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    Cold ComfortCold Comfort Posts: 120
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    I agree to.
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    RadiomaniacRadiomaniac Posts: 43,510
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    Thete are a couple who have surfaced lately, they're all over the forum like a rash. Pretty poor efforts at trolling too.
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    BastardBeaverBastardBeaver Posts: 11,903
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    silentNate wrote: »
    This. End of.

    I'll take all of the traditional DS trolls pissing about over any of the recent MRA posters attracted to DS :( >:(

    What's an MRA?
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    dee123dee123 Posts: 46,340
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    I know it has a bad rep, but I haven't encountered many yet. No more then any other site.
    Maybe it has improved for the time being?

    Just wait for an LGBT related thread. 9 times out of 10...
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    SJ_MentalSJ_Mental Posts: 16,138
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    This place has a few, Some pretty dedicated to the cause, Nothing on some other sites I post on though. Maybe the trolls should be embraced, Elsewhere they are given a badge to indicate they are a troll account saves the banning and re-registering stuff.
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    JasonJason Posts: 76,557
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    I was reading a couple of other forums over the weekend that had threads complaining specifically about DS and found more than a few posts from people absolutely 100% convinced that i'm a troll :)
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    SJ_MentalSJ_Mental Posts: 16,138
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    I was reading a couple of other forums over the weekend that had threads complaining specifically about DS and found more than a few posts from people absolutely 100% convinced that i'm a troll :)

    We all have a little troll in us, It is how you use it that counts, Scurries back under his bridge.
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    MAWMAW Posts: 38,777
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    I was reading a couple of other forums over the weekend that had threads complaining specifically about DS and found more than a few posts from people absolutely 100% convinced that i'm a troll :)

    Some folks don't know what a troll is. Some of them might realise if they looked in a mirror occasionally.
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    CravenHavenCravenHaven Posts: 13,953
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    SJ_Mental wrote: »
    Maybe the trolls should be embraced, Elsewhere they are given a badge to indicate they are a troll account saves the banning and re-registering stuff.
    sounds like a fun idea. Some forums give people titles based on their post counts and the moderators sometimes give them their own title. DS could substitute the redundant "Forum member" with a "Trollgorithm" rating based on how many posts of theirs gets reported and how many separate members mention the word "troll" in their threads or when quoting them. Then half of the people who usually get sucked in by taking the stuff as genuine will have a second thought and say "Nah" and leave the keyboard alone.
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    silentNatesilentNate Posts: 84,079
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    What's an MRA?

    Men's Rights Activist... basically anti-feminist posters. Not sure what has attracted them to DS but there appears to have been a slew of them over the past four months. :(
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    DianaFireDianaFire Posts: 12,711
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    silentNate wrote: »
    Men's Rights Activist... basically anti-feminist posters. Not sure what has attracted them to DS but there appears to have been a slew of them over the past four months. :(

    I didn't know they even existed until they turned up here. I've never met any in real life.
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    MAWMAW Posts: 38,777
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    DianaFire wrote: »
    I didn't know they even existed until they turned up here. I've never met any in real life.

    Nor me. Perhaps they don't get out much?
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    Mark39LondonMark39London Posts: 3,977
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    Trolls can be funny, but they need to have more than one brain cell functioning at a time or they just end up frothing in the Politics area of the forums.
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    DianaFireDianaFire Posts: 12,711
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    MAW wrote: »
    Nor me. Perhaps they don't get out much?

    Probably not. Must be difficult to do if they think half the population is out to get them.
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    AddisonianAddisonian Posts: 16,377
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    muggins14 wrote: »
    I sometimes get the impression that some people think there's great kudos to be had in being the first to accuse a new FM of being one or the other (or both) when really it all looks rather juvenile at times to me, like frat-house initiation rituals.
    Yeah, definitely. It can be quite embarrassing to read actually.

    Contrary to what some might think, I actually don't mind trolls/PBUs. If they aren't being nasty or malicious then let them get on with it. Some of them can be pretty funny.
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    JasonJason Posts: 76,557
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    silentNate wrote: »
    Men's Rights Activist... basically anti-feminist posters. Not sure what has attracted them to DS but there appears to have been a slew of them over the past four months. :(

    Another bloody acronym to learn :)

    Can't we just call them "wibbles" ?

    whiny inadequate bores believing ladies equal satan?

    Wibbles is much funnier :D
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    DianaFireDianaFire Posts: 12,711
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    Another bloody acronym to learn :)

    Can't we just call them "wibbles" ?

    whiny inadequate bores believing ladies equal satan?

    Wibbles is much funnier :D

    That is MARVELLOUS. I almost can't wait for the next thread!
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    agrainofsandagrainofsand Posts: 8,693
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    There hasn't been a good troll at DS for ages :(
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    Pumping IronPumping Iron Posts: 29,891
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    I was reading a couple of other forums over the weekend that had threads complaining specifically about DS and found more than a few posts from people absolutely 100% convinced that i'm a troll :)

    Haha, I have also been called the biggest troll on DS :D
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    Jane Doh!Jane Doh! Posts: 43,307
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    Haha, I have also been called the biggest troll on DS :D

    You're nobody until at least one person has accused you of being a troll. :D
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    silentNatesilentNate Posts: 84,079
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    Another bloody acronym to learn :)

    Can't we just call them "wibbles" ?

    whiny inadequate bores believing ladies equal satan?

    Wibbles is much funnier :D

    Superb, love it!! :o :cool: :D
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    Sky_GuySky_Guy Posts: 6,859
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    I think members tend to mark users as a troll as soon as the user goes against the majority.

    That is the problem with a liberal (which DS really is as a whole) community, they are all for liberal and free speech until they hear something they don't like.
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    CroctacusCroctacus Posts: 18,307
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    A good troll is a joy to behold.

    Alas, they are few and far between.
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    terry45terry45 Posts: 2,876
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    Sky_Guy wrote: »
    I think members tend to mark users as a troll as soon as the user goes against the majority.

    That is the problem with a liberal (which DS really is as a whole) community, they are all for liberal and free speech until they hear something they don't like.

    I see your activities on here have come to the attention of the dogs sleeping forum.
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    Sky_GuySky_Guy Posts: 6,859
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    terry45 wrote: »
    I see your activities on here have come to the attention of the dogs sleeping forum.

    Thanks for letting me know about that, I will have to go over there and sort them all out.

    Edit: been over there, they are slagging off loads of users on here.

    They are all banned on here and seem to like slagging us off.

    How sad.

    I think I will depart for a while.:(
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