OpenEuphoria

1. Off Topic: Long-Standing Moratorium on Trolling

• Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Apr 11, 2012
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Forked from Re: Off Topic: English Grammar, Spelling, colloquialisms, etc.

I admire your honesty, but I would like to remind everyone that trolling is a bannable offense on these forums.

I feel that a healthy community on a forum includes lax moderation and a vibrant set of off-topic discussions. This does not include trolling.

3. Re: Off Topic: Long-Standing Moratorium on Trolling

• Posted by useless_ Apr 11, 2012
• 2893 views

MY honesty? Please reparse what i said! I typed a response to your trolling. I called you a troll. Your recent posts seem to serve no point but to get me to make another post to clarify or rebut some absurdity you spout. Just like this one. How else can you possibly interpret what i said as me saying that i am trolling???

useless

5. Re: Off Topic: Long-Standing Moratorium on Trolling

• Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Apr 11, 2012
• 2862 views

Now I understand. Your original sentence was ambiguous.

How ironic then that in one of the quotes you responded to (here : http://openeuphoria.org/forum/m/117961.wc ), the last line of my quote is a recommendation that you stop.

In another quote (here : http://openeuphoria.org/forum/m/117962.wc ) I affirm my agreement with you and make a self-deprecating joke. In the grand scheme of things, this isn't too important. I just wanted to point out that not everything I write is about argument.

If I see something that I believe is inaccurate, or uses flawed logic, then I respond with my point of view. I don't always expect a response, and I'm typically content to leave things there if there is no response. I am not being emotional about any of this, and I'm certainly not attempting to provoke an emotional response from anyone.

A small handful of things that I've dropped, just in this thread and its parent (and for which I feel no response is actually necessary):

Question regarding what previous apology I still owed to you (if any).

Question over whether or not it is NWO or NGO.

Your lack of response to pronounciation changing over time.

You are pronouncing temperature incorrectly.

No counter-argument to my logic regarding cowards.

etc.

Of course, I've chosen not to respond to other statements as well:

mattlewis's point that since he had trouble when reading "your" vs "you're", asking users to correct their typos or misspellings in this case is reasonable (though it sounds like this is more of a minor annoyance to him than a serious problem).

jaygade's point that monetary is misspelled.

What AndyDrummond meant when he choose to leave the question about typos hanging.

Your various examples demonstrating how those speaking in dialect have unintentionally caused frustration.

etc.

The important thing to remember is this: sometimes, when people are debating facts, one party will admit that they're wrong and the other one is correct. Othertimes, it is the other party that admits that they're wrong. Often, neither party is convinced by the other and they end up having to agree to disagree. Every single one of these outcomes is acceptable in my book.

Realistically speaking, the nature of this thread would have generated responses. I considered this an unpleasant side-effect rather than something to be desired. I would have been contented to have this thread have only my single warning addressed to the entire readership of the forum.

Previous to that sentence, I did not interpret anything you have said on this thread as trolling. In fact, it was a big surprise to see it.

In fact, the closest thing that I can think of are your congrats and withdrawal of it, which looked like insults but - even if you had meant them as such - are clearly not an example of trolling. In light of your post to this thread, the concept that you had not realized that those words could be insulting looks a lot more plausible to me.