There should be a law against people like the Westboro people who's job is to annoy people at gay funerals and call their lawyers as soon as one of the funeral goers throws a punch. They're baiting people (I use 'baiting' for lack of better word) and it's about time governments see to that. It's like they're trying to pull a profit from trolling.
edited 6th Apr '12 8:35:12 PM by Akagikiba
Of course the U.K. doesn't wanna help us out with that, why would they?
Interestingly, PAX East has a panel tomorrow about trolling and other bastardy behavior in online games.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"If I were there, I'd say I'm looking forward to seeing people trying to troll that.
@ Irene: Well, they aren't really trolls if they point out a breach of conduct on the part off the site.
Adserver has rules, and the rules were broken. Since when is following the rules trolling?
The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.We were following them because the site is allowed to have NSFW content. Google links to NSFW stuff all the time, but is affected by Adserver.
We're not allowed to put the ads on a NSFW page, however.
Something people seemed to not understand.
So no, we weren't breaking any rules. That's why we're figuring out what's going on as is. And I was only answering the earlier question presented on the last page.
Quest 64 threadAnyway
Back to the topic:
Dutch LesbianWait, that's happening in Great Britain?
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.Dude, my calc teacher so SUCKED MY DICK!!!11!11! ;D
ZOMG, like my calc teacher SUX BALLS!!!111!
My son's calc teacher is horrible!!!!!
Truly threats and allegations to be taken with the utmost seriousness.
What he said.
So schools should punish students for what they do outside of school?
The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.I can roll with that.
Though the article is awful vague on what the "Harassment" was.
edited 7th Apr '12 2:44:34 PM by inane242
The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.attacks on teachers' professional ability
ZOMG, like my calc teacher SUX BALLS!!!111!
16% of teachers had faced online insults from parents.
My son's calc teacher is horrible!!!!!
Truly threats and allegations to be taken with the utmost seriousness.
If you truly think its that mild and that one off then you don't know kids from the British school system.
Dutch LesbianAh, so they are somewhat more mendacious and dogged?
But as I said, the article is awful vague.
The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.An example from personal experience?...
<just a quick off topic question> If I may ask, why is your grammar worse in OTC than it is in Yack Fest?</just a quick off topic question>
edited 7th Apr '12 3:00:40 PM by inane242
The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.Hmm.
I remember my mom telling me there was a student that did that to my Dad waaaay back when he was still a Spec. Ed teacher, but things ended up working out ok.
The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.I know of a teacher in my old high school who everyone calls a pedophile, and quite frankly it's so entrenched in the collective memory of the school that it's impossible to know what's true and what isn't. All I know is that girls visibly shrink back when he tries to talk to them in the hallway.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.Relevant article
by Neil Gaiman.
Interesting bit: the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that interference with free speech was "necessary in a democratic society" in order to guarantee the rights of others "to protection from gratuitous insults to their religious feelings."

We don't know if they're a bunch of trolls trying to purify our wiki(not caring about the goal of our site) or if it's people who's concerned about their children(despite the fact that our goal is to not appeal to the children anyway).
As for this topic itself...
Trolling, yeah, sorry, you should be punished for it. The purpose of trolling is to annoy people, basically harming them. Its intent is malicious. So I don't feel sorry for them. This isn't the same as jokingly jabbing at people. That's in good fun. Those are two different concepts entirely.
Quest 64 thread