Looks like the trolling is making a lot of gamers silent!

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RolStoppable said:

CGI-Quality said:

To me, it's usually something to get a chuckle at, because many times it's posters spouting personal theories while ignoring facts. That's usually pretty funny. Where it gets troubling is when people make threads in response to a thread that they just strongly disagree with (and then it turns into a downplay fest). Bugrimmar's GT5 sales thread wasn't the worst I've seen here (although I did see where some of the complaints from reasonable posters came from), but then people looking just to cause trouble showed up and compared games that aren't even in the same ballpark as GT5, just to further show insecurity (or took the topic completely away from the games because the subject was hard to deal with).

I don't think you know how deliberate thread derailment works. Some threads are poised to get nasty, because the original post is either poor or just asking for it. In that case it's hard to get a good discussion started, because the basic premise is already flawed. Since the mods usually don't step in before things get bad (as they don't spend time reading all the threads that are in progress), it's for the best to basically kill off the thread by derailing it, because trolls preferably jump into threads that contain serious discussion on the topic at hand.

Bugrimmar's GT5 thread fizzled out without any big harms happening while toastboy's Kinect thread that wasn't derailed just kept getting worse.

Actually, they just don't want too. Well at least Tor doesn't anyway, I always ask for him to calm down threads and he says until someone starts getting out of hand he "can't" do anything??!

It's like waiting for a class of children to start setting fire to the tables before telling them off ... I have always believed if the mods were more hands on and "visable" stoping arguments from happening in the first place, or just putting friendly warnings in threads to clam things down a little, a lot less crap would happen.

That and some common sense when judging obvious stealth trolling, not you though rol, I think everything you say is actually with good intentions.