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

[tleilaxu]

i've had an idea... but gotta go to work to finish it:

ok... I wasn't suggesting an "official" troll of the year award. More like a people's choice thing. SO, following up on this idea, this thread will be for nominating posts. Please link the post in question. After a while of waiting for submissions, I'll open another thread with a poll in it and all of the linked threads. Just to make all you "trolls are never good" people happy, I'll include a choice which basically says "I don't like any trolls and am against this idea".

So far, here are the nominees:

 

[tleilaxu]

Nominees:

Should DND be more american?
http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33556
Nominated by tleilaxu


Troll Awards
http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=532095#post532095
Nominated by Dragongirl

Alsih0's Posts
nominated by darkness
(please specify a particular thread and provide a link)

Charging for DND
nominated by the Jester
(need link)

Need examples of how DND is evil
http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25192
nominated by BigFreakinGoblinoid

This poll is a bad idea
nominated by Dragongirl, EternalKnight, and Horacio (not sure who should get credit )

 

[tleilaxu]

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

You mean you like to have the last word. HA!

 

[tleilaxu]

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?

Yes, it makes sense, but I for one would like to see some of these posts. For example, I never read that Bugaboo post, and this thread has already done me good by giving me access to that. So I am assuming you are quashing the idea of an "official" troll of the year and am continuing under the impression that a "People's Choice" award is OK.

 

[Eternalknight]

this thread isn't hurting anyone and I am asking you to just leave it be

Sorry to flog a dead horse...

The problem is, if you encourage trolling, it may not hurt anyone now but it may just do so in the future.

 

[tleilaxu]

Sorry to flog a dead horse...

The problem is, if you encourage trolling, it may not hurt anyone now but it may just do so in the future.

anyone else? can't you leave a man in peace?

i'm gonna include an option on the poll for all you folks, so just save it till then.

 

[Eternalknight]

Sorry tleilaxu, but I just wanted to get the point across that encouraging trolling is NOT a Good Thing.

 

[tleilaxu]

the point has been made

 

[Horacio]

Yes, it makes sense, but I for one would like to see some of these posts. For example, I never read that Bugaboo post, and this thread has already done me good by giving me access to that. So I am assuming you are quashing the idea of an "official" troll of the year and am continuing under the impression that a "People's Choice" award is OK.

Wow, and now I nominate you for the Most Creative Interpretation Of A Direct Moderator's Advice Award...

 

[tleilaxu]

I, on the other hand, think a troll complilation is interesting. What is wrong with that. Most people have been amused by a troll at some point or another. I think you are all exaggerating any kind of encouraging influence this poll could possibly have. I am trying to move on in the nominating process and am refraining from responding in any aggressive way. So shoo