WOW. I was going to make a post about this.
Throughout my time in this beloved community, I have witnessed many actions and events; from hacking attempts to loving attempts. However the one event, or one may call it action, which has come to my eye lately is trolling. What, you may ask, is this? In response to your question, I can only give you an internet definition:
Trolling is trying to get a rise out of someone. Forcing them to respond to you, either through wise-crackery, posting incorrect information, asking blatantly stupid questions, or other foolishness. However, trolling statements are never true or are ever meant to be construed as such. Nearly all trolled statements are meant to be funny to some people, so it does have some social/entertainment value.
From that definition you may chuckle to yourself and say, "What a load of bollocks. It's all for the laughs!" However there are times when this so called trolling gets out of hand and people throw the word around to define any type of rule breaking on the forum. In some cases you may be correct and if this is the case, I oblidge you to report the offender so that full actions can be taken by the forum administration team.
On the other hand, as I mentioned before, the word "troll" and "trolling" gets thrown around like a frizbee within this community. I fail to see where half the "trolling" on the forum comes from. Within this community there are several people who like to think themselves as trolls because they can uplift information from such websites as Google Images and 4chan. Just because one posts an image that says, "Shut the f**k up" does not mean they are troll, more of a cunt for being a copypasta.
While being muted for a month I had time to watch and review the actions of certain people on the forum and several topics and people came to my attention. One of these was the Gvardia topic where a supposed troll who goes by the name of RafaDK was trying to "piss off" the members of Gvardia. In return, Antonio and "THE RETIRED TROLL" MetalLuigiX embraced him in an argument which turned out to be newfags arguing with newfags. This behaviour was definately not acceptable and as a result of this, warnings and moderations were handed out to the parties invlved. This is a good example of why the so called "trolling" cannot take place on the Argonath Forum as the forum moderation team is so strong.
There are several actions which one sees while lurking on the forum which have been directly lifted from the possibly infamous website, 4chan. They are not cool and theye are as follows:
">implying I am trolling" - This does not work here as text does not automatically get turned to green requiring extra effort.
"Posting images to represet words" - Many images posted are as old as the internet and should be avoided when possible.
"The word fag.got" - This word is commonly misused and is actually a delicious dish usually served with chips.
"Noany" - This is used too much and is a mockery of the owner.
"Orly" - This word is NOT cool.
So please think before you throw the word around.
Regards,
Ollie
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