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returntothepit >> discuss >> WHY YOU DON'T REPLY TO TROLLS by conservationist on May 19,2011 4:37pm
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toggletoggle post by conservationist  at May 19,2011 4:37pm
ouchdrummer said[orig][quote]
ouchdrummer said[orig][quote]
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?).



toggletoggle post by sxealex   at May 19,2011 5:05pm
where do u draw the line for trolling because i think you troll alot. FUCKING TROLL



toggletoggle post by pam   at May 19,2011 5:08pm
sxealex said[orig][quote]
where do u draw the line for trolling because i think you troll alot. FUCKING TROLL



toggletoggle post by Lamp  at May 19,2011 5:12pm
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.



toggletoggle post by FuckIsMySignature at May 19,2011 5:13pm edited May 19,2011 5:15pm



toggletoggle post by goatcatalyst   at May 19,2011 5:17pm
ITT: autistic catch 22



toggletoggle post by DestroyYouAlot  at May 19,2011 5:20pm edited May 19,2011 5:21pm
Lamp said[orig][quote]
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.





toggletoggle post by arkquimanthorn at May 19,2011 5:41pm
backed hard



toggletoggle post by Slag at May 19,2011 6:00pm
We're all fucking trolls if we are going to do the semantic dance.



toggletoggle post by FuckIsMySignature at May 19,2011 6:14pm
Slag said[orig][quote]
We're all fucking trolls if we are going to do the semantic dance.





toggletoggle post by ArrowHeadNLI at May 19,2011 6:29pm
Slag said[orig][quote]
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.



toggletoggle post by arilliusbm  at May 19,2011 6:44pm
I am? I'm not a real person. I'm actually Spinoza.



toggletoggle post by arilliusbm  at May 19,2011 6:45pm
(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..



toggletoggle post by the_reverend   at Jun 24,2011 2:30pm
DAVID MYATTT



toggletoggle post by SLAAAAG at Jun 24,2011 2:32pm
duh



toggletoggle post by xmikex at Jun 24,2011 3:04pm


and THAT'S whyyy you don't reply to trolls.



toggletoggle post by Lamp  at Jun 24,2011 4:08pm
When you don't reply to trolls, Beanie Babies surface.



toggletoggle post by ark at Jun 24,2011 4:24pm
J. Walter Weatherman



toggletoggle post by ouchdrummer   at Jun 25,2011 1:24am
i got served?



toggletoggle post by Martin at Jan 30,2012 10:17am



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