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How do you feel about the one who can not be named?
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How do you feel about the one who can not be named?
He's a bloody menace and needs stamping out
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He's a bit annoying but I don't really care
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I feel quite indifferent to it all
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While I don't necessarily approve, it doesn't bother me at all
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While I don't necessarily approve, I find it a little funny
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It's all a bit of fun and mildly amusing
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I think it's bloody funny!
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I really don't know who we're talking about
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Total Votes : 44

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Big_Bird



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...

PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:23 am    Post subject: How do you feel about the one who can not be named? Reply with quote

Are you so bothered by the transient troll? Many of you will know the troll I mean, the one who gets banned and returns again and again to fill our inboxes with delightful trash talk, and colour up the threads with mischievous nonsense.

Some people seem really vexed by it, other's (while not approving) don't give a toss while others even find it amusing. Which one are you? And is it really worth changing things at Dave's to keep this one troll out?

My opinion: it doesn't bother me that much. I can delete the nonsense, or skim past it. Sometimes it's a little amusing too. I'm patient enough to wait a few hours for the mods to mop up after him, and I'm satisfied with how the mods have been dealing with him.
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djsmnc



Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe

PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't get spam from any trolls. Ha! What a ridiculous sentence that was...
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periwinkle



Joined: 08 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Voldemort is on this board?
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Czarjorge



Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I, too, immediately thought of Voldemort.
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Big_Bird



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...

PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

periwinkle wrote:
Voldemort is on this board?


Yes, I was playing about with that a bit. Cool Well spotted.

There have been calls for the mods to do something about our own little Voldemort (who just like Harry Potter's nemisis, keeps coming back after he is dead) but I wonder if increased restrictions are really worth it, for the trivial nuisance he is (IMO of course).
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Bramble



Joined: 26 Jan 2007
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I voted, "While I don't necessarily approve, I find it a little funny."

I think the mods are handling this situation pretty well, but I don't think they're looking at the larger issue ... the fact that this site attracts the lowest common denominator because the TOS haven't been enforced consistently for years and years. The thing is, no one really takes this particular troll seriously�but the mods seem to have granted seniority rights to other posters who�ve engaged in the most despicable behaviour imaginable. The worst assholes are allowed to set the tone of just about every discussion around here, and the vilest comments are allowed to stand�apparently because the mods really like the people who made them. Or maybe they just don�t like the victims very much.

BTW, are we actually not allowed to name the troll in question? Or is it just that he has too many names to keep up with?
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Qinella



Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib

PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bramble wrote:
The worst assholes are allowed to set the tone of just about every discussion around here, and the vilest comments are allowed to stand�apparently because the mods really like the people who made them. Or maybe they just don�t like the victims very much.


Well, at least you're doing your part to raise the standard of decency, eh.
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Big_Bird



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bramble wrote:

BTW, are we actually not allowed to name the troll in question? Or is it just that he has too many names to keep up with?


Good question. A bit of both, I reckon. Smile
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