OT: Are there positives in when trolls lurk?

[MyInsatiableOne]

Who's the poster that has a sig mentioning the people on his ignore list? lol The ignore list is so damn dumb. What are we 5?

"Oh I don't hear anything, is that the wind?"

Do some people toss and turn all night thinking wow that Prophet_C is surely some jerk. I'll show him!

"Problem at the office today honey."

"No, that's not it.....it's ...it's....(holds back tear) these d-d-d-d-d-damn posters on realgm. They are just jerks and I wish they'd just leave me alone. I can't take it anymore. I just want everybody to agree with me.....WHY WHY?....I'm going to my room."

lol

Wehhhhhhhh don't post in my threads. Grow a pair dude. I know I'm one of the posters that you don't like. I don't care. I'm not one of the best posters. My posts are brief and I try to make my point quickly. I'm sarcastic and I try to make people laugh. If I think something is stupid and I don't agree with it, I'm going to say so and I expect the same from other people.

I forget who has the ignore list on his sig, but it is pretty lame...very self-righteous, like "look at me, I rise above it all and IGNORE these people"...

Honestly, if anyone here lets ANYTHING said/done on this board affect their real life, they need help!

[TonyMontana]

Wow I was right, you will make a post about anything.

Props brahhh........

But here's my take on this, I think for the most part we all know who the trolls are.
I see a lot of classy Celtic fans on here, which one is the poster above me and Kefa is another one that I think we have mutal respect for one and other, and the same goes for the Lakers board.
I think since last year the mods on this board as well as ours have made both the Cs board and the Lakers board as the best examples of quality you can find on realgm.
BUT......... We all have these so called trolls and newbies that pop up here and there and they seem to give these two boards a bad name.
Yet overall I think as time has gone by in the past couple of years we all know who the resepected posters are on both boards Cs/Lakers.
All I can say is Im on here enjoying my time and I love the rivalry between our two teams, and myself, our mods wont allow it to get ruined by a few idiots, and I can see the same thing on this board as well.

[Prophet_C]

Shut up troll.

[TonyMontana]

Shut up troll.

Right back at you bean boy .......

[Bad-Thoma]

I am on my own ignore list. I can't stand when I post under the influence and have to come back and read it at a later date. Damn, I am such a messageboard flunkie.

Me, personally, I shoot barbs and fire shots over the bow of the SS Troll on occasion but I am used to it because I grew up in a rough section of the internet where they peddle sheep porn on the corner. Life was hard in those days, man. I mean, the porn dealers didn't even provide you with your own barbed wire and rubbing alcohol. We had to fend for ourselves, which wasn't easy, especially with our little 9600 bauds. Hell, I remember back in the summer of '98, a group of internet banditos were spraying our playground with full-duplexed ADSLs with 8-up and 1-down. We were only armed with 56Ks that were lucky to connect at anything faster than 28.8 kbs. Try having a flame war when you can't compete with the sheer firepower of your foe. Of course it isn't easy but you make due, adjust fire and attack with a one shot-one kill mentality.

Moral of the story: Don't waste bandwidth on cracker jacks when it can be better spent downloading freely available porn and running willy-nilly all over the internet.

If the verbal repartee isn't to your liking, though, you can try the "research and post with substance" route. While there will inevitably be some people who just don't like you, they should at least appreciate your contributions. If some Das Celticsbloggen dropout with a T-Rex sized brain and the class of a reverberating, wet fart on a church pew gives you any problems, just dump an intellectual steamer on their noggin and move on.

The internet is a wild, wild world. It's every man for himself (and his collection of porn links.) If someone isn't posting of substance, call them out. Tattoo a pair of tits on their back and treat them like your prison bitch. If they keep on with their whack-ass comments, politely remind them how they squeal like a pig during business time and take them behind the woodshed again. Eventually, through shear repetitiveness, they will finally get the hint that you don't tug on Superman's cape.

Treat the dolts like the dummies that they are. The only people who get upset with intellectual snobbery are the ones who can't follow along. That's a fact. There is nothing wrong with not knowing something. The problem is not knowing and pretending to be an authority by regurgitating group think, worn out platitudes and curdled breast milk. I am telling you, treat a troll like your bitch. You will be amazed by the results.

Seriously, if you allow yourself to be a target, you will be one. Like many things in life, the problem usually starts with ourselves.

Holy **** that was funny, props and props again!