Everyone must contribute their wisdom.
The best defense against a troll is no offense ... or defense ... or anything at all except to ignore them. Either try to play as if they aren't there or in lieu of that stop playing entirely. The less energy you feed into the troll, the sooner it withers into a lifeless arid husk and eventually out of all memory.
NEVER RESPOND TO ANYTHING A TROLL SAYS OR DOES.
Things that make surviving Troll-Rushes easier:
- Writing starting sentences in advance
- Eating the souls of your enemies
- Singing "We Shall Overcome"
- Something productive... maybe
- Setting a personal record for fitting Oreos in your mouth
- Enjoy your secret guilty pleasure: Show Tune lip-synch!
Eric — 22 May 2007, 17:35
How about adding your comments for discussion -- I am curious. Also, can you explain why you would troll.
As a troll for past sites and working with groups I will not disclose, this is shitty advice. May I edit it?
Also, Luminar, please take a look at the normal games. You'll find no troll posts from the 6th or later; it's okay to play in the normal games again too, but the trolled games need to come out of the system.
When I said there are things that have been put in place, I wasn't referring to the Members area.
Eric — 07 March 2007, 09:47
haha - no deceit :-) I've made a ton of improvements to the main area to avoid trolling -- stayed up till 4am on the day in question to clean it up as soon as I possibly could. As part of the effort to avoid trolling and help out the good users, the members decided to bring in a bunch of non-members for a week long membership. This was done by the new TSG moderators. This is the reason for the set of clean member games you saw. Also, members are given "invitations" they can use to invite other users that they'd like to see in the member area (that's why you saw the invitation).
I added you to the temporary users, Luminar, since you've been around for awhile and are clearly not a troll :-) Of course the idea is to get longer subscriptions; both because it helps out with the server costs, and because it guarantees good clean games. But no, no deceit or underhanded dealings.
Oh, right.. I see what's going on here. We get invaded by a ton of game-wreckers, nothing is done about it. SUDDENLY, a ton of perfectly un-ruined members games appear out of nowhere in the list and I get an invite to become a member for a "discount". What a coincidence that was!
I'd call this deciet if it wasn't completley transparent. Why exactly are you offering a free service at all if you just want us all to get subscriptions in order to have games that won't be ruined?
Eric — 06 March 2007, 09:15
Yes, I'm hoping it should be somewhat better in the future. However, it's true that "getting angry" at trolls just makes them happy. Sick, abused, puppies that they are.
There are things that have been put in place to try and stem the tide. Hopefully we'll be seeing less from them in the future.
Sure, let's all just sit on our hands while they make the entire site completley unplayable. This is what happens when you adopt a policy of refusing to ban anyone.