Bye all you sexy Asurans!Follow

KIN I GIT FREE GEARZ?

See ya', Storm. Was great doing CoP missions with you.

So take it easy in life, and if you feel moving on is the best thing, then I'm happy for you. ^^

Bah don't justify yourself to him Stormy, we all know you are a crack headed version of Garth Brooks addicted to heroine, but we love you anyway. <3

Seriously though, we gonna miss ya bro, and I'm truly glad that a chapter in your life is ending and a new one beginning. And no, I'm not talking about FFXI, I'm talking about a certain psycho *****. Peace :D

*munches on his cookie*

Are you a sorry excuse for a human being who gets his jollies making fun of someone he doesn't even know on a message board? Yep.

Hope this clears things up for ya Spanky:




What is an Internet Troll/ Forum troll?
An "Internet troll" or "Forum Troll" is a person who posts outrageous message to bait people to answer. Forum Troll delights in sowing discord on the forums. A troll is someone who inspires flaming rhetoric, someone who is purposely provoking and pulling people into flaming discussion. Flaming discussions usually end with name calling and a flame war.

A classic CureZone troll is trying to make us believe that he is a skeptic. He is divisive and argumentative with need-to-be-right attitude, "searching for the truth", flaming discussion, and sometimes insulting people or provoking people to insult him. Troll is usually an expert in reusing the same words of its opponents and in turning it against them.

While he tries to present himself as a skeptic looking for truth ... his messages usually sound as if it is the responsibility of other forum members to provide evidence that what forum is all about is legitimate science.

I will give you few examples of classic troll messages & discussion threads:
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
He (and in 90% of cases it is he) tries to start arguments and upset people.

Sometimes, he is skeptical, trying to scare people, trying to plant fear in their hearts. Many curezone trolls are people trying to promote Quackwatch / ratbags agenda.

Sometimes, Internet troll is trying to spin conflicting information, is questioning in an insincere manner, flaming discussion, insulting people, turning people against each other, harassing forum members, ignoring warnings from forum moderators.
Trolling is a form of harassment that can take over a discussion. Well meaning defenders can create chaos by responding to trolls. The best response is to ignore it, or to report a message to a forum moderator. CureZone moderators usually delete troll messages or block trolls. Negative emotions stirred up by trolls leak over into other discussions. Normally affable people can become bitter after reading an angry interchange between a troll and his victims, and this can poison previously friendly interactions between long-time users.

Finally, trolls create a paranoid environment, such that a casual criticism by a new arrival can elicit a ferocious and inappropriate backlash.

When trolls are ignored they step up their attacks, desperately seeking the attention they crave. Their messages become more and more foul, and they post ever more of them. Alternatively, they may protest that their right to free speech is being curtailed. Perhaps the most difficult challenge for a webmaster is deciding whether to take steps against a troll that a few people find entertaining. Some trolls do have a creative spark and have chosen to squander it on being disruptive. There is a certain perverse pleasure in watching some of them. Ultimately, though, the webmaster has to decide if the troll actually cares about putting on a good show for the regular participants, or is simply playing to an audience of one -- himself.
Next time you are on a message board and you see a post by somebody whom you think is a troll, and you feel you must reply, simply write a follow-up message entitled "Troll Alert" and type only this:

The only way to deal with trolls is to limit your reaction and not to respond to rolling messages. It is well known that most people don't read messages that nobody responds to, while 99% of forum visitors first read the longest and the largest threads with the most answers.


Troll Message is an outrageous message posted to a message board, newsgroup or mailing list to bait people to answer.

Hi, my name is theSporkKing. I'm <undisclosed age>, and I have a permanent stick lodged so far up my *** that I can taste the bark. I know people I meet online don't give a **** about me, because I make sure they have no reason to...and I prefer to mirror my real life into my virtual life. I force myself to believe that everyone is not only entitled to my opinion, but required to hear it, too.



Are you bitter because something like this happened to you? What basis do you have to make a statement like this? What reasoning, motive, or drive is there to make you believe that not only is this something that would happen to someone else...but that you would accuse this of happening?



Your comments are honest? How the hell do you know...because you "believe" them to be honest? What the hell is it to you anyways? Why the hell are you so concerned with this situation that you feel a need to not only defend your opinionated answers, but continue to vomit them out?



Frankly, Sporkperson, you are entirely tied up with listening to the sound of your own voice, which is sad. Just like every other jerkoff that thinks they are the end-all with opinions and facts, you are just clinging to some false reality that someone gives a flying f*ck about you. The bottom line is, no one does. And that is why you project your angst onto a virtual bulletin where there are no restrictions, no boundries, and very little consequence. You're weak, ill-minded, and confused...you seem to think this is an appropriate outlet for whatever real-life issues you have...and you project that upon other people, just like an abusive parent does to their children, or a power-hungry teacher on a student. In the end, no matter how perfect you convince yourself you are, in the eyes of everyone else you are just a weak, selfish, childish boy/girl acting out your own pitiful existence through a "safe" outlet.

Edited, Fri Mar 3 14:23:40 2006 by Ryneguy

{Hmmm.}

Well, I don't really know Storm or Spork, but Storm seems cool, and it seems Spork has a few clinical self-defeating disorders. If his confidence isn't low enough for him to develop suicidal tendencies, he should really consider it. The world may be better off...

BTW, Spork, what's your character's name so I can /blist you?

See ya around Storm, it was fun hanging out with you (and fighting too :P)

See ya storm, take care in real life, glad knowing you. =)

It has been a great pleasure playing with you Stormico. Best of wishes IRL.

/goodbye to one of Asuras greatest BLMs.

Did Stormico sell his account? I could have sworn I saw him in Aht Urgan this weekend.

He left but has returned, I no longer control his account.