As I recall, she had already been banned when she made that threat. It just put the nail in any discussion about maybe letting her back in after she’d become less batshit crazy.
Just for the recond, from the rules :
All postings and other material on the SDMB are copyrighted by the Reader. Republication of material appearing on the SDMB without express written permission of the Reader is prohibited, except that users retain the right to republish their own work. By posting on this board you grant the Reader and its successors and assigns a nonexclusive irrevocable right to reuse your posting in any manner it or they see fit without notice or compensation to you.
Hazy memories, but I thought she got a temporary banning to cool down after she got so upset, but it became permanent after the threat. She seemed nice most the time, her upsetness seemed out of character to me, and I didn’t think the threat was necessarily credable (though understand the Mods taking zero tollerance with such threats).
Anyway this is all moot, since it sounds that CarnalK’s web site was not a declaration of Trolling and trouble making, so much as an indication of the possibility, which is quite different.
Now that I think about it, you might be right. At least about the temporary part. I disagree pretty vehemently with the rest, but that’s neither here nor there.
Okay, then, you started this thread as an attempt to define what trolling is. Several people have ponied up their definitions of trolling. Your turn.
I actually think my site is pretty good natured for the most part, with a slightly dark humour. I try to point out when someone has come clean or changed.
With all this talk of how “petty” and meanspirited my archive is, I have to say it’s not reflected in the people who actual visit my site and bother to leave comments. Anon or not. Plenty of people who hate the anon community know about it.
My recollection was that you could pretty much set your calendar by the periodic semi meltdowns. not that that description couldn’t fit any number of folks of course.
re: OP - when your quarrel is with something that has been deleted, seems odd to me to make a public thread about it since you can (and have) told folks that disagree w/you “you couldn’t know since you didn’t read the now deleted link”.If you really had a serious question about your post, I’m wondering why you didn’t take it to email to get clarification?
wrt “other warnings” sort of thing I dunno, guess I’d start thinking in terms of “what is my preferred outcome”. To be seen as “righteous” (think Link from Mod Squad) by a few, yet be unable to post, or perhaps cool down for a minute and see if you still are as pissed off.
sometimes walking away allows folks to get their cool back, and get some perspective on things.
I basically accept the definition in first link but think latitude must be given in the Pit. It is the place afterall for confrontation. I also think the post should be taken on content not filtered through the “I know he’s a shit disturber” filter. My post was totally in line IMHO, I was trying to “play ball”. But the mods thought my SDMB links were the exact same as my offsite link.
It’s kind of cute, how desperate CarnalK is to be accepted on the ‘Big Board’.
I will “cool down” I guess wring and only post innocuous things for the near future. Wouldn’t want to put the board’s life at stake or nothing.
Wow, just no class.
Ok, my last one. lol.
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Isn’t using “lol” in the Pit a bannable offense?
:eek:
Crikey, but you like to flirt with disaster, buddy! :dubious:
Well, I was lol’ing at myself so I thought I was on the right side of the border.
Would that be south?
Or are you going South?
Sheesh, I’m even sillier than usual tonight. :rolleyes:
CarnalK has been suspended for 30 days.
TVeblen
Question, and correct me if I’m wrong please, but if I read something on the ‘OMG evil’ site(s), and then post about the subject here, even if no mention is made refering to the source, that’s grounds for a warning or a ban?
Thats a great definition. Being a bit of a newbie I wasn’t familiar with the term. That was explained very clearly and makes perfect sense. I appreciate the way the SDMB is moderated. It makes for a more stable and enjoyable place. I’d comment on CarnalK’s post but I see the best comment has already been made.
Please. We have plenty to take care of here. We don’t give a flip what’s said or done on ‘OMG evil’ sites as long as it isn’t dragged onto our board.
Obviously a few parasitic sites exist for no other reason than to obsess about what Dopers say and do. They seize on anything that might possibly be controversial here, so of course ‘subjects’ may overlap, Maendosa. (Maybe not, as some ‘scandals’ are just manufactured to suit.) We sure as hell don’t look for reasons to warn posters, so we certainly aren’t about to bother with weird detective hunts anywhere.
This isn’t particle physics. If anyone’s pissed at another Doper or how the board is run, use the Pit. That’s what it’s here for. Or e-mail works, if the Pit is too public. If all someone posts about is how wretched the SDMB is, yeah, of course we’ll wonder why the hell he/she is doing it. Same goes for targeting specific posters. Confront them in the Pit about what you don’t like. No stalking, no following 'em around to get in a jab in unrelated threads and other forums. And we won’t tolerate scripted drives to ban posters. “Hey, ‘we’ really hate X (for whatever reason); let’s get 'im banned!”
So, no, we aren’t going to search out where you get ‘inspiration’. Make a habit of making trouble for other posters or the board in general, then yeah, we’re going to notice.
It’s common sense.
Veb
My opinion would be, it would depend on what you lifted from the disfavored site. If you simply picked up an idea you found intriguing, and discussed it here in your own terms, I don’t see why that would be any more offensive than plucking the impetus for a thread or post from any other site.
But if you read, say, a discussion of how to push Doper X into a meltdown for the fun of seeing the resulting trainwreck, and then posted here using one of the techniques touted, yeh, I can see that a good way to get in hot water.
This is just my definitively non-mod/admin/official take on it. Keeping in mind that it would appear the moderators here are aware of the other boards, read them, and would pick up on posting a la Column B.
Oh, well, gosh. I guess it would have been a good idea to see if a mod had commented in between previewing and posting, huh?
:smack: :o
Veb, am I badly off-base?