WHY YOU DON'T REPLY TO TROLLS[views:3086][posts:19]_________________________________________ [May 19,2011 4:37pm - conservationist ""] ouchdrummer said: ouchdrummer said:i still don't understand why people get mad at other people responding to trolls. seriously, why? I mean, let's say a troll posts a thread, and i respond to it. The thread doesn't make it any harder for people that aren't interested to get to the threads that THEY deem worthy. They aren't FORCED to read them, and they absolutely aren't forced to post in them... but they do. a lot. They always feel the compulsion to let people know that THEY shouldn't respond either. Which is a little weird. Glad you asked. People scan your forum for activity, and respond based on what they see. A bunch of troll posts => readers are more likely to flake out, forum gets less real activity, people are less likely to come back. In addition, you're then using server time/resources on something that's crap. Imagine it this way: If you picked up a newspaper, and it had three good articles and one crap article, how much farther are you likely to read if the first article you read is meaningless crap? Even more, there's the broken windows theory -- although some claim it is "debunked" (retards) -- which is that if you see other people doing broken shit on a forum, you're more likely to do broken shit yourself, and/or bail out figuring it's an internet ghetto (interghetto?). |
| _________________________________ [May 19,2011 5:05pm - sxealex ""] where do u draw the line for trolling because i think you troll alot. FUCKING TROLL |
| _____________________________ [May 19,2011 5:08pm - pam ""] sxealex said:where do u draw the line for trolling because i think you troll alot. FUCKING TROLL |
| ______________________________ [May 19,2011 5:12pm - Lamp ""] Yeah really, of all the people to make this thread, the guy who posted on here under the name NIGGER and made a bunch of bullshit posts mocking media caricatures of black people did it. I'm totally listening, bro. |
| ___________________________________________ [May 19,2011 5:13pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] [img] |
| ______________________________________ [May 19,2011 5:17pm - goatcatalyst ""] ITT: autistic catch 22 |
| ________________________________________ [May 19,2011 5:20pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] Lamp said:Yeah really, of all the people to make this thread, the guy who posted on here under the name NIGGER and made a bunch of bullshit posts mocking media caricatures of black people did it. I'm totally listening, bro. [img] |
| _________________________________________ [May 19,2011 5:41pm - arkquimanthorn ""] backed hard |
| ______________________________ [May 19,2011 6:00pm - Slag ""] We're all fucking trolls if we are going to do the semantic dance. |
| ___________________________________________ [May 19,2011 6:14pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] Slag said:We're all fucking trolls if we are going to do the semantic dance. :HAMMAH: |
| ______________________________________ [May 19,2011 6:29pm - ArrowHeadNLI ""] Slag said:We're all fucking trolls if we are going to do the semantic dance. Yeah, but Conservationalist trolls so hard, for so long now, that it took me like 5 years to even realize Aril was here. |
| ____________________________________ [May 19,2011 6:44pm - arilliusbm ""] I am? I'm not a real person. I'm actually Spinoza. |
| ____________________________________ [May 19,2011 6:45pm - arilliusbm ""] (little does he know that I've been trolling with him for years, under different message boards with different names LOL) sciforums.com? check FMP.com? check? anus audiofile? oh, wait.. |
| ______________________________________ [Jun 24,2011 2:30pm - the_reverend ""] DAVID MYATTT |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 24,2011 2:32pm - SLAAAAG ""] duh |
| ________________________________ [Jun 24,2011 3:04pm - xmikex ""] [img] and THAT'S whyyy you don't reply to trolls. |
| ______________________________ [Jun 24,2011 4:08pm - Lamp ""] When you don't reply to trolls, Beanie Babies surface. |
| ______________________________ [Jun 24,2011 4:24pm - ark ""] J. Walter Weatherman |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 25,2011 1:24am - ouchdrummer ""] i got served? |
| __________________________________ [Jan 30,2012 10:17am - Martin ""] :whipper: |