Gnizmo on 24 June 2008
| dib8rman said: @Gnizmo Thats where responsibility comes in to play, conversations take at least two people, assumption is the birth place of what is incorrect in this world. The mod or the intial poster or someone else should at least ask for an explanation. If no response at all, then leave it be and the moderator should put the person on warning - if the user continues to explain but; (and I hate quoting myself:) "The explanation doesn't even have to be based on fact, or have evidence - as long as their is an explanation that is outside the realm of the initial posts attitude and is explaining the post then that is not trolling." It only seems subjective if your the person who can only see subjective points. Grey is a term for the lazy who don't want to spend enough time to understand where someone is coming from. |
That opens it up a lot to easy trolling. If you want to have the "explain it away logically," rule I can whip any board of my choosing into a frenzy once or twice a week and never have anyone question why at the end. So is repeated use of that defense stealth trolling? What if it gets mixed in with a reasonable posts once and a while to keep the mods from being too suspicious? The responsibility to communicate effectively the first time falls directly on the user. The world is only black and white if you are colorblind to grey. Just because it isn't obvious that someone is trolling does not make the trolling any less disruptive.
