Yesterday, a man who will not be named was trying to start a flame war. I responded by telling him that he was trollin'. Today, I was greeted with a message from an admin telling me that by calling the man in question a troll, I had allowed him to accomplish his goal. This is not what I am upset about. I am upset that I got a warning for it. I've read the forum rules, and use of the word, "troll," is never in the rules. What exactly did I do that deserved to get 1/10 of the way to a ban?
Yesterday, a man who will not be named was trying to start a flame war. I responded by telling him that he was trollin'. Today, I was greeted with a message from an admin telling me that by calling the man in question a troll, I had allowed him to accomplish his goal. This is not what I am upset about. I am upset that I got a warning for it. I've read the forum rules, and use of the word, "troll," is never in the rules. What exactly did I do that deserved to get 1/4 of the way to a ban?
You upset the wrong person; that's pretty much it. I'll probably get warned for this, but I really don't care.
Yesterday, a man who will not be named was trying to start a flame war. I responded by telling him that he was trollin'. Today, I was greeted with a message from an admin telling me that by calling the man in question a troll, I had allowed him to accomplish his goal. This is not what I am upset about. I am upset that I got a warning for it. I've read the forum rules, and use of the word, "troll," is never in the rules. What exactly did I do that deserved to get 1/4 of the way to a ban?
Troll calling is against the rule, deal with it, I got warned for it too once.
Troll calling has been made against the rules, since it is useless.
1) Person is troll, you just fed it. If someone is trolling, report them, don't call them a troll. It doesn't help any, just bumps the topic (if it was a troll thread) or gives him attention to keep trolling.
2) Person is not a troll. This makes it completely off topic, and is seen as spam as well.
It also falls under flame baiting. Calling someone who is not a troll would just irritate them, calling someone who is a troll is just helping push it into a flame war, because the troll will respond trying to **** you off.
No matter how you look at it, troll calling is not helpful.
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These, plus it being a problem in the past is why you were warned.
Edit: Also, the warning system is outdated. It is 10=ban.
Troll calling has been made against the rules, since it is useless.
1) Person is troll, you just fed it. If someone is trolling, report them, don't call them a troll. It doesn't help any, just bumps the topic (if it was a troll thread) or gives him attention to keep trolling.
2) Person is not a troll. This makes it completely off topic, and is seen as spam as well.
It also falls under flame baiting. Calling someone who is not a troll would just irritate them, calling someone who is a troll is just helping push it into a flame war, because the troll will respond trying to **** you off.
No matter how you look at it, troll calling is not helpful.
These, plus it being a problem in the past is why you were warned.
Edit: Also, the warning system is outdated. It is 10=ban.
THANK YOU!!! No one else on this topic has been posting anything helpful, however you actually showed the significance between my post and the rules. Everyone else has just been saying, "Troll calling." Thank you for actually being a good moderator.
Yesterday, a man who will not be named was trying to start a flame war. I responded by telling him that he was trollin'. Today, I was greeted with a message from an admin telling me that by calling the man in question a troll, I had allowed him to accomplish his goal. This is not what I am upset about. I am upset that I got a warning for it. I've read the forum rules, and use of the word, "troll," is never in the rules. What exactly did I do that deserved to get 1/10 of the way to a ban?
If you read them carefully you would realize thw rod troll is mentioned and its aginst the rules to call people trolls just report the post and move along
You upset the wrong person; that's pretty much it. I'll probably get warned for this, but I really don't care.
Troll calling is against the rule, deal with it, I got warned for it too once.
Not in the rules, not against the rules.
Yeah, 4 warnings = ban
EDIT: Actually, I'm at 10%, however the rules say that 4 warnings = ban.
Thank you for such an in-depth look at my villainous ways.
Both wrong, those rules are outdated and incomplete, not all mods warn you for it but others do.
I just read the rules. It clearly says 4th warning gets you banned.
I have 5 warnings. Now unless I'm pulling proxies out my ass, then I'm not banned.
1) Person is troll, you just fed it. If someone is trolling, report them, don't call them a troll. It doesn't help any, just bumps the topic (if it was a troll thread) or gives him attention to keep trolling.
2) Person is not a troll. This makes it completely off topic, and is seen as spam as well.
It also falls under flame baiting. Calling someone who is not a troll would just irritate them, calling someone who is a troll is just helping push it into a flame war, because the troll will respond trying to **** you off.
No matter how you look at it, troll calling is not helpful.
These, plus it being a problem in the past is why you were warned.
Edit: Also, the warning system is outdated. It is 10=ban.
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Wouldn't it be awesome if I got banned over this post?
Please take at least 5 seconds to reread. Thank you.
THANK YOU!!! No one else on this topic has been posting anything helpful, however you actually showed the significance between my post and the rules. Everyone else has just been saying, "Troll calling." Thank you for actually being a good moderator.
Same thing here. That green bar down there is already 50%.
Guess I'm just too awesome to be banned.
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If you read them carefully you would realize thw rod troll is mentioned and its aginst the rules to call people trolls just report the post and move along
We're working on it.
I think he meant that Beltir explained WHY troll calling was against the rules, whereas everyone else just said "You were troll calling.
He explained WHY troll calling is against the rules.
Took about 2 posts to answer my query in full.
Maybe I just got lucky?