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Let's talk about banning.

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    #32
    SimpleSam06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭SimpleSam06


    cson wrote:
    Personally I'd imagine most users on this board would say that it would be a troll if say that user had only a double digit post count <100 posts. This user has nearly 900, it raises the question that if he/she wanted to troll would they go to such lengths? Myself I think not, I think there is a deeply rooted hatred of certain groups at the heart of the issue.
    You'd be surpised at the lengths some people will go to in trolling. Its considered quite the art form in some circles. Theres even a loose association of internet trolls, with their own website (offensive NSFW).

    I've seen some remarkably complex trolls in my travels as well, one fellow went so far as to mirror a site that was overloaded, a site with an image gallery, and set up a script to randomly replace the images in the large thumbnail gallery with goatse when you clicked on them. Click on the same image again, it came up fine. He managed to pull that troll off in about four minutes, and actually got some people banned from the forum linking for complaining he was trolling.

    That esteban managed to accrue so many posts merely means he was a good troll. ;) In fact, I'm sure if he's reading this thread, he's probably delighted with the confusion and discussion his posts have created.


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    #33
    MrJoeSoap
    Registered Users Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    I think we'll let FlutterinBantam have the last word on this one...


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    #34
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    I agree with SimpleSam. Estebancambias referred to people with an intellectual disability as "brain-dead retards" for ****'s sake.


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    #35
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    MrJoeSoap wrote:
    I think we'll let FlutterinBantam have the last word on this one...

    :eek: I can't speak,I'm Julep'd, three sheets to the wind!!!

    I cannot be my usual erudite and concise self.


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    #36
    SimpleSam06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭SimpleSam06


    Dudess wrote:
    I agree with SimpleSam. Estebancambias referred to people with an intellectual disability as "brain-dead retards" for ****'s sake.
    Indeed. I don't think boards has really seen the level and elaborate schemes of trolling that some sites have experienced in the past. Hopefully we won't see any more of it either.


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    #37
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    A pipe dream I'd say...


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