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11-27-2009 13:13 <Inner Stickler> oh hey, look. Trolls in the cake or pie thread.
11-27-2009 13:14 <Zuul> I think Cancer was trying to post pad to chat and got bored.
11-27-2009 13:15 <Zuul> Or sobered up.
11-27-2009 13:15 <Inner Stickler> (ban their asses. Do eet, you know you want to.)
11-27-2009 13:17 <Zuul> I actually find it amusing to not even bother with socks that couldn't stick around long enough to post enough to actually do anything.
WELCOME!
You needed the seventh post for the final touch eh?
Oh hey look. Troll in the Pit. At least you found the right place to take your shits.
Yup, cause you're just an innocent newbie whose choice of username is completely coincidental.
Be less obvious, nonny.
As dead as this place is, you almost have to welcome anyone you suspect of being a troll.
Why?
Because this isn't life and death stuff, this is a messageboard. If they end up doing trollish things, throw them in the cage. Not everything requires dramatics, condemnation, and hand wringing. I promise.
Exactly, it's just a message board, it doesn't need to be the center of attention for fighting and arguing. So I agree, we don't need any people registering under socks and padding posts because all they want to do is troll chat for someone they have a grudge with.Quote:
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This is one of the things that Mellophant gets wrong and we need to face that fact. Over on the 'Raffe, this would be a silly little "oh ha ha, look at that username" thing and there would be some lulz and silliness and if he got especially obnoxious he'd go in the Box. I suppose on the Dope The New Cancer would be permabanned along with any other accounts he might have.
I was ignoring it because I've been perfectly aware that a) this wasn't actually a troll so much as someone who thought the name was funny but had no investment in the community and b) there was no reason to respond. Of course, if Cancer does start trolling I'm going to be mighty unimpressed, but if we count "usernames that are allusions to past board memes" as trolling I think we've expanded the definition beyond all reason.
The drama and kvetching and damage to the site isn't done by socks. It's the reactions. Chilling out and not being on the defensive all the time would do us all a lot of good. Sometimes, people are silly without being evil.
Now if it turns out I'm wrong and Cancer is actually doing anything jerkish, then I've got dibs on tossing him in the Cage. But kneejerk reactions when your board already has a bit of a reputation for histrionics and a low population aren't necessarily a good idea.
I'm not even entirely opposed to trolls and trolling. It's just this particular shtick of being an obvious sock and then opening up an "I'm just an innocent new person, why aren't the dumbos playing nice?" has been done. Repeatedly.
IOW, I'd welcome it if it were actually, you know, funny. Rather than just beating a horse that died a while ago.
I don't see why we need to wait for them to do jerkish things. Delete the accounts now and save the headache later.
Yeah, it's been done, but the reason they do it is because we always get so het up about it. Zuul has exactly the right idea, IMO. Let's not always be the board that goes http://smileydatabase.com/s/329.gif. It really sucks the fun out of the place. :dumbo:Quote:
Originally posted by Taumpy
Hi, Cancer! Any relation to The New Black? Why don't you pull up a chair and sit a while?
Do you consider the New Chemo your enemy?
Are you someone we use to know?
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Originally posted by What Exit?
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Are you someone we use to know?
Don't feel bad. I got the same damn type of welcome that you did. My problem was that I was critical of the TWO MONSTERS THAT KILLED DUMBO!!! OH NOES!!!
So now, apparently, I'm a nonny, despite not having checked that site in many months. I guess if you're new, you're a nonny or at least a suspect. No I'm not a nonny, no I don't post at Giraffe's site and no I was never very prolific on the Dope but hey, that MUST add up to being a troll with no purpose other than to DESTROY THE BOARD!!!
Here's a news flash: even if I WAS a troll, I wouldn't be able to destroy one damn thing here. Myrna and Exy are doing that all by themselves just nicely.
And now back to lurking!
:D Funniest thing is that it's probably true.Quote:
Originally posted by L D Ablo
Is the New Cancer anything like the New Coke? Because I hated that stuff :(
But...old Coke was good. Cancer is bad. So New Cancer is good, right?
My first thought you were a joke sock. Have fun with it. Some poster are of course going to react negatively to any socks.Quote:
Originally posted by The New Cancer
I'm glad Zuul is not :cage: them all.
There's a store in South Jakarta called "Cancer's Entertainment." I have no idea what goes on inside.
Fun for people born during July?Quote:
Originally posted by Hatshepsut
Okay, this is one of those examples, apparently, of some kind of in-joke, or something that only people "in the know" will get.
A new poster who's immediately assumed to be a sock, and a reference to some other message board.
I know this message board evolved out of the SDMB (we can talk about evolution here, right?), but not everybody here was either a religious reader or a prolific poster on the SDMB.
When I see all this in-jokey stuff that I have no idea what it means, that's the kind of thing that makes me think I'm on the wrong message board here.
I was originally gonna ask you all to enlighten me about what tipped you off, and what The New Cancer was alluding to with that username. But that's just more of the same.
ETA: Whoops! Didn't see your last sentence until I already posted this. Sorry! I'll leave it anyway, for the idly curious.
You aren't on the wrong message board, but I think The New Cancer might be! :)
Long story short: After much drama here earlier in the year, a couple of posters were referred to (I don't even remember by who) as "the cancer that is killing Domebo." Actually, I think I would have forgotten about the incident altogether, except that one of the posters being referred to has been jokingly using the quote as a signature. Fast forward to the last couple weeks, more drama, those posters were suspended/temporarily banned, lo and behold someone registered as The New Cancer. (The assumption is that it's a sock, which seems to be a reasonable one to me.) Funny, huh? I know my sides are splitting. Then The New Chemo came along, presumably as an antidote. Which I have to admit, I DID find kind of amusing.
So...anyway, it's not something that was brought from the SDMB, but it is a joke that goes back a ways from the earlier days of this board. I hope this stuff doesn't dissuade you from participating, Raymond! It's just silliness anyway. :)