29-06-2014, 09:01 PM
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Re: Trolls
Originally Posted by spitfire
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it's a bit like fishing, you can buy the best bait, present it in the best possible fashion, you blend into the background showing no silhouette against the horizon, and maintain absolute silence, but if there ain't no fish in the swim, you won't catch one, similarly, sections of this thread, it seems were intended to entice a fictitious or extinct Troll, if there ain't one, it can't be entrapped. Of course there is a possibility there could be a Wolf in Sheep's clothing, an inverted Troll, if so, on this site, Imo, it is a lazy arse.
29-06-2014, 09:04 PM
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Re: Trolls
Originally Posted by AutumnColour
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People are responsible for putting names & labels on everything & everybody including the tag, trolls.Why are good members letting nasty people rent so much space
in their heads or on this forum, such as creating a thread about them & going on & on? Me included, its human nature I guess.
I've decided now to put the whole thread on ignore. If a big argument begins brewing & gets exciting, someone please PM me
30-06-2014, 11:47 AM
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Getting back to inverted trolls, I wonder if there are any "Converted Trolls", Trolls who "Saw the Light" so to speak, and regretted the error of their ways, then came back preaching religion in every post. I have seen this in real life with fellas who give up the drink and go religion mad, telling everyone else to pack it in and turn to God, they then become an even worse nuisance then they were before. Just a thought.
30-06-2014, 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Mags
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Mod edit: Please note off topic posts have been deleted
30-06-2014, 04:43 PM
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Does this humble Aussie newbie DARE query a GLOBAL Mod with16,000 posts and 8000+ Profile visits ?I just wonder how far those off-topic posts had wandered, how many of them there were and whether it was really essential that they go ?
In any normal discussion we often go off on tangents - and those are frequently more interesting than the original subject.
One can always return to the Sacred Topic at will.
Now I'm all curious about the pearls of wisdom I may have missed. lol
30-06-2014, 04:52 PM
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Hopefully "on topic" though ......I reckon there are trolls and there are trolls.
(I guess my post above could be so defined by some.)
Sometimes, particularly if there is a general consensus about some subject, any person expressing an alternate view is tagged a troll.
Seen it happen more than once !
AND - a 'devil's advocate' CAN be a very good thing.
Makes people THINK.
Regardless of what they SAY, most people actually like a bit of blood on the walls.
Often, the most interesting and active threads are those where opposing passionate views are robustly expressed and defended.
30-06-2014, 06:28 PM
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I'd like something cleared up that I'm not sure of. Are trolls supposedly nasty people who lurk in the background, ready to start trouble? I've always assumed that's what they are. If so, then I've never understood the concept of that. What kick can someone get out of it?|
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