DNFTT

I have seen someone who seems to have no brainz troll in a couple of threads. THuis far, nobody has fed this troll. Let’s see what happens if we en masse do not feel this one. Think of it as an experiment…


Yer pal,
Satan

*TIME ELAPSED SINCE I QUIT SMOKING:
Six months, three weeks, two days, 5 hours, 55 minutes and 44 seconds.
8249 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,031.23.
Extra time with Drain Bead: 4 weeks, 15 hours, 25 minutes.

David B used me as a cite!*

Examples, Satan? A quick, cursory check seems to show that while he (she?) isn’t exactly the biggest contributor to the board, he (she?) is hardly trolling. Perhaps I missed one or two of his (hers?) grand total of twenty posts?

OTOH, a certain famous athlete has apparently been gracing us with his cross-posted, mutliple-subject-heading garbage…

wonders what part of “If you spot a troll, or think you did, please email the mods and admins. Don’t take it to the board” that Satan didn’t understand.
If you are confused on the matter, here’s a link where Esprix tried the exact same thing, only a few days ago.
Pay special attention to what **Tubadiva and John Corrado ** say on the subject.

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*Originally posted by pepperlandgirl *

**wonders what part of “If you spot a troll, or think you did, please email the mods and admins. Don’t take it to the board” that Satan didn’t understand.
One could even say that a troll would accuse people of being guilty of something - say, that they look at people differently because of their sexual orientation - and just not respond when directly called on it.


Yer pal,
Satan

*I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR:
Six months, three weeks, two days, 13 hours, 32 minutes and 38 seconds.
8262 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,032.82.
Extra life with Drain Bead: 4 weeks, 16 hours, 30 minutes.

David B used me as a cite!*

And whatever you do, don’t make any sudden movements, and don’t make eye contact. They consider that threatening, and have been known to attack.

If one comes after you, grab leaves and twigs off the ground, throw them up in the air over your head, lift your legs in a really animated way, stomp your feet, and make a squealing noise like a pig.

This won’t help, but I will get a kick out of it.

…and Milo once again describes how he goes out to pick up women. Maybe THAT’S why you never get lucky…

::running like hell::

What makes you think that Satan DIDN’T e-mail the mods or admins about the problem? They can’t respond to their e-mail 24-7, and a simple message of DNFTT to tide the boards over until they do is not so horrible, is it? I believe what the mods were commenting on in the thread you cited are the “Troll Outing” threads, where the sole reason for posting them is to prove that So-and-So is actually the banned poster Such-and-Such. That is, as a matter of fact, what they were talking about with Esprix, because he was actually WRONG about the link. But an observation of simple trolling in the Pit is not a big deal at all. Hell, are you going to go complain in the Jack-Ass Dean Tyler thread that people are breaking the rules there?

I think you’re misunderstanding things, PLG. But I’ve grown used to seeing that from you.

Hey Falcon, if some of us woman didn’t like men who grab leaves and twigs off the ground, throw them up in the air over their head, lift their legs in a really animated way, stomp their feet, and make a squealing noise like a pig, we wouldn’t have a lot to choose from, would we?

I see you all must have stopped by my house last night… :smiley:

I see you all must have stopped by my house last night… :smiley:

I just looked at all of his posts except the couple from way back in March when he registered. While nothing he’s posted is terribly funny or enlightening, I’m afraid I don’t see anything I’d call trolling, Satan. Except that he said the Yankees suck. Could that be what you’re referring to? Why don’t you point us to the specific posts?

I’d imagine opening a thread about a troll is the ultimate way of feeding him, no?

If you want to open a thread a la Jack Dean or Wildest Bill, criticizing their behavior, the by all means go ahead. But your OP reall comes off as a public declaration that Brainz is now a troll and should be ignored by everyone. And I’d really rather not encourage that. Let people decide that for themsleves.

And for the record, Drain, whether or not Esprix was WRONG in his accusation is irrelevant. We don’t like any public outings of trolls. It’s the declaration we are discouraging, not the accuracy of it.

And Satan, if you did email a mod, I really don’t see why the SDMB needs to be “tided over” until action is taken, if action is taken. I mean you yourself admitted that no one is responding to the guy, so why try to fix something that ain’t broke? Do we really need to be warned? If he’s a troll he’ll be banned. Warning us over email and only over email is the best way to go about that.

Really, what’s the point of public announcements like this?

First of all, I did e-mail an administrator.

Second of all, please note that I did not have the subject of the thread, “Brainz: Fuck off!” The acronym is probably not known by this twit, and he probably won’t check it.

And even if he does, all I was saying is let’s NOT respond to him and see if he does, indeed, go away.

Finally, I guess nobody say his post in this thread. In what was a nice discussion between football fans about the surprises and disappointments in the NFL this year, this was his comments:

No… That’s not trolling at ALL… :rolleyes:

In any event, feel free to let this thread die if it bothers you. I did not break any rules, and I explained my motivation as well as I care to.


Yer pal,
Satan

*I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR:
Six months, three weeks, two days, 16 hours, 41 minutes and 3 seconds.
8267 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,033.48.
Extra life with Drain Bead: 4 weeks, 16 hours, 55 minutes.

David B used me as a cite!*

Well, I have to admit that I’m in complete agreement with the above quote.

I would’ve spelled stuff correctly, natch. And I wouldn’t have burdened a lot of perfectly innocent pro-football fans with my opinion…any more than I would have interrupted a discussion of Puccini with an “opera sucks!” post.

But he DOES have a point, there.

I do believe that’s what makes it a troll.

Nobody accused Opalcat of trolling when she started “sports suck” threads before. And if this dipshit would have started a thread - in the appropriate forum for it (IMHO would not be that forum, IMHO, heh) - saying what he said, it would have been different. Then he would have just been wrong, like you are, Uke! :wink:


Yer pal,
Satan

*I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR:
Six months, three weeks, two days, 17 hours, 3 minutes and 29 seconds.
8268 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,033.55.
Extra life with Drain Bead: 4 weeks, 17 hours, 0 minutes.

David B used me as a cite!*

I didn’t mean that you guys wouldn’t have jumped on Esprix unless he was wrong. I meant that the reason you guys have this policy in effect is precisely BECAUSE someone could publicly post the wrong idea, in effect turning the tide of public opinion against an innocent poster for no reason. And that’s why it was imperative that you mention this rule after the debacle with Esprix, so that something like that would hopefully not happen again. We can have assumptions all we want, but it’s up to you guys to determine whether or not we’re pulling them out of our asses.

Sheesh, leave it to you to force me to write a paragraph description of a half-sentence comment…

I think the misunderstanding goes a little deeper and is at the very least not at all one sided.

FTR, Satan sent email to ED ZOTTI.

Not to someone that actually moderates on the board, but someone that does not get to read the board every day and might not even get to read his email every day, even.

Ed does not routinely get these emails. He forwarded this one to me, as he would any board matter for one of the people that does work on the board everyday, that’s for us to handle.

Time of “DNFTT” posting to board:

Time of email to Ed Zotti:

Time of DrainBead’s posting:

your humble TubaDiva
Administrator

That’s nice, Tuba.

Now, would you care for me to point out the threads where I said to everyone that my e-mail was fucked up at work from Thursday until just now? Would you care to know that I got 90 e-mails in my in-box last night, all of them which were sent over the weekend? How about the fact that e-mails that I sent were being held in a similar limbo?

The reason I sent it to Ed is because I like Ed. I don’t like you. And this is precisely indicative of why.


Yer pal (well, not a certain Administrator’s pal),
Satan

*I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR:
Six months, three weeks, two days, 17 hours, 19 minutes and 37 seconds.
8268 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,033.61.
Extra life with Drain Bead: 4 weeks, 17 hours, 0 minutes.

David B used me as a cite!*

ah heck…

some evidence for ya Brian…

  • edited to protect private email addresses, as a courtesy, as well as content of the email, because they ain’t relevant.

Peices…