Trolling on TUSCL ... I Don't Get It
Call.Me.Ishmael
Rhode Island
I really don't. I don't understand the motivation to do it and I certainly don't understand the perceived "reward".
If I were to choose to do something completely non-productive, then I'd buy a game console and play Call of Duty, or some such thing. It escapes me how anyone derives a sense of accomplishment or fun from the trolling of a comment board about strip clubs.
Apologies for a very meta post. Since I've been on TUSCL, I've gotten a lot of good info and I don't take anything here too seriously. So, I'm not pissed so much as perplexed by such odd, pointless behavior.
Regards,
Ishmael
If I were to choose to do something completely non-productive, then I'd buy a game console and play Call of Duty, or some such thing. It escapes me how anyone derives a sense of accomplishment or fun from the trolling of a comment board about strip clubs.
Apologies for a very meta post. Since I've been on TUSCL, I've gotten a lot of good info and I don't take anything here too seriously. So, I'm not pissed so much as perplexed by such odd, pointless behavior.
Regards,
Ishmael
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The conclusions:
These trolls are some truly difficult people.
It is your suffering that brings them pleasure, so the best thing you can do is ignore them.
Anyway, we're not talking here about people who get difficult or obnoxious occasionally. The body of work is telling us that people who basically exist to troll, are miserable people, often with a number of clinical afflictions mentally. So that's the "why?" part of it :)
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A related problem, as I see it, is that because of the troll epidemic some posters are assumed to be trolls. Many people on this forum seem to think any female is a troll and that any new poster is a troll. BigLoser, who posted yesterday, is thought to be a troll by some. It's possible, but I thought he was real. Another case is JohnSmith69 being called a troll by people who don't believe him. I've met JS69 and know he's real.
I think the trolls are 13 year old boys who never saw titties before except their mommy's and they are jealous :)
It's impossible to ban them logistically so Founder came up with the ignore feature. Use it.
Trolls should generally be ignored, but when a troll tries to be a bully sometimes you just have to stand up to them (regardless of the general maxim of "Do not feed the troll").
Trolling implies an intention to get a negative response. I honestly don't know how many people that post here are actual trolls. There was the bigtallbonerboy or whatever his name was, but I've come to the conclusion that Juice is a bit of a myth. Just_the_nuts says he's Juice, but he seems to be just another jokester. Sometimes funny, sometimes not. But not some mythical troll mastermind! I'm just not sure where that reputation comes from!
I've seen maybe one or two on topic posts from georgemicrodong. The rest are complaints about trolling. Does georgemicrodong think that incessant complaints about trolling won't encourage trolling? If he thinks that he's kind of a dumbass. I actually wonder if he's trolling us and his modus operandi is trolling by pretending to complain about trolling.
Maybe rickdugan has learned his lesson, but he kept responding to Dougster right up until the end. Assuming Dougster is ok, and I hope he is, he probably gave up because rickdugan was such an easy mark.
It's too bad because some of rickdugan's posts are brilliantly entertaining. I'm not sure if I believe them. It's like he's writing a novel about the adventures of a sleazy d-bag named rickdugan. If so, my hats are off to him and I'll say that I enjoy the fiction! It's brilliant! ;(
If he really is a sleazy d-bag I feel sad for him! :(
Fuck the trolls. Dicks like 4got2wipe are born when bi fags take other fags loads in their mouths and then eat out skank hos. I don't get just_the_nuts either but hes just a goofball and not a total jerkoff like 4got2wipe.