Trolls Are Watching ACP

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Permalink Reply by Db0 on July 8, 2008 at 12:49am

As I said to you before, we'll deal with them when they come.

Btw: The way you say it sounds very fear-mongering you know. What have I said about fear? :P
In any case, moderators (and ones as rude as as occasionally) do not fear the Trolls

Just remember not to feed them ;)

Permalink Reply by Yvette on July 8, 2008 at 1:00am

I'm warning about it so that people can realize they're there and make sure they don't feed them :(

Permalink Reply by Db0 on July 8, 2008 at 1:41am

Heh, righto. Just remember that we've dealt with a few trolls in our time since 2005 where the group first appeared.

We do have quite a "challenging" name ;)

No worries

Permalink Reply by Methis on July 13, 2008 at 1:37pm

About fear? Uhmm.. Be Without Fear? :D

But yeah, trolls shouldn't be too much of a problem, especially since there's moderators around.
We could of course fight them intellectually, but there'd be no point, as they seem rather impregnable to reason and logic... So I guess we'll just get them banned ASAP if they do show up?^^

Permalink Reply by Anath on July 14, 2008 at 11:51pm

Actually we are quite adept at out-trolling trolls and making them GO AWAY instead of banning. Note that the forum has 0 banned members :)

Trolls usually stop when we debunk their statements, throw the burden of evidence on them, and persist in demanding that they back up their statement. Oh yeah, and when we don't overreact like they want but respond rationally. Once they realize they're not getting the reaction they want they usually go away (cough, Brian? cough). Good example of this is the Eugenics thread from the last.fm Black Metal forum. There were a couple ACP'ers in on that one.

I actually find a good troll quite fun. :D

Permalink Reply by Yvette on July 8, 2008 at 11:36am

They're a private group, so either you get invited in or you bluff your way in. It's pretty much the same inane, hateful conservative crap. "Boobs, beer, damn libtards" in just about every post. XD Not much activity. But they do point to different liberal sites or blogs or posts and encourage eachother to attack.

And that's cool db0. :P

Permalink Reply by Anath on July 8, 2008 at 3:33pm

We can take them. :)
Bring it on.

Permalink Reply by LeaT on July 8, 2008 at 3:35pm

FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE!

Seriously though, unless they have something intelligent to say I will most probably ignore them. Sadly most trolls seem to leave their brains at home before they decided to troll.