- homocidalham
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- Exalted Mythic Member
"That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.
Now try how and why."
Trolling, helpfulness, and niceness aren't mutually exclusive, oddly enough.
They form a sort of nonlinear codependant trichotomy. Niceness is a general feeling of wanting to be friendly towards others. Normally this is simply from posting in a "nice fashion." This is facilitated by helpfulness. Sometimes helpfulness isn't nice, though, as telling someone that they're breaking the rules or that their idea is bad counts as helpful, but not necessarily nice. Trolling is very much the antipathy of nice, but when done be a benevolent troll, it can give an obstacle for the individual to overcome without them having to run head on into a grade A jackass flamer. It isn't nice, but it will help them in the long run. It helps them grow.