How to say “I am a trock” without saying “I am a trock”
Creamy biscuits, folks, don’t engage the troll here.
Over:under 10 hours to the banhammer.
Sigh. Every year after the soil is first tilled, we find new rocks. They’ve always been there, lurking beneath the surface. Now we have to toss them out of the field.
It was clearly a reference to this thread, which was just linked to.
And yes, you did have some asshole responses there.
Now, I personally think that if you aren’t familiar with conventions on this message board, then you might not understand that there is some expectation of civility on the About This Message Board part of the board. Especially when you are bringing an issue to others’ attention and asking for help. Just note that while only a moderator can take action, any issue brought there frequently receives input from the rest of the community, and often those comments help influence the outcome. (Not always, of course; many times the moderators just use their own judgement and/or enforce the rules as written without community input.)
If you want to speak only to moderators, you can use the flag function on your original post (you click the … at the bottom of the post and then click the flag icon). Doing so will send a private message to the moderators who handle that forum, and someone can help you without involving the rest of the community.
I know some people have accused you of being a troll, and maybe you are one, but I also see you trying to be reasonable sometimes so I figured I might try to help you out a bit.
Thank you
I wasnt aware that a thread to a moderator would recieve input
Threads go to everybody. To address particular people, private messages work best.
To build on that, this is the Pit. It’s not a place for warm welcomes. I wouldn’t take anything said here too much to heart (unless the post is yellow, which means that it’s from a mod who is speaking in their official capacity).
I apologize for my reply, I thought you were singling me out
I am actually a long time lurker. I dont know how to use the mechanics of the board very well
Which is it: long time lurker, or doesn’t know the basics of how this board (or message boards in general) function? Knows what the word trock means, but not that posts in a message board go to everyone? Come on.
What? All of those. Except knowing that all the posts are visible to everyone. Of course I know that
Yes, and my understanding is that when you flag a post, it sends a private message that goes to all of the moderators of the forum that the post is in, and one of them should reply to you in a private message. That’s why I suggested that for this sort of thing, it’s best to flag the original post in that thread, because then it would have alerted the moderators about the thread itself, and helped explain what you were asking about.
I’m probably putting more effort into helping an accused troll in the Pit than I’ve been anywhere else on this board before. What the fuck is wrong with me?
Meh, the world’s a rough place, periodic flashes of excessive empathy to the unworthy are a most benign side effect, be glad!
We agree that there’s a problem and we’re looking into it.
I am familiar with your troll experiences. I am not a troll
Stop it, you are triggering some very minor and petty PTSD over here. 
I wager fifty quatloos that he is untrainable and five hundred quatloos that the newcomer will have to be destroyed.
Long time lurker my ass.