This thread apparently needs another bump. :person_facepalming:
I sense a lot of unnecessary rudeness and trollish behavior lately, specially with some of the “new” members.
One of my favorite dumb movies of all times 
I’ll probably watch it tonight.
I just love to inflict verbal trauma
And just kick back and bask in the drama
I’ll make a big scene
Then I’ll say something mean
Like ” Why don’t you go cry to your momma !”
I mistreat all my internet friends
Only weaklings try to make amends
’Cause when I make you sad
It won’t make ME feel bad
I am paid well in dark dividends
I may seem like I really don’t care
As I post with a nonchalant air
I’m a sociopath
and I love to feel wrath
Every thread I’m in reeks of despair
So when you see me enter a thread
Does it instantly fill you with dread ?
You can’t stop me , you know
On and on I will go
I’ll be flaming you on your deathbed
Jack, you rhyme like no other. Glad to call you a BLF brother.
BTW, I’ve been thinking about selling my house here in NY and moving down to FL. It’s too damn expensive here for a retired guy! I’d be honored to be a customer of yours if I end up in your neighborhood…
Maybe we need Pedro’s cousins to patrol the threads lol!
“Hell, everybody else does!”
(Tip from a Native: Learn to love sweat and DEET.)
isn’t that a big change? isn’t New York a cooler climate? Florida is hot and muggy? also add the alligators lol!
- Our Gators are friendlier than your Crocs :)
- Taxes are much much lower
- AC is cheaper than heat
- We have fewer truly muggy days than they do cold.
- Last...they change 100 degrees every 6 months...here it changes only 30 degrees (usually) and a 60...we complain like babies. LOL
I love your new poem jack.
Well, maybe a narcissist. Not necessarily a troll.
Trolling is a narcissistic activity… There is apparently no benefit in trolling if you are not narcissistic, so non narcissistic people do not engage in the activity.
Ergo, all trolls are narcissists.
when people get mad, they calm down by shopping and buying from the advertisers, which results in the forum continuing to sell ads to sellers. So trolling is good for the forum in general.
Best comment yet. Or you’re just trolling. I don’t know.
Speaking of trolls! This is how i roll lol!
Uh oh, sounds like a secret was let out… Lol that was a good chuckle, thanks Tarver!
I think in order to honestly call someone an internet troll you have to consider their intent. Someone who causes problems solely with the intent of bothering others or inciting malcontent is a troll. Someone who just has poor social skills and/or engages in narcissistic behavior isn’t really a troll, per se, and could even be suffering from real mental issues as noted above. They’re just not a very nice person.
In practice, however, the distinction probably doesn’t matter very much except that the second category of individual can be helpful/useful on occasion if the rest of us can stand to deal with them.
Perhaps it’s escaped your detection
That my logic is simply perfection
Your ideas are wrong
And it takes you too long
To get over your frequent rejection
Please be silent and let others speak
For the chance you’ll make sense is quite bleak
What someone should do
Is knock sense into you
And contain all the havoc you wreak
I can’t see why you must always share
Your opinions are mostly hot air
I’m afraid , Buttercup
That if your brain blew up
It would not even mess up your hair
This is the slippery slope of tolerance toward others all the while, hoping for a reward. Some people are truly socially deficit, as in having a disorder such as aspergers or other such real issues.
Others are just passive aggressive asses, who like to stir the pot.
I can deal with the first, as I have tolerance for things outside of their control.
I will not deal with the second, as they know better, but choose to participate while stirring the pot. We tend to try and tolerate the second kind in hope of some reward in the form of knowledge or insight, but to me the price of tolerating that personality type is not worth it.
Basically the premise for allowing seemingly smart people to “soft” troll the forum is that there are no nice smart people that will treat us with respect. They are smart enough to not overtly troll, or they would be gone ASAP. Soft trolling is the nice/mean/forget-what-I-said/you -misunderstand-me game that they play…
Toykeeper, TomE and several others blow that premise out of the water for me…
Ditch the disrespectful ones, no matter how smart they may sound…. True smarts have some social ability to get along with others…