(06-01-2019 10:02 AM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote: (05-30-2019 01:58 PM)cubucks Wrote: I know many on here hate these posts, this was a good one!
I laughed long time.
The best thread on Page 1 of the Realignment Board is this one. All the tears it caused was pure gold!
There are many kinds of trolls and they have a wide variety of impact.
There are the idiot trolls who break down sincere conversation with persistent inane and irrelevant remarks.
There are the rude trolls who merely want to destroy board decorum.
There are vicious trolls who want to attack particular people or ideas.
There are humorous trolls who like the energizer bunny come in banging a drum and wearing pink to remind people about reality and to bust up group think.
There are scholarly trolls who attack using humor, truth, fiction, or parody in order to provoke thought. These have a quality that approaches that of a Twain or Will Rogers, or in a more modern sense, a Gallagher. They both entertain, dispel, and educate.
The job of moderation is not to get rid of all trolls or all trolling, just the rude, distracting, and pernicious ones.
Yep, some of these threads have been gold. We'll put them to a vote tomorrow.