That's why I put "IMO" in it. I don't care that MM posts like that. If he wants to use silly names, then I don't need to take him seriously as an actual basketball poster.
By that definition calling someone a troll or suggesting they are trolling has led this thread off topic and therefore where intentional or not that post is trolling and should be addressed since trolling is against the rules.
This. Repeatedly reiterating one's dissatisfaction with a particular member of the franchise may be tedious, and may even be childish, but I don't see how it is troll-like. As an aside, there should be a consensus on the adjectival form of troll. Trollish? Trollific? Trollene? Mixumy?
I realize that, and I feel for you and your family. That still doesn't mean you need to spend what I perceive to be so much negative energy on this little inconsequential board.
I thought Denny created a "suspended" category, so that would show up under the name... now it says "banned user" when it would just say "banned"
"So while I was suspended technically for saying PapaG has Aids, I call bull crap on that, but I will accept that I was suspended for giving unsolicited medical advice and for saying PapaG should learn how to pound the sand in his vagina into a beautiful but disgusting window."
"Even though I've served my prison sentence, I only admit to having committed two of the three crimes of which I was convicted, and I believe my actions to have been justified." "Clearly you didn't learn your lesson--back to the stocks with you, peasant!!"
IMO there are a couple of different kinds of (for lack of a better team) trolling. There is the BlazerWookee type of trolling where he, as he likes to say, "lights fuse and runs away giggling." It's playful, teasing and is more about trying to just have fun. There are troll posts that poke fun at other troll posts. Like when I posted the other night, "Great game tonight, Lillard is really improving his trade value. I think he's worth two Conleys." Then there are troll posts that a person does just to piss people off. But what makes it worse is they get all indignant when people get pissed off. Not to single out Cmeese but when I read a post where he wants to trade Lillard for Conley my first thought is what a fucking idiot. Now I'm smart enough and polite enough not to post it but I am thinking it. My next thought is, oh fuck, this is going to start a shit storm. I'm going to have to watch this thread now because people are going to post pretty much what my initial reaction was. That's how I know it's not only a troll post but a bad troll post. But then when he complains that people are insulting him instead of discussing the legitimacy of his post that's when I know it's the bad kind of troll post. It's kind of like that old supreme court interpretation of what pornography is, "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it."
This is what gets me. I still think he was serious about that post. He came off as serious when it was brought up in another one of his threads. So the guy had a serious opinion, gets flamed, and it's considered a troll post? I mean, clearly it was a dumb idea, but he brought up an idea he believed in, gets bashed, and he's considered the troll?
