Oh man you’re all killing me 
Yeah it was a forum for people who like to walk barefoot. I wanted to know how people work up to walk most of the time barefoot in cities or in the countryside, so I registered there and got banned not even a day after. If you didn’t put your city/postal code in your location field they assumed you were a foot fetishist, from what I was about to guess from the email they sent me.
But if you put your location down you’re not? :dubious:
Unless you put down something like Toeledo.
Or your favorite landmark is the St. Louis Arch.
Is starting a bunch of threads and then not participating in them a form of trolling?
It can be. Other times it’s just very annoying. I didn’t expect etv78 to come back to this thread before he (predictably) got called on the carpet for his behavior.
As a lark, I once signed up on the Stormfront (white nationalist) MB. Members who are not WN are limited to one specific forum, and their posts are reviewed by moderators before being posted. Even at that, I lasted less than one day before being banned.
I didn’t troll specifically, but I did have a rather flip and irreverant attitude to the WN movement, which ticked off one of the key mods.
If you call making reasonable but critical comments on Sarah Palin’s facebook page “trolling”, then yeah. I couldn’t believe it. One moment my comment was there, and the next it was gone, and I could no longer post anything. How I got so bored that I even went there in the first place, I will never know, but it happened.
What does that have to do with whether it is trolling? Trolling is not just a word that means breaking the rules. It’s posting to get a rise out of people. Posting the truth where you know it is unwelcome may be rude, but it’s not trolling if your intent is to inform rather than infuriate.
And, no, I’ve never trolled. I’ve been banned once from TVTropes, but they have a policy where they ban you for screwing up, and then you have to ask to be allowed back after showing remorse for your actions. (though, out of principle, I’ve refused to do so and use a sock–which is perfectly within the rules on that site.)
Other than that, I’ve never even been banned. The closest would be that I, for some reason, never got off the “moderated before posting” group on one forum, even though the owner said they only did that to spammers, something I would only be slightly more likely to do than trolling.
Well, I guess I did troll the Snackpit a few times, but, really, that’s kinda the point, isn’t it?
Hi.
That’s no longer true. Hell, it’s even a sticky.
What is this referring to?
I posted a tad wryly but BigT’s admission that he trolls another board apparently came to their notice and they issued a banning and stickied it.
Me too. Also, for asserting that unassisted childbirth is dangerous.
Never been banned from a site, but I left a site I’d enjoyed for a couple of years. It was a site based on the love of the works of a particular author.
There was a guy there (I’ll call him poster ‘x’) who was incredibly right-wing, and incredibly libertarian. Some other poster even made a joke of it by posting one of those political x-y graphs with an arrow saying “poster ‘x’ 50 miles thataway->”.
The guy dragged the discussion amongst the otherwise reasonable posters on the board so far right and libertarian that eventually I had to point out that, having read his previous anecdotal posts, it was obvious that he’d based his entire political belief system (which can be summed up basically as “Fuck the poor, and the US military is morally obligated to attack without mercy any country whose government is to the left of Ghengis Khan”) on his hatred of his own parents for being unambitious and accepting food stamps and other government handouts while he was growing up.
My post got deleted and I gotta admit that I sent a drunken PM to the mod responsible telling him that he could go screw himself as well. I wasn’t banned, but I felt bad about it, so I left the site permanently of my own volition.
I miss being a part of that forum. It’s a close-knit community, and one of the other mods is probably the coolest person I’ve ever met online. But I literally hate that one poster too much to make it worth ever going back.
Which would make more sense if the board could actually ban people. And if it didn’t solely exist so people could troll. Like I said, that’s the point of board: why else would they put out a fake ban for someone just so they could have a someone who posts there come in here and post an attack on me?
You got a problem with me, the Pit is open.
You clearly post on the Snack board. You have just admitted to trolling it as well. Unless you’re going to tell me you don’t post those fake links like everyone else does.
Oh god. They’re into unassisted homebirthing on that forum. UNASSISTED HOMEBIRTHING. Not no epidurals. Not some ice and a midwife and maybe an ambulance on standby. Oh no. As in the pregnant woman does this herself. They’ve even argued that women should do this when they’re carrying twins.
Most dogs have more common sense than they do.
I’ve given birth twice. At no point in the middle of that storm of hormones and exhaustion did it ever occur to me to refuse the assistance of trained medical people. If I could have managed it I would have let said medical people give birth for me on the grounds that they were more qualified to do so properly than I was.
