I’m referring to the ‘Democrats on stage with Louis Farrakhan’ thread.
How are threads such as these NOT trolling? After all, it was deliberately sensationalized and politicized, grossly misrepresentative and clearly posted to simply to outrage and attract reactions.
The OP makes no attempt to defend his stance, respond to other posters, or ever return to his thread.
This isn’t an accusation, if it WAS considered trolling it would have been modded, I assume.
Can anyone explain what makes these kind of threads, by long time posters, NOT trolling? I’d be really interested in understanding the distinction.
I guess it’s not trolling because it’s in the Pit? I know trolling’s technically against the rules there too, but they take a more charitable view of what is and isn’t trolling than other forums - piss-poorly constructed rant against “liberal hypocrisy” probably gets a pass. There’s probably also some thinking that, being in the Pit, it’ll generate more fitting punishment than anything they’d dole out (Miller’s not one for warnings when gentler modding will do, after all)
…based on that particular posters other posts here: the thread wasn’t posted with the intent to stir up trouble. But was a genuine expression of exactly what they think. Hence it was “not trolling” but a rant posted in the wrong forum, so it was moved.
…62 million people voted for Trump. People believe that 9/11 was an inside job. Pizzagate is a thing that actually happened. I was talking to a very close friend the other day and she turned around and said to me “but I don’t believe in that evolution thing. I didn’t come from a monkey!”
There are millions of people that hold alternative opinions to what one would consider the “mainstream.” They exist. I’ve talked to them. People vote for them. They actually believe what they are saying. They aren’t making it up. Trolling is a deliberate act with the intent of getting people angry. You’ve made a case that this is what happened here: but you haven’t made a particularly strong case. Sorry, I remain unconvinced.
I’ve posted to a thread before then had to go to work and not revisited it for a week. And by the time I got back to it the conversation had drifted so much it wasn’t worth dropping back in. It happens.
This. 90% of my friends on FB are Repubs, and they often express the same sentiment.
I’m not sure if I would want to silence people like these. I REALLY don’t want this place to become more of an echo chamber than it already is.
That said, I do understand your frustration Elbows.
So it sounds like the poster in question has a long and contributory posting history that provides useful context to what certainly appears to be a troll OP? Is that the general consensus?
I certainly know a lot of people who think that Farrakhan is a really bad guy, and who see the cropping him out of photographs next to prominent Democratic figures, and the omission of his presence from what was otherwise heavy news coverage (and covered as a very political event), as evidence that he gets preferentially delicate treatment from the media. It’s not politically effective outside an arena like the Dope simply to say that it’s trolling to mention that Farrakhan was there in a place of honor.
Maybe MPSIMS was the wrong forum, but that was solved by moving it. The tone of the post struck me as juvenile, but that’s hardly unique among politically-charged posts. The failure to return to the post I leave to the mods to evaluate.
The OP has been here for 13 years and has a posting history of starting many, many non-political threads, in addition to the occasional foray into Trumpville. Poor reasoning, yes. Troll, no.
Agreed. It is not uncommon for some posters to post screeds they don’t return to. There is no requirement they do so, nor should there be. A rant is a rant, however inflammatory. It needn’t turn into a debate.
Simple; it’s right wing. On the SDMB like everywhere else there’s a huge double standard favoring the political right. Right wingers can and do regularly post in ways that would get an infraction for a non right winger.
Lol. I guess you don’t frequent any of the other forums where insults directed at Republicans, conservatives, etc. are quite common. Assuming that’s what you mean by the “truth.”
I have no earthly idea where you’re getting this nonsense. Especially considering all the whining we get from conservatives over the years that this place is biased towards the left. (Which is bullshit as well)
