Thread Killers? (One Sentence Answers)

disagree

 

Fighter A is a bum

 

Without sounding confrontational or disrespectful, l don't see the necessity to start a whole thread about "posting edicate". Regardless of what a person has to offer in a discussion, there is still the element of free speech and while sometimes I wish I could revoke that right from certain individuals, its just as easy to ignore.

 

Just a tip.. The best way to get rid of a troll is to starve them. Constructing a thread asking a troll to change his behavior is feeding them.

 

I must have missed the solution part of it in this post. I see no such thing.

I might agree with you in theory, but you're always going to have that element here. Not in ALL forums, I've noticed, but this is a boxing forum, inhabited by a lot of males, many young, some teenagers. We all know what trouble a lot of them like to start. Unless the mods decide not to tolerate that kind of thing (hah), we're stuck with it as is.


Or just have me continually post in threads. THAT'S the real thread killer, and a much more centralized target.

 

About six or seven years ago, I used to get hammered and use this forum as a venting outlet for my frustrations. Nothing better than randomly telling a know-it-all that he's full of ****, even if he's dead on balls right. Don't know if that was trolling, but it sure felt good back then. Today, this is just a way to pass time at work and catch up on commentary with all the fights I don't watch, and as I get older the more I tend to miss.

BTW, unless I am blind, it looks like they got rid of the lounge. Haven't been here much over the past year. That's a shame that was a great place to hang out and talk about everything from business, politics, music, other sports, ***, etc.etc.etc.. I used to frequent the lounge a lot back in the day and remember when john Thomas, Dopelganger and myself would have avatars containing naked women. ahhhh.. The good old days.

 

I did always like the avatars you guys had. Funny how such a simple thing makes a forum more interesting.

 

Incidentally, ( and now that I am on a roll) I don't know why so many rules and restrictions were put on this place. This is a forum frequented primarily by young to middle aged men who enjoy watching a contact sport. Posting risque pictures, using foul language and engaging in other conversational edicate is natural with the territory. I suspect it had to do with certain individuals constantly whining and complaining about the fact that they felt it was "indecent" and that children sometimes log onto these forums.. My counter argument with that, is PARENTS need to monitor what sites their kids are visiting.. The internet is a public forum and an outlet for free speech and expression.. The rest of us shouldn't have been made to suffer for someone's distaste in the elements. If you don't like it, go somewhere else and put a block on your computer for certain sites.

 

We sure did. I got warned a few times for some of the ones I was posting. We had some pretty good trolls back in the day too, ie. Revolver, 2smart4u, Moral man, and countless others. Some good arguments and personal battles that got heated as well.

 

Wise words. Attention is what trolls seek. Thankfully,a lot seem to have vanished in recent times.

 

Exactly. Not clicking on their threads, ignoring their replies and completely bypassing them altogether, will make the average troll disappear in a matter of a few days. The only Reason Red rooster continues to stick around, is because people opt to argue with him.. I admit that I still post on his threads, but mainly to respond to the comments of other people on there, and not so much him.. Starting a thread asking a troll to monitor his behavior is like ringing the freakin' dinner bell.

 

Unfortunately we do still see a lot of troll-feeding here. People really can't help themselves, they just have to argue with the trolls. Not sure what it is that goes through their heads telling them that is a good idea, but they cannot stay away from the trap.