Specific person issue

[1_particular_person]

One particular person seems to be a troll.

Tempted to make an account named "One Particular Person." Sounds like a character in Piratecat's storyhour.

I didn't do it! Really! I have been framed! I was busy playing pathfinder on a table top game at that time!

 

[Scott DeWar]

RangerWickett, what did you do?

 

[renau1g]

I didn't do it! Really! I have been framed! I was busy playing pathfinder on a table top game at that time!

It wasn't me, it was the one post man

 

[Scott DeWar]

well, at least the one post man is talking d and d, so there for not a spammer.

 

[IronWolf]

I didn't do it! Really! I have been framed! I was busy playing pathfinder on a table top game at that time!

Really? Was One_Particular_Person already taken?

 

[jonesy]

Really? Was One_Particular_Person already taken?

That was my first thought too, but surprisingly no. It's still available.

 

[El Mahdi]

You are saying, then, that there is no way a person can be intentionally annoying.

I don't think he's saying that. Abslolutely somebody can be intentionally annoying. But we can choose whether or not to let it annoy us.

Trust me though, I'm not trying to preach that or anything, especially in a way that says one should do this because I do...since I do let such idiots annoy me far too often. Fortunately I mostly don't respond to them. Now if I could just control my annoyance in the first place, I'd probably be a lot happier...

You are absolving trolls of all responsibility for riling up a message board.

They certainly aren't absolved. I don't think he's trying to say that either. Just because we can and should control our own responses and choose not to be annoyed, doesn't mean that their behavior is okay or should go unchecked by mods.

Recognize that the "pain" response one is feeling isn't "real" pain. Then evaluate the post/situation/behavior from a rational perspective. If it's something that one feels needs to be dealt with, report it, explain in a rational manner, and let the mods decide what to do about it. Then move along...cus' it ain't worth the headache.

 

[Umbran]

IBut we can choose whether or not to let it annoy us.

Whether or not we can choose to let it annoy us - we most certainly can choose how (or if) we publicly express that annoyance.

 

[Bullgrit]

Human beings react to emotional annoyance as though it were physical pain.

Recognize that the "pain" response one is feeling isn't "real" pain. Then evaluate the post/situation/behavior from a rational perspective.

I have never felt annoyance as anything like physical pain. This is psychobabble.

Here on message boards, things that I find most annoying are intellectual dishonesty or logical fallacy, not some emotional tweak.

Bullgrit

 

[TarionzCousin]

The problem with putting people on your ignore list is that you have to read some posts you don't like to determine who goes on it. An easier way is to just find a thread full of opinions you don't like and ignore everyone in that thread.

...like this one, for example.