- MyNameIsCharlie
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Studies show that men think about sex every 7 seconds. I do my best to eat hotdogs in under 6, just so things don't get weird.
Please allow me to introduce Myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith
Posted by: WinyPit82
Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Posted by: WinyPit82
Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
I do.
After being hit in one, I never comment on obvious troll threads. My behavior has been adjusted. Now, I think they should be consistently done, on every troll thread. It's pointless to just lock the thread and ban the OP. Carpet bans keep people from responding to Trolls.
So someone that says "Report and move on" totally deserves to be banned. Here's the problem, you're not seeing this from the eyes of a user who responds. They're not doing anything wrong, sometimes a "troll" thread can't be identified because it's so subtle. I don't think you really know what "trolling" is. Trolling is cleverly making people flame at each other by posting flame bait. (I.E. Religion, politics, Mac vs. PC) Or, they post something that makes everyone obviously upset.
You're probably thinking about John Cena, MarryMeJane, that kind of stuff. That isn't trolling, it's spam. Trolling and spam are two completely different things. I don't even like the rules against replying to spam. Don't ban someone who isn't doing anything. That's semantics, and you know it. Whether its the Oxford definition of a troll or not, that's what passes for trolls today.
There are clear cases that aren't just trolling. And they turn into hot topics in minutes. Some threads exist just to break the rules. These are clear cases.
And "Report and Move On" isn't an excuse to bump them. By posting that, YOU are bumping the thread.
By carpet bombing threads, the most obvious trolls would go away, because no body would respond.
Part of immediately identifying spam is by one saying "report and move on" as one of the replies in a thread. It sends a message saying "Don't reply, and mods? Ban this fool."
If by doing so, he gets banned, then that's just (for lack of a better word) retarded. Report and move on should be obvious. By posting that you are doing nothing but keeping it on page one. Which is just where the troll wants it.
A carpet ban kills trolls the same way a Halo kills Flood. By killing their food. If we stop responding to them, they go away. Carpet bans should be dropped as often as necessary until the threads are cleaned up.
[Edited on 12.26.2011 2:52 PM PST]