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And maybe I should submit the Main.Troll Post page to the cut-list while I'm at it, as it leads to a redirect page.
Essentially the difference is the context or spirit the post was made in. A thumped post may be discussion of something political that gets heated or rude, or it may veer into something that the site wants to not discuss such as paedophilia pandering or that scandal about that gate game thing.
A troll post would be for pure crap. A banned member who wants to go out in a blaze of glory and yell and scream and swear about how wronged they were and they'll just make a sock account. Or someone who clearly does not have a stake in, say, BioWare and how they write their games, they just want to say the most antagonistic, misogynist, racist things they can to get attention.
Currently reading up My Rule Fu Is Stronger Than Yours
"Troll Post" is the output of the "troll crusher" mod tool. It removes all of a user's posts from a topic and replaces them with that message. We use it when thumping someone's posts one at a time would be too time-consuming, or we want to Unperson them. It rarely accompanies anything other than a permanent ban.
Edited by Fighteer "It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
OK. Now I know. I saw someone's posts on the Edit Banned thread from today all thumped, and am thinking if he will be labeled a troll.
What about the Main.Troll Post redirect?
Edited by jameygamer
It's not a redirect. Main/TrollPost doesn't exist; it's just an auto disambig created because Troll Post pages exist in other namespaces (Tropers/ and Laconic/ ). You'll see those anytime Xnamespace/YPagetitle doesn't exist, but Ynamespace/Ypagetitle does. Just a software quirk.
Edited by Theatre_Maven_3695
So when I look at the Edit Banned/Suspended thread, I sometimes see two kinds of comment-hiders. A standard thump/Please See The Rules message, and the Troll Post.
So what's the difference between the two? And how do you get your post labeled a Troll Post?