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Banned for trolling
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28-08-2011 2:38pm#1
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Trolling is the posting of controversial, inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion. (Definition of trolling pulled from the AH charter ... which it would have been an idea to actually read before posting there, btw.)
All of the posts I have highlighted are controversial / inflammatory and certainly appear to have been posted with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response.
One such post from a new poster within hours of registering could be seen as possibly unintentional or due to unfamiliarity with the forum(s) involved, and would probably have attracted an on-thread warning, a PM from a mod, or an infraction.
Four such posts out of seven within a few hours? What do *you* think is the statistical likelihood of that pattern indicating a lack of deliberate intent?
I am very impressed with how much you have managed to absorb of AH / Boards popular opinion in one day!UseToBeFamous wrote: »Shooting the unemployed = stupid amswer for studid thread
Shooting the rest = I was poking fun at what seems to be boards popular opinion, since all people do is moan about the people on said cathogories!
And if such matters are conducted more privately it gets characterised as lack of transparency / cover-up.UseToBeFamous wrote: »I also think DRP being public is a total joke.
Why?
Well I think its pretty d!ckish thing to have to make you're business public.
Damned if you do and damned if you don't, tbh.0 -
randylonghorn wrote: »Trolling is the posting of controversial, inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion. (Definition of trolling pulled from the AH charter ... which it would have been an idea to actually read before posting there, btw.)
All of the posts I have highlighted are controversial / inflammatory and certainly appear to have been posted with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response.
One such post from a new poster within hours of registering could be seen as possibly unintentional or due to unfamiliarity with the forum(s) involved, and would probably have attracted an on-thread warning, a PM from a mod, or an infraction.
Four such posts out of seven within a few hours? What do *you* think is the statistical likelihood of that pattern indicating a lack of deliberate intent?
I am very impressed with how much you have managed to absorb of AH / Boards popular opinion in one day!
And if such matters are conducted more privately it gets characterised as lack of transparency / cover-up.
Damned if you do and damned if you don't, tbh.
All of the posts I have highlighted are controversial / inflammatory and certainly appear to have been posted with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response
Calling GAA crap and not supporting man united is just my opinion, there was no intent to cause offense and nobody in the thread was offended and the poll was super close, I found out later that the thread was posted in the wrong forum. My mistake.
The post about shooting the unemployed, well maybe i didnt gauge the direction of the thread properly as the post before mine involved racism and the thread after mine was also about shooting people( i take it both were considerated trolling and both people were banned?)
And statisically I'd say a new user who may not be familiar with the sensitivity of the moderators wouldnt know they were trolling, so i feel not even being warned was very harsh.
I can see this resolvement is going nowhere. I dont see the point in having a dispute resolution when disputes arent resolved and moderators dont take anything into consideration. I didnt know what was allowed and what was not and I especially find it amusing that I just posted at the same level of black humour as what other people posted and yet I was banned0 -
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