Who's "trolling" now? Don't we have enough vituperative political "debates" around here without somebody singling out and baiting certain individuals by name?
posted by davy
on Sep 20, 2005 -
351 comments
I grant that my first
comment in
this thread was a little troll-ish, and I'm sorry about that. I probably contributed a pretty bad atmosphere to the discussion there. But was
this really warranted?
posted by koeselitz
on May 2, 2005 -
36 comments
Excuse me ignorance for a few moments, but I in all honesty cannot for the life of me understand why
bevets is being considered a troll/flamer in
this thread about evolution.
Now, I am a full proponent of the Theory of Evolution. However, that said, all bevets is doing is
disagreeing with the Theory. Some people like
orthogonality decide to actually
respond to bevets' ideas. Not to pick on any one user, but then you get
bshort who sounds more like a troll than bevets by
not even thoughtfully responding to bevets' creationist ideas.
In all honestly, if byver wants to have an open dialogue about this topic, what is the problem? Does that make him a troll if he earnestly wants to discuss the topic, even if you all think he sucks at it because if so, then a whole LOT of users would be trolls with whom the masses just happen to agree with.
*note* I do NOT intend this thread to be a pileon over bevets (enough of that happened in the thread), but rather what makes a troll vs. a good poster since all I see here is a very strong disagreement in ideologies.
posted by jmd82
on Mar 26, 2005 -
59 comments
Ok, I wasn't going to say anything when Witty decided to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to ruin
amberglow's thread with his particular (read: vapid, boring) brand of insane troll logic. However, he then decided an interesting course of action would be to make a similarly unwarranted (perhaps even moreso)
comment in an unrelated thread.
Therefore, I politely and humbly request that Witty please refrain from making similarily irrelevant--and snide--comments in the future, at least in in the blue.
posted by The God Complex
on Jun 14, 2004 -
124 comments
We've all seen what can happen when MeFi devolves into pointless personality conflicts: the site gets hijacked to propogate something that 99.9% of the users don't care about. We've also all seen one member virtually drag another into such conflicts, making a two-way crapfest out of what was originally just one-sided goofiness...
[more inside]
posted by Ignatius J. Reilly
on Oct 7, 2003 -
24 comments
Us declares itself above the law.
Other than one or two people here and there talking about the topic at hand, this thread was basically a shouting match and trolling session. Is this the level of debate that now passes for inteligent from the MetaFilter community?
posted by Zool
on May 6, 2002 -
20 comments
I'd use the word
troll in this case, but it has some connotations that are a bit loaded given the subject.
posted by briank
on May 1, 2002 -
33 comments
Was I trolling? I had an admittedly heated reaction to an issue I care about, and blasted "conservatives/republicans/the right" as a group. But was I way outta line?
posted by owillis
on May 13, 2001 -
17 comments
