Re: Old Games For The Win

JAB wrote:

On 30/03/2025 11:42, .../v]andrak|≡... wrote:

JAB wrote:

On 29/03/2025 14:44, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Trolling in old Usenet was a real art. These days many people will
just burst into a forum (on Usenet or off), say somethign wildly
inappropriate, and call it a day. But the Trolls of Usenet often put
effort into their art, saying/just/ enough to make you think they
were seriously wishing a discussion while still managing to aggravate
nearly everyone in the newsgroup.

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Very much so, trolling in general now is very much low grade and often gets no more creative than, no that's your mum that is. The art of trolling is to slowly reel people in and the don't realise it's happened until to late.
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The meaning of troll has also change so now people will call someone a troll when they aren't but instead just obnoxious. Another one that wasn't uncommon on the World of Tanks forum, merely disagreeing with someone could get you labelled a troll. The worst thing was there was a moderator who basically went along with that and seemed to think that it was disruptive (their words not mine) if you wouldn't allow people to state their opinions, however ridiculous, unchallenged. They seem to not understand what a forum was. Then again they also believed they had a spirit guide called Jesus of Nazareth.

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Isn't this kind of off-topic?  I come here and pay my hard-earned money to read about games and PC systems.
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 May I suggest you send a letter of compliant to Spalls as he deals with these issues.

I just think you've made a demon out of a mole hill.  I am here to talk about games, strategic, rpg, action.  You call me a troll but that was a reflex to some rudeness I viewed in here along the way.  People going out of their way to ignore me, tell me I don't deserve to be here etc. Can you really point to my posts in this thread and call them trolls?  I cross-posted to talk.bizarre because one of my friends there is frustrated that he buys games and then soon feels that they suck.
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