MetaTalk posts tagged with troll

Please remove the hook from your lip before attempting to answer.

zhivota — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:51:10 -0800

Does this AskMe post seem fishy to you? I guess I'm open to this being legit, but the combination of ZERO posting history, extremely poor grammar and scatter-brained phrasing, and arbitrary statements like this all incline me to suspicion: "... finding another partner to marry is not easy as I have to get married again which means a lot of money need to be invested, around $ 37. 000." I understand the idea that marriage in certain cultures requires investment, but this arbitrary figure is somehow flagging my scam-o-meter. Could this be some sort of culture-trolling? A lot of the answers already are devolving into a cultural guessing-game...

Trolling Ask.Mefi?

chunking express — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:06:28 -0800

"Well it appears I accomplished exactly what I wanted when I posted (what I obviously knew to be) a contentious question. I left out some details initially..simply because I wanted to see how much people were willing the assume about my friend's relationship (and my problem with it)..." It seems like poor form to ask an ask.mefi question to try and bait a particular type of response.

This dude is a troll.

Afroblanco — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:58:22 -0800

After 8 years of lurking, Gamien Boffenburg crawls out of the woodwork to ... defend the use of the swastika, compare Israel to Nazi Germany, and joke about sexually assaulting a Zionist. And that's it. That's all he brings to the table. Gamien Boffenburg, I hereby invite you to crawl back under whichever rock you came from.

We need to talk about this...

anotherpanacea — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:48:54 -0800

During the GiveWell hubbub, some commenters become obsessed with outing a pseudonymous troll calling itself "Rachel Tension." We need to talk about the ethics of outing, unmasking, and breaking anonymity. Rachel Tension was linked, apparently erroneously, to "a junior academic with an interest in race," and that person received a threatening e-mail. One of our own, Catch, posed on GiftHub as the pseudonym Persona E Person, further fanning the flames of speculation. Some of the energy devoted to exposing GiveWell's fraud was siphoned off into the efforts to punish the person who told us to "Go f*ck yourself. I wipe my *ss with Metafilter. You mistake an incited mob for a community." The pursuit of truth and justice got diverted into a quest for vengeance. Look: it's okay to out self-linkers, but not okay to out people who insult you. Phil Cubeta has asked why MetaFilter hasn't responded to his requests for a larger discussion of this, and I think it's because most of us would rather prosecute interlopers like Holden Karnofsky than long-time members who muck about on other websites. I'm not sure that's good enough. There are (at least) two options: 1. Membership here isn't contingent on your behavior in the real world or elsewhere on the internet. Do what you like outside, just leave the roughhousing out of your Metafilter contributions. (cortex wrote: "But in general, what people do offsite is not something that translates cleanly to administrative action onsite; I don't hold any sway over how people choose to conduct themselves, nor do I want to presume that kind of influence. ") 2. The metaphorical pitchforks and torches we grab for flameouts in MetaTalk are wildly inappropriate in the wider internet. It's extremely stupid to turn community policing into inter-site warfare, and it makes us all look bad. If you do it, the moderators will suspend or ban you, just as they would if you outed a member of the metafilter to the wider world. (cf. the recent mefimail outings, etc.) (cortex also wrote: "If someone's offsite behavior is so bad, or implicates metafilter badly, it may be something that'll lead to onsite consequences, but I can't remember the last time anything like that happened, and (again, barring some clearer-cut explanation of the Rachel situation) I'm not clear that it did here, either.") I think this conversation should be happening here, at the site of the transgression, rather than at the site that we transgressed against.

The fish is in the pants

four panels — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:56:54 -0800

quonsar is consistently a fucking idiot. This call-out will no doubt give him a hard on, but the free pass to troll is really baffling.

[username] posts a single link to a Kos diary...

monju_bosatsu — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:04:07 -0800

Troutfishing posts a single link to a Kos diary, acknowledges that it will be deleted, and taunts other members. Seems like a vacation might be in order.

It's a selflinker gone wild

blue_beetle — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:01:59 -0800

MeFites Let's Roll!

Can we have this shot down?

TimothyMason — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:30:30 -0800

This post (http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/43307) is spreading a malignant internet troll. Could it be shot down, please?

Troll is so ... quaint

MiguelCardoso — Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:56:51 -0800

"Troll" may have a respectable lineage on the Web but, frankly, for some of us who joined later in the day, it seems like a quaint, medieval way of classifying anyone who's the least bit provocative, thought-provoking or even unorthodox. Recently, any forceful, strongly-worded attempt to spark discussion with a non-mainstream viewpoint, generally from the Left, has been lamely denounced as a "troll". Could it be time to give the ye olde troll accusation a well-deserved rest? I hope so. The English language is one of the richest in the world and troll sounds parochial, pimply, nerdish, cliquey, incestuous and, ultimately, meaningless.

Calling Out Hama7

Steve_at_Linnwood — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 17:38:48 -0800

classic troll: toss a turd you *know* will incite much argument, for no apparent reason.

Calling Out McBain

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 08 Mar 2004 21:58:02 -0800

"I really don't care how bad an FPP this is...basically I don't give two shits how biased my FPP is. "

Callout/Etiquette: please have the courtesy to put email in profile

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:30:33 -0800

Proposed : That if you're going to incessantly troll threads and insult people's intelligence, all in an infuriatingly supercilious and unctuous tone that seems intended to inflame, you should at least have the courtesy to provide an email address on your profile, disposable or otherwise.

No Iraq amputee trolling please.

SuzySmith — Sat, 26 Jul 2003 21:12:14 -0800

Come on do we need this type of trolling here? (more inside)

Calling Out ParisParamus

rushmc — Mon, 20 Jan 2003 23:47:59 -0800

Is there any reason to tolerate inflammatory hate-screed like this?

Once again: PATHETIC, delusional, A-HOLE PACIFISTS.

FPP: Trolling?

insomnyuk — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 22:54:33 -0800

Trolls disguised as pleas for piss tests? Maybe someone should just ask ponchogaddo to stop pissing all over the threads.

Is MidasMulligan trolling?

jacobw — Tue, 05 Mar 2002 01:24:10 -0800

Troll, Ignorant, or Other?

Callout: "fat, lazy, no discipline"

Skot — Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:21:47 -0800

"In the end, it is true that fat people are lazy and/or have no self discipline . . . "

Leading to "idiot troll" accusations. Ugliness. And I didn't join in for a change!

shut the hell up

crunchland — Sat, 04 Aug 2001 05:16:11 -0800

"OWillis, shut the hell up, you pinhead. If you have something to add, add it. If not, keep your damn, troll, stinky, ass shut. I do not have time for people like you. Right now, you are not welcome in this thread."

Mickey Suttle

rodii — Sat, 26 May 2001 20:22:15 -0800

Is Mickey Suttle back? In his newest incarnation (as "ordinaryworld") he's posted three links, two (less than two weeks apart) to amandahades.com and one to supershadow.com. And of course these link to each other, and to other sites in the Suttle "empire." In his previous incarnation (as "supremecourt," "historical", "jpl" and "vehicle"!) we talked about him here.

Why should I be nice

cCranium — Tue, 15 May 2001 10:15:53 -0800

...just stokin the flames ya'll. Be nice.

Why on earth should I be nice to someone who's knowingly being an ass?

Don't make me post a 'No Trolling' sign... Too Late.

mathowie — Sun, 17 Sep 2000 17:26:31 -0800

this is an out and out troll, does anyone not agree?

I'm adding "no trolling" to the guidelines.

Have I Trolled?

mrmorgan — Tue, 25 Apr 2000 21:14:59 -0800

Okay, I've been accused of trolling. Have I trolled? And what did I say that was a troll? I'll try to avoid it in the future if I've horribly offended the community. Mark likes Metafilter, and doesn't want to be noise in the signal.