Seriously, thank you for that. It was long overdue.

http://www.musicbanter.com/lounge/71...ml#post1386321



It went way beyond just laughing

What I still don't get is how a naked man asking a minor to "come get some lovin" isn't predatory.

What I don't get is why you guys have like hits out on this Dirty guy and "keep your eyes peeled" messages floating around as if his existence on this forum will negatively affect your life and the world or something. If he proxies and comes back that's just him being petty and pathetic, so stop giving him the power by talking about him so much and just ignore the antics and he'll eventually stop getting anything from it and leave for good. The saying "don't feed the troll" seriously applies here, and in this case the constant, borderline paranoid vitriol is what's feeding him.

Batlord don't be ridiculous

:P

The more you deny it the more obvious it is. Just admit it.

I hope an angry mob gangs up on me now

Rabble rabble rabble

Entitled white boys make my vagina dry up faster than you can say quidditch tbh

literally one of the ugliest things on this planet

Will confirm I am entitled white boy drying vagina.

You're a vagina? that's a plot twist I didn't expect

But the real question remains....

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/20...ro-d48kuby.jpg

Are you really bringing that up again? Fifteen pages or whatever it was of accusations and argument wasn't enough for you? Bloody hell. :rolleyes:

Not supposed to? Haha. Who decides that then? If you're in posession of the Earth user manual handed down to us from almighty God or Nature explaining how all humans should conduct themself then please show it to me. 'Til then I'll go on living in accordance with my own values, not yours.

Go ahead and live in accordance with your own values. Just know that your values make you an *******.

No I quite like vaginas

I didn't say my vagina, I like all vaginas. Vaginas are great

Rude!

For once we are in agreement.

Yeah, nowhere near at socially refined as telling our friend Meg that her academic achievements are worthless, that our friend Steph got employment at a place that doesn't meet your social rebellion standards, and *vastly* more rude than laughing at our friends encounter with a pedo-predator. Maybe, seeing as we're *so* rude, you might GTFO of this rude-ass community. Now.

Even if it was rude it wouldn't be anywhere near as rude as trivializing suicide and defending sexual predators.

Damnit, Paul.

Poor me. A victim of discrimination on, of all places, a bloody internet forum. haha. Can it get any worse?

And I'm an attention whore

huh

You could actually be a victim of actual discrimination

Mr. Charlie just strikes me as a huge blowhard.

Cheers, man. High five?

That wasn't a compliment.

I know.

I'm the same way, though I deleted the sentence 'it's up to the reader to decide if I'm serious' because on the internet, where you have to make due without the many nuances of speech and expression to convey your meaning, you have to make it explicitly clear if you are kidding or not. If someone reading your post can't figure out whether you are serious it's your (the writer's) fault.

On that note...


This was entirely a joke that I conveyed poorly. I don't like detailing what I don't like about people, so I came up with something silly for this thread.
Vanilla is an awesome mod. <-- Not a joke, but a serious, true statement.

The flip side of "it's the writers fault" is you as the reader have to know there is "not enough information" to base your assumptions on, in short some things you have to let go some things as not being fully understood if it was a joke or not. I have to let go things that I don't know if they were a friendly joke or a mean joke, or just a non-humorous flail. There is an awful lot of things that are said in jest here that I don't get. And there is other things I just don't find funny at all. But then again this isn't JokeBanter... it a music forum. :rolleyes:

If someone is posting things that is upsetting to you, I think you have to take a step back and think things through. While I understand someone being sarcastic or derisive would be upsetting of course, (and in a case of trolling, they are begging you to lash out) but you don't really have to blow up over it. That is not saying you shouldn't feel upset, just that you can make a choice not to lash out (as most trollish personalities expect you to do) and find other ways of dealing with the problem. But all of that is one of those things that is easily said than done.

I don't quite understand trolling. Is it someone faking a personality specifically to upset people? Or is it just anyone who's upsetting?

I have mastered the art of conveying sarcasm on the internet.

Maybe one day Wpnfire will be able to adequately follow in my steps

If you do it right it can very entertaining when bored

Forum trolling mainly consists of intentionally derailing a topic. There are many methods.

As far as I remember reading about it, "trolling" was a fishing term where you cast your line and it skips across the water "baiting" the fish.

An alleged troll is "baiting" another member to break a forum rule most likely the "no personal attack" rule. It is basically instigating arguments, sowing discord, creating hot topic threads with the intent of dividing a forum. When he is outed then he is a bona fide troll.

But how do you differentiate between someone discussing such things to start arguments, and someone that just has a genuinely unpopular opinion?

That's the question.

There is not always a way to prove whether or not a person of a troll or a legitimate contrarian/moron. Comes down to opinion, really, although there are times when it's blatantly obvious.

Speaking as a former internet forum moderator (so am super srs!!!!)

Well, that just sounds like something a mean popular kid would say. You know it was once acceptable to hate the gays and abhorrent to support them.