2002 Posters' Choice Troll of the Year Awards [accepting nominations]

[Horacio]

all i'm saying is don't bother with posts you don't like. i think your hivemind threads are annoying but you don't see me spamming them like you are doing here.

There is a small difference that maybe you didn't arrive to see, I'll try to explain you it...

Hivemind thread doesn't promote anything. We have our thread (now it's only one at a time, mind you), fully sanctionated by Darkness, Piratecat and Morrus himself, where we speak of our silly things. We are open to anybody who wants to join us, we are friendly with people, we keep a small community inside the big community and we don't try or encourage anybody to do anything.

Now here is a threa dthat proposes a sort of Troll Oscars. To improve the site, let's give an Oscar to the best troll, yeah. And next year you have ten times more trolls, ten times more trollish, in the hope of winning the award. Maybe you don't see it, but your idea encourages trolling in these boards. And since I love these boards and I dislike trolling, I feel concerned. So I post.

If hivemind annoys you, report it to the admins. If you want to post then, do it. But please, don't try to take a martyr attitude here.

 

[tleilaxu]

how would you like it if i came on your hivemind threads and posted "this is annoying this is annoying this isn't MY vision of how ENworld should be?" this thread isn't hurting anyone and I am asking you to just leave it be. You've said what you have to say, now go post on the threads you like and leave this one alone.

 

[Horacio]

how would you like it if i came on your hivemind threads and posted "this is annoying this is annoying this isn't MY vision of how ENworld should be?" this thread isn't hurting anyone and I am asking you to just leave it be. You've said what you have to say, now go post on the threads you like and leave this one alone.

If you come to the hivemind thread (they are not mine, not of anybody, they are only threads), and you say that, I think most people would ignore you and continue his business. And some people would try to convince you that we are a nice groups and try to make you join the fun.

Then, if you repeat it again an again, or go really nasty, maybe some moderator would say you politely to shut up. And then you could shut up or not and face the possible consequences. As I will do if a moderator complains about my posts.

And if I post here again, it's because I'm answering you. I dislike leaving a conversation unfinished, you know...

 

[arwink]

how would you like it if i came on your hivemind threads and posted "this is annoying this is annoying this isn't MY vision of how ENworld should be?" this thread isn't hurting anyone and I am asking you to just leave it be. You've said what you have to say, now go post on the threads you like and leave this one alone.

People do do that. Doesn't really bother me, personally.

For my money, the best this year has been the Should DnD be more American. I hesitate to call that a troll though, even if it was the original intention. I do make a destinction between those that are purely done to get a reaction, and those done by community members who stick around for the fun.

And that was a fun thread

 

[Darkness]

Really wish people would not participate in this thread. It will just encourage more trolling.

Right. Hence, I nominated Clay - who does something really neat.

 

[Dinkeldog]

Tleilax, I don't like the best troll thing. If you want to start coming up with lists of best rules interpretation thread, best house rule thread, and have people vote on them, I'd probably be more interested. As for trolls, though, I think your D&D should be more American example is only noticeable because of its timing. It's why film companies release all their "good" Oscar-worthy movies after Thanksgiving.

 

[Piratecat]

Let me quash this idea before anyone gets too excited. Trolls at their worst are offensive, annoying, and rude. Very occasionally, trolls become performance art, actually funny and bringing the community together. The problem, though, is that the latter accounts for 1% of the former, and ecouraging anyone to troll at all means you have to wade through the 99% to get to the 1%.

So uh uh, no thanks, not here. If you see something funny, appreciate it for what it is, but don't return here to celebrate and remember it. I don't want anyone getting the idea that this is a contest they should strive to enter.

Make sense?

 

[ColonelHardisson]

I understand the reasoning, PC, but, and I mean no offense, there has been at least one "officially sanctioned" troll in the past. The thing is, trolling is an extremely subjective thing. What you, or the other moderators, might have regarded as performance art or as unifying for the community may not have seemed that way to others. I guess what I mean is that, while there have been very funny, very intelligent trolls, I think they were as disruptive at times as some of the more nasty ones. What I'm getting at is that new members, or people who come here looking for info, often got suckered in by both kinds of trolls, and left either feeling frustrated or left out of what seemed one big "in-joke." I suppose what I'm trying to get at is that even the trolls we like have caused trouble, and not the lighthearted kind.

I thought I had a point. Sorry; don't mean to offend anyone. I was just thinking out loud...

 

[Piratecat]

Yup, CH, that's probably true. But I'm not sure what it has to do with this thread. *grin*

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Yup, CH, that's probably true. But I'm not sure what it has to do with this thread. *grin*

Yeah, I know. I've had this cold forever, and it seems like I tend to ramble because of it. I actually had a point that related to the thread, but I simply forgot it halfway through posting.