Carry on mate. I'm not biting. Too funny ....

Don't need to carry on m8 just posting my views as we are free to as you say just don't see the need to put it like you do that is all,lucky for me i don't use this website much so don't need to worry about you really lol,but just wanted to say good luck to all that use this website in the future should come with a warning when you join. WARNING when posting on this website you may not get the response you want only a sarcastic one LOL look at me now I'm doing it

lol ai - very careless of you. But I'll let my posting record speak for itself - always ready to help and *always* on the look-out for trolls ... lol - this is better than the cricket ....

Your being trolled

M8 please don't bring the cricket in to this post its bad enough in the Ashes post LOL trying to keep away from that one

Why does everyone assume that just because someone is fairly new they are a troll?

This is what p*ssed me off with the other site in addition to that wierdo posting yesterday....

I've been on here several months now and it really does swing like a pendulum. One minute it's "let's all love each other" (my favourite ) the next it's "I know better than you" and the next it's "troll time".

It goes around; it comes around. At the end of the day it's a reflection of life with so many varied human "species" that we will not always see eye to eye.
Yet, as in real life we get over it and survive.

However there was a big difference with the latest episode and one that I have not witnessed before. It was in the way the recent events were handled by the forum Admin and Moderation departments. In their defense I should say "were perceived" to have been handled.

A very large part of the membership did not agree with the actions taken or the methods employed........banning people they thought were innocent, deleting threads seemed to be covering tracks and closing any thread that tried to air the discontentment.

This is not a public site. It is a private enterprise. If we do not like the way it's run then tough, we can go elsewhere. Now, I don't honestly believe that was the intent of the site "bosses" but that is the way it was interpreted and their refusal to communicate seemed to endorse it.

Certainly many, many members have interpreted it that way so have gone to pastures new. As a consequence this site has been degraded. In all likelihood it will again recover but that will take time. In the meantime the fragmentation means so much could be lost that is invaluable especially to new migrant hopefulls.

My part on here has been to try to brighten the day with some humour to cut through those stressful times and I hope I don't offend in doing that. Others are far more important in that they bring so much useful knowledge......but how will that be imparted now ?

I really am deeply, deeply saddened

Please continue, yours (and others) humour has really kept me going the last 13 months

Problem is there seems to be a gang of Trolls on here, some with nice personas others blatant, the nice ones are reporting inocent people to get their kicks and stirring things up. How can the mods know whos who???

Hey maybe your all just one person i've been talking too all this time :scared:

LOL!

No, we are just normal people.

Can I ask, what is a troll and how do you recongise them. Forgive me if this is a silly question

An Internet "troll" is a person who delights in sowing discord on the Internet. He (and it is usually he) tries to start arguments and upset people.

Trolls see Internet communications services as convenient venues for their bizarre game. For some reason, they don't "get" that they are hurting real people. To them, other Internet users are not quite human but are a kind of digital abstraction. As a result, they feel no sorrow whatsoever for the pain they inflict. Indeed, the greater the suffering they cause, the greater their 'achievement' (as they see it). At the moment, the relative anonymity of the net allows trolls to flourish.

Trolls are utterly impervious to criticism (constructive or otherwise). You cannot negotiate with them; you cannot cause them to feel shame or compassion; you cannot reason with them. They cannot be made to feel remorse. For some reason, trolls do not feel they are bound by the rules of courtesy or social responsibility.

Perhaps this sounds inconceivable. You may think, "Surely there is something I can write that will change them." But a true troll can not be changed by mere words.

When not under a bridge they can be found at this sanctitude.......

http://www.trollville.org/

Well said Bix.

And that's precisely why they should be invariably ignored and invariably reported.