Comments on: Troll-Off! Vote now for your favourite troll.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:52:52 +0000

Oops, I’m sorry. I used the anonymous pseudonym for the abuse thread and then it was automatically filled in when I posted next. I won’t make the mistake again.

By: Troll-Off: Poll results — Hoyden About Town

Troll-Off: Poll results — Hoyden About Town — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:34:27 +0000

[...] Many thanks to those who voted in our inaugural Troll-Off competition. [...]

By: Helen

Helen — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:51:06 +0000

Lauredhel@30: Thanks!

By: Liam

Liam — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:05:10 +0000

It’s not just you. He didn’t have much of an idea about the prostate gland either.

By: tigtog

tigtog — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:24:38 +0000

@ Liam: I am in total awe of that trainwreck thread. Is it just me or did he actually seem to not even understand what "morbidity" means?

By: fuckpoliteness

fuckpoliteness — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:18:38 +0000

@ Hendo…weeeelll…yes and no. For the w/s it works well (apart from the distressing search terms), for blog commenting it means it sometimes gets read as if I’m all for spitting in stranger’s faces or something which is of course not quite I mean by it. Admittedly that’s usually trolls misunderstanding it, so wevs.

Liam, the new hard drive for the vast amount of bullshit? Bwahahah.

I’m pretty new to the blogosphere, so I get that sometimes I’ll go at a troll when it’s best to leave them be. But sometimes, especially with the performance art trolls, it’s just too much fun to resist dancing around them going Nya Nya Ne Nyah Nyah!

By: hendo

hendo — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:57:54 +0000

@fuckpoliteness: that was an excellent description.

PS, have been wanting to say this for ages, but your username is the BEST EVER. No, really. Best ever in the entire internets.

By: Mindy

Mindy — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:40:17 +0000

Liam, I’m stealing this. This is mine now. Mine. Mine I tell you.

I’m utterly in awe of your ability, once you’ve been shown up to be wrong, to get progressively wronger, until the wrongness piles up into an avalanche of wrong.

I also liked how he misspelt your name, wow that must have really hurt.

By: Liam

Liam — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:22:00 +0000

Here's an illustration of such a trainwreck thread, which is also tangentially related to the discussion on the other thread about percentages vs. ratios. (Warning: contains me behaving very badly)

By: Liam

Liam — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:43:58 +0000

Yep. And then it’s never actually the troll who drops all pretence at good manners, responds with five paragraphs of filth, causing the trainwreck I-hope-you-die-in-a-fire flame-on. It’s always someone who’s usually the image of proper etiquette.
It’s because they bring out the worst behaviour of everyone that the performance artists are such great value.