Poll: Can trolling ever go too far?
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I remember there was a guy at my college who was killed by a forklift in a work accident. His friends set up a memorial page for him... you can guess what happened next.
That was much too far. Mocking those who are mourning their loved ones is just cruel. I tried to encourage people to stop feeding the troll, but you can guess how that went, too.
That was much too far. Mocking those who are mourning their loved ones is just cruel. I tried to encourage people to stop feeding the troll, but you can guess how that went, too.
Soni... chu...?waj9876 said:
OT: If "suicides" isn't an indicator of going too far, nothing is.
Yes, when people are pushed to the point of suicide over trolling then that's when you've come too far.
Well, yeah. I suppose if I see a well-written post expressing a view I wouldn't expect to come from a thoughtful person, I tend to class that as satire unless otherwise indicated. Misspelling can also be used for effect, but it's more common to find someone who has purposely misspelt something in line with popular trolling than to see a concise post saying something stupid.Lightknight said:
I just despise trolling in general. If you get your kicks out of either; A) Insulting people of lower intelligence than you B) Annoying them to no end or C) Just being a dick. You really need to review your life choices. I can deal with B and C but to me A is just the worse. Just because you are smarter than someone doesn't give you a right to be a total dick to them.
Pretty much my sentiments here. The troll never "forces" someone to do anything. The troll has as much power as the trolled gives them.TehCookie said:
If someone offs themselves because some stranger trolled them on the internet then that person was simply a time bomb waiting to happen.
I think it starts to become a problem once they start grouping up together towards a single goal. Take the COD Enlightenment Army. They are a group(or one guy with multiple accounts) on Youtube where all they do is go onto any sort of gameplay video and say something like "Cod was the FPS" and calling others "lesser gamers" for not believing them. Whenever someone corrects one of them like "Wolfenstein was the first FPS," they'll say something like "COD came out in 2003, Wolfenstein came out in 2009, you have been enlightened." No matter what they say, they'll always piss someone off and they'll never go away, like a troll. Honestly, this has been going on for months; I'm surprised no one has done anything about it.
Go ahead and read some of the comments. But beware, they sustain damage to the brain if you do. Like I did.
http://www.youtube.com/user/IntelligentCoDFanboy
Go ahead and read some of the comments. But beware, they sustain damage to the brain if you do. Like I did.
http://www.youtube.com/user/IntelligentCoDFanboy
i was trying to figure out a way to post this reply as to not earn punishment from the thought-nazis that proves my point but its not possible, for it seems that thous threas brought the worst of escapist that ive ever seen.
please learn what trolling is then try making analogies.LollieVanDam said:
Poe's law depends on the ineptitude of the satirist to convey satire and/or the failure on the part of the some viewers to get it even when done well (if all viewers fail to get it the satirist failed to write to the audience).MeChaNiZ3D said:
So it does not impact whether or not it hits Poe's law if we get it and others fail to do so. There's also the opposite side of things where people believe something to be satire that is not. Never underestimate the possibility that the writer is just a person who can't spell or is too impatient to try.