horrible quality, but they do their job just fine, in ignorance anyways. I can't really complain much in a kiddish community of such.

The only way i can really justify what I did, was bordem, and I somewhat had an interest in the community.

Meh... now this thread ACTUALLY has a topic, it is not so much a troll thread.

That topic would be... observations.

What are your observations on this community?

A mod locking this thread is further ignorance, but I have already provoked them to do so. So i would not be surprised.

Again, I am truely interested in what you think of your community.

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Cenere
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I haven't seen you trolling. Not because you did it so good, but because it was simply just poking at odd things, and nothing more.
I do, however consider you at least attention seeking, otherwise you would not have made an "investigation" like this, and kept making thread. A proper investigation would have been observing the entirety of the forums, and not just provoke and conclude. Fallacies happen because of that.

AG has never had a proper troll. At least not a self aware one. We have had trollies, and people who think they knew what they were doing, but never an actual, proper troll.
As it is, many on the internet in general will define trolls as people provoking, being annoying and flaming others, or in the worst of cases, people who disagree. These might not be the proper definitions, but considering that "troll" is a word of the internet, the definition changes with the internet.

Of course the mods here are of horrible quality, but they do their job just fine

Isn't that oxymoronic? That we are really, really bad, but do what we are assigned to just fine? That's like saying your observation was flawed, but is totally correct.
So, I wonder, in all our ignorance, what are you trying to say? That we should be demodded, and a person like you, who are apparently unable to behave properly or according to the rules, but are able to "see trolls" that isn't there, be mod instead?
Or that we need to learn to see trolls who isn't there, and stop using our times on betterwissers and smartbutts that are observing the community by breaking the rules, insulting others and not listening?
Sorry, that might have been past the line.

The only way i can really justify what I did, was bordem

You was really bored, wasn't you?

A mod locking this thread is further ignorance, but I have already provoked them to do so. So i would not be surprised.

Considering you haven't actually broken any rules with THIS thread (yet), I see no reason to lock it. However, it might be close with the responses others and yourself give, which thus has nothing to do with the topic, but rather the responses of the topic. So if this is locked, it was not because of the provocation, but because it deserved it.

My observation of these forums would be that there is a tight-knit group of users that come here regularly. They have their own opinions on things, which sometimes clashes with how they actually should act. I guess it could be called the vet-syndrome. This counts as mocking newbies for doing something wrong, or go on a grammar-nazi tour, that is absolutely un-needed. This is currently a rare sight, but it has been worse, and it usually comes in waves.
I find the mods to do their job as they should. We might have different ways of acting, and different opinions, and some might have less patience with a group of users than others might, but we get the stuff done, communication is not a star in the universe, and if something goes wrong, we are not above admitting that is as. You can go report any mod for their wrong doings.
I don't know much about other forums, but the things I have seen and heard shows that we at least keep a certain standard and are on friendly terms with the users.
In other observations, there are stuff I would like to change, or that is in the middle of changing, but that is not important.

I also hope you are aware that after these few days of you being somewhat rude, and making threads that have been frowned upon by the other users, you might need to take a break from the community. As you can see, many did not find it the least entertaining, and rather you have dug yourself a hole of negative reputation.
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Considering you haven't actually broken any rules with THIS thread (yet), I see no reason to lock it. However, it might be close with the responses others and yourself give, which thus has nothing to do with the topic, but rather the responses of the topic. So if this is locked, it was not because of the provocation, but because it deserved it.


Two things in that.

Considering you haven't actually broken any rules with THIS thread (yet)


lol "(yet)"

But that wasn't my point.
As Cenere said, he or another Mod would lock it if more responses were about. "Your a Troll!" or "Shut up! You have no idea what your talking about." Post on topic people. If you keep that up, why are you even posting on this thread? Just leave if this thread bothers you. I'm not on Dacer's "side" I'm just saying, if someone makes a thread like this, just post what you're supposed to post.

Anyway. Here are some observations of mine.
There are a lot of people in AG as stated above. Some people can be immature, but can be mature when they want to. People like to criticize other people (well I've learned from that), but people can be nice to you. A few arguments here and there. Grammar seems to be really important... and thats all.

Now I g2g. I'll be back around 1pm AG time. (I have no idea why I said that
miguelin11
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Do not feed the trollzors plz. =))

1337Player
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Do not feed the trollzors plz. =))


Um... okay. I really still don't understand the term of "Troll". What I found.
Quote from Wikipedia:

In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community


My vocabulary is not a dictionary. I don't have every word stored into my brain. Please explain.

I'll be back around 1pm AG time.


The thing I was going to do got canceled. I'll be on AG when I don't have anything else to do.
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My vocabulary is not a dictionary. I don't have every word stored into my brain. Please explain.


When something is inflammatory it causes provocation (annoyance/anger) or causes inflammation, something that is extraneous is something that is not intrinsic or necessary and you know what off-topic is. A troll is just someone who makes no useful input (normally their comments are made in crap grammar) and they like to generally annoy people with their illegible writing, swearing, and general skills at aggravating people. They also enjoy spamming with "Cool story bro".

The thing I was going to do got canceled. I'll be on AG when I don't have anything else to do.


I was about to ask.
1337Player
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When something is inflammatory it causes provocation (annoyance/anger) or causes inflammation, something that is extraneous is something that is not intrinsic or necessary and you know what off-topic is. A troll is just someone who makes no useful input (normally their comments are made in crap grammar) and they like to generally annoy people with their illegible writing, swearing, and general skills at aggravating people. They also enjoy spamming with "Cool story bro".


Okay, thanks. That's very useful.

Do not feed the trollzors plz. =))


So okay, I won't.
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respectfully and maturely.

maturley yes, respectfully no. people are always like, youre god is a cruel sick joke and stuff like that. its kinda offensive to say that to a christian.
Cenere
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When something is inflammatory it causes provocation (annoyance/anger) or causes inflammation, something that is extraneous is something that is not intrinsic or necessary and you know what off-topic is. A troll is just someone who makes no useful input (normally their comments are made in crap grammar) and they like to generally annoy people with their illegible writing, swearing, and general skills at aggravating people. They also enjoy spamming with "Cool story bro".

That would be a bad troll. A good troll is one that can make you flame them, and generally be annoying as hell, but does nothing that can make them banned (no breaking the rules), and generally will go under the eye of moderators. They do not seek attention, they seek lols.
If you flame, you lose.
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That would be a bad troll. A good troll is one that can make you flame them, and generally be annoying as hell, but does nothing that can make them banned (no breaking the rules), and generally will go under the eye of moderators. They do not seek attention, they seek lols.
If you flame, you lose.


ive done this subconsciously before. you know where? the world events section where the majority of the trolls lurk
dacer
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This gives me chortles xD

This thread has become a troll thread, the general topic was "how do yo observe the community?" and a small group of people are actually on topic.

I thought more people would spaz out so I could have a nice little dipsh*t to target, but it seems many people here are level headed.

I'm done trolling for now. Lock this thread, since only 3 people seem to be "on topic".

Cenere, your a decent mod I suppose, but you need to be more aggressive. You don't need to disprove a troll in anyway, even if you do a decent job at it. I simply don't have the patience to counter your post, since it's pretty solid. What I'm saying is, you are not obligated to explain anything. Acknowlaging trolls in ANY way is simply surrendering to a troll, AKA you lost whatever game they had.

This is an investigation, I'm exploring the multiple typed of trolls, this thread focuses on the passive-aggressive troll.

I may move on to the more violent and stupid trolls if I actually get that bored.

Let it be noted, I have been giving little, to no effort in these threads, and I already have some of the less intelligent members under a deadlock.

I observe that there are FEW intelligent members here, at least few exceedingly intelligent members. My expectations are simply too high i suppose.


I lol'd when i read my own post, that shows how effortless this bullcrap is.

Perhaps I'll pop up to start the occasional debate in random sections, who knows, or cares.

farewell, until we meet again.

To the members, people like darkroot in particular... Don't counter a troll if you have no idea what your talking about.

Cenere did the wrong thing as well, but at least he did a good job at disproving my passive agressive bullshit.

dacer
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Just for the record, i have no idea what 4chan is in depth.

call me sad, but i really never had any interest to look into it.

leo99rules
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leo, i was never a troll b4


So...this whole thread is just a random test to test people out?
dacer
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That, and to see what it feels like to be a troll, yes.

for the lulz and the learning experiance.

mostly for the lulz.

leo99rules
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learning experiance.


*Raises eyebrow*

And now this is top secret Dacer information I suppose?

Eh, it was fun while it lasted.

mostly for the lulz.


To see the idiots that thought you were a troll?

Seems like your the only one laughing.

Does stupidity of others that you caused make you laugh?

Doesn't make me laugh.

I don't think it made anyone laugh.



/I have no idea what I'm doing
Cenere
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but you need to be more aggressive. You don't need to disprove a troll in anyway, even if you do a decent job at it. I simply don't have the patience to counter your post, since it's pretty solid. What I'm saying is, you are not obligated to explain anything. Acknowlaging trolls in ANY way is simply surrendering to a troll, AKA you lost whatever game they had.

That's what all the other mods tell me. To go kick people on sight.
I am not like that. If it makes me a bad mod, well, then I wouldn't have become a mod in the first place, or someone would have mentioned I shouldn't continue to be a mod. I wouldn't mind, it's my plan all along.
And half the time users can be idiots, so if you just ban them, they will come back as bigger idiots with an "entitlement" of revenge.

I may move on to the more violent and stupid trolls if I actually get that bored.

We are no lenient on those.

Cenere did the wrong thing as well, but at least he did a good job at disproving my passive agressive bull****.

Problem: You were never a troll. You were ignorant, stupid and annoying to listen to, but half the users are like that anyway.
Trollie, perhaps, troll, no.
And unless you are harming the community, I have no reason to act upon your crap other than stating my own opinion.

So, now that it has been concluded you are a troll (you said it yourself), there seem to be no reason to keep this, or any future thread made by you open.
Nor does it seem like a proper thing to let you be on the site, considering all you are planning to do is be annoying, ignorant and a general moodkiller.
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