Ignoring trolls is the only way to make them go away

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Spot17
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25 May 2007, 1:03 pm

I hate to say it, but you guys are giving this guy exactly what he wants, which is attention. Don't reply to his posts, don't even read his posts. He will get bored and go somewhere else.

blackthorne
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25 May 2007, 1:06 pm

I like having him here. It's like we have an inferior little jester to throw things at for our enjoyment

poopylungstuffing
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25 May 2007, 1:07 pm

can't he be banned from the site?
I have seen other people get blocked.
Why is it taking so long on this guy?

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25 May 2007, 1:45 pm

It's kind of fun to reply to his posts. He's amusing. The key is just to not get angry.

beautifulspam
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25 May 2007, 2:04 pm

who exactly are we talking about?

Vegasadelphia
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25 May 2007, 2:17 pm

beautifulspam wrote:

who exactly are we talking about?

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Bart21
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25 May 2007, 2:43 pm

He wil get banned soon.
In the meanwhile we can just make fun of him.

Kosmonaut
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25 May 2007, 2:43 pm

i thought we were talking about shadexi, but you are right girl, i am ignoring him now.

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25 May 2007, 2:43 pm

Has anyone sent a complaint to the moderators about this?

Vegasadelphia
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25 May 2007, 3:13 pm

girl7000 wrote:

Has anyone sent a complaint to the moderators about this?

How is that possible? I have never seen a way to flag a person or a thread or post, or contact anyone except the Contact Us button on the left.

Spot17
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25 May 2007, 3:22 pm

Kosmonaut wrote:

i thought we were talking about shadexi, but you are right girl, i am ignoring him now.

lol

shadexiii
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25 May 2007, 4:17 pm

Spot17 wrote:

I hate to say it, but you guys are giving this guy exactly what he wants, which is attention. Don't reply to his posts, don't even read his posts. He will get bored and go somewhere else.

Some spammers / trolls just won't go away. Period. So I try to play with them a bit. They're nice playthings for a short while. Then they get boring so I move on.

Kosmonaut wrote:

i thought we were talking about shadexi, but you are right girl, i am ignoring him now.

Cute.

Unfortunately, your sub-par ability to handle discussions with those that disagree with you isn't a sign of me trolling, it is your own shortcoming. That's ok, go ahead and block me, that way you'll stop crying about it. :wink:

In before "hah i cnt se wat u said im ignorin u"

Michaelmas
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25 May 2007, 4:38 pm

Sorry if this is old news:

to complain to the Moderators, follow the advice in the sticky thread "Moderator Attention" in the W P Net Discussion forum in the Administration group of fora.

For something on the latest outbreak see same forum, thread entitled [moved] Calandar.

God Bless Calandar.

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Grim
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25 May 2007, 4:56 pm

...Is not this thread also giving him attention..

shadexiii
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25 May 2007, 4:59 pm

Grim wrote:

...Is not this thread also giving him attention..

Yes, which is an example of why this problem is not so easily solved. It would take every member of this website ignoring every post made by such trolls, which just isn't possible. New people join every day, it isn't always easy to know at first if someone is or isn't a troll, and so on. Ignoring is the ideal solution, but the problem is in that it is idealistic. It is far from reachable.

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25 May 2007, 5:57 pm

I sent a PM to Alex as soon as I saw it happening last night.....

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