Intoewsables Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Bertuzzi Babe used to go into Fantasy Hockey leagues that she wasn't a part of and report even the slightest rule infraction. Good thing Straight up Lazy brought the lube. A true hero. Ahh, good times. RIP Straight up Lazy <3 Link to comment
ilduce39 Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 We miss you in mafia ilduce! So much so it hurts Where have you been? Aww.. you faceless letters on a screen are making me feel a feeling. In all honesty though I've been busy (but still creeping around) - saw the MR Mafia threads - had no idea how the Chinese New Years one was working but I'll join up for the next game! Link to comment
Dr.Strangelove Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Aww.. you faceless letters on a screen are making me feel a feeling. In all honesty though I've been busy (but still creeping around) - saw the MR Mafia threads - had no idea how the Chinese New Years one was working but I'll join up for the next game! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment
g_bassi13 Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 I doubt it, she's from my hometown about 8 hours north of y'all. Whatever happened to her? Didnt even notice she was gone? She was banned. First her mod status was taken away. Then she was banned altogether. Link to comment
drummer4now Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 A short explanation if Trolls are jerks in real life, and yes I know this isn't exactly a educational source but they do a good job explaining things. Link to comment
The Bookie Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 How to eat an Internet troll http://blog.sfgate.c...internet-troll/ Here’s something you surely already suspected but which is nevertheless sort of nice to have validated by science: Internet trolls? Those nasty, scabrous, hate-spitting folk who spend their sunlight-deprived days taunting, baiting and venomizing all over the Interweb’s anonymous comments sections in response to, well, just about about any article, column, video, photo gallery, product review or heartfelt tale of love and woe from the here to Gawker to Amazon, Car & Driver to Knitter’s World to the NYT, including but certainly not limited to the very Slate article which discusses the general cruelty and stupidity of trolls itself? Turns out they really are awful people. Sociopathic, sadistic, narcissistic, cruel by nature, highly unpleasant to be around. They love to cause pain. They delight in ruining the beautiful. The more pure and integrity-filled something is, the more they enjoy corrupting it. So says a new psychology study. Also, they’re antisocial. Poor dressers. Ungainly. Hairy in all the wrong places. Smell like soggy asparagus and old toenails. I’m just guessing. Did you already suspect as much? Of course you did. It takes exactly 28 seconds of reading the comments beneath, say, any Gawker article ever posted to feel deeply soiled and sad for the state of modern humanity, and for the under-30 Millennial set in particular. And trolling’s even more vicious alter-ego, Internet bullying, has resulted in far uglier consequences, like depression and suicide. Trolling and vicious, look-at-me commenting in general has, to many, reached epidemic proportions, and some major news sites are shutting off comments entirely to try and tamp down the bile. (Amusingly enough, the very Slate article that discusses the troll study is rife, nay rife with all sorts of snarky feedback, nasty comments and demeaning trollspeak both casual and foul, thus verifying another quality you already suspected about trolls: their complete lack of a sense of irony). But the personality of trolls wasn’t really the question, was it? The real question is: whence do these warped beings come? Does the Internet spawn these toxic personalities, or merely exacerbate their puerile nature, give it outlet and volume? Which came first: the sadist, or the anonymous forum into which the sadist is born? Here’s a pleasant fact: Just like in real life, the nasty, small-minded people who get off on trolling make up a very small fraction of Internet commenters as a whole, and an even smaller fraction of Internet users overall (more than 41 percent of Internet users never post in the comments sections in the first place). Then again, it’s my experience that countless are the commenters who probably don’t consider themselves true trolls at all, who think they’re merely engaging in snarky and “clever” bantering as they casually rip apart the subject of a given article (like this one), or the writer, or the host site, or the weather, or each other, everyone apparently so bored out of their minds that engaging in a flame war about, say, stemware brands, or dog breeds, or Google buses, or which Bluetooth headphones are best is cause for endless, low-level viciousness and disgust disguised as “discussion.” Ah, but causality is elusive, is it not? There’s simply no way know if the Net has made the culture of hatred exponentially worse, or uglier, or of any different a nice/mean ratio than your average slightly obnoxious cocktail party. There’s no way to measure today’s cruel jerk quotient against that of even 20 years ago. It sure seems like there’s more odium in the world, but that’s probably just a factor of the Net’s megaphone effect. What we can measure a bit more accurately, is the positive flipside. Because here’s the good news: While the Net is an irresistible playground for sadists much in the way a public garden is an irresistible place for thugs to stomp on the flowers, the Internet also enables and encourages millions of already nice, already thoughtful, already reasonably happy people to get, well, even nicer. Do you notice? Do you notice enough? Countless are the wondrous tales of support, love, rallying cry, outpouring of grief and adoration, sympathy and financial help in response to all sorts of need, from disaster relief to upstart project. Entire Internet-enabled industries have been emerged as a result of this timeless humanistic urge: Kickstarter, Indiegogo, RocketHub and all the other crowdfunding success stories, for example, are born of this innate to help out, to discover causes, products and ideas you wouldn’t otherwise. According to Forbes, the U.S. leads the world in crowdfunding, estimated to have hit around $5 billion in 2013. The Guardian reports that visitors to Kickstarter alone pledged upwards of $480 million to various projects in 2013, up from $319 million in 2012. That’s a lot of anti-troll positivism. It’s easy to forget, isn’t it? The number of people who are cheering someone on, helping a friend’s business, participating in an online charity or sending a blast of blessing, kindness, or love far outnumber – not to mention wildly outclass – the trolls. Forget it at your peril. It’s like junk food. It’s like reality TV. It’s like like old media, in which the loudest, most bilious talking heads still get the most airtime. It’s like politics, where the hysterical wails and alarmist stunts of the Ted Cruz’s and Rand Pauls of the world will always grab the headlines. It takes a bit of effort to remember that intelligence and integrity still outweigh the trashy and the dumb. Mostly. Sometimes. You hope. Link to comment
Mr.DirtyDangles Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 the easiest and most logical solution.... Link to comment
mau5trap Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Bertuzzi Babe used to go into Fantasy Hockey leagues that she wasn't a part of and report even the slightest rule infraction. Good thing Straight up Lazy brought the lube. A true hero. Yeesh. For some reason she always nice to me, she taught me a while back how to some fancy stuff with pictures and hypertext's (all of which I've forgotten now lol), so I can't be hating too much. But I totally understand the animosity towards her on behalf of other CDC members. Can you elaborate "slightest rule infraction" with some examples? And what did Straight Up Lazy do/say? I'm hoping you can show me the thread lel Link to comment
Caboose Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Yeesh. For some reason she always nice to me, she taught me a while back how to some fancy stuff with pictures and hypertext's (all of which I've forgotten now lol), so I can't be hating too much. But I totally understand the animosity towards her on behalf of other CDC members. Can you elaborate "slightest rule infraction" with some examples? And what did Straight Up Lazy do/say? I'm hoping you can show me the thread lel She reported swear filter bypasses. Link to comment
Intoewsables Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 She reported swear filter bypasses. Please tell me you have the screenshots of those PMs between Straight up Lazy and BB. Link to comment
kodos Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 when did what happen? i don't know who kodos is beyond vague familiarity. i get him The Bookie and Horny Manatee mixed up all the time, not sure why. i just see him saying all this weird, rude stuff in status updates all the time, for no apparent reason. i just assume he's a drunk, tbh well, i'd rather be a weird, rude drunk than a sad, pretentious wanker Link to comment
GLASSJAW Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 hic adjective adjective hic Link to comment
kodos Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 hic adjective adjective hic a well thought out and incisive retort Link to comment
GLASSJAW Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 a well thought out and incisive retort calling someone pretentious is silly and juvenile (and ironic, in most cases), calling someone sad is presumptuous (and in this case completely without justification), calling someone a wanker is, for me, totally meaningless nothin to respond to. just some adjectives tossed around for their own rudeness. as i said earlier in the thread, pretty much par for the course Link to comment
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