You are probably right.  The conversation boards on ESPN for when two teams plays gets pretty nasty and there is pretty much zero moderation on the site.  This is especially true with college football conversations.  There are some that maintain decent conversation there but more than half of the messages are hate messages.

Roma said: lol so we have 20 trolls that voted no?

Well, I voted "no" because there are too few trolls here, in my opinion.

They tend to make this place more entertaining :P

so to be more helpful in this pointless discussion, there are full time trolls and part time trolls, everybody is a part time troll, full time ones just get perma banned or don't come back cause they get bored here after awhile since a lot of people don't take the baits here.

If the thread is pointless, why are you trying to be helpful?

This is the kind of thing I just don't get.

because I'm trolling a nice guy.

I don't see it as trolling, I see it as someone expressing their opinion and point of view.
Which is something we should protect before that also gets taken away under the guise of protecting us!

You don't understand, what you described is actually having an opinion and a discussion, trolling is somebody legitimately trying to fuck with you, which we have a lot of here actually because we do a lot of stealth trolling here, only most are actually funny here.

1Did you consider that maybe I hadn't read the bolded reference post yet?

2And you're ignoring the fact that all it takes is a little understanding to see past that. You also know that I post from a phone mainly, yet you don't say the same for me. I think you're picking on him, and if you want to get into a discussion about spurge, feel free to get crazy, because I'm finding this all pretty insulting to him. Not that you're actually insulting him by saying he can't spell, or isn't trying, but by saying he's shitting up the site. A lot of our forum has been kept alive by this dood....during the periods when there was literally no sales to talk about.

3 Except Carl also used incorrect punctuation three times in just two sentences, and referred to a guideline that said effort should be put into your posts, confirming spurge as being 'in the wrong'.

4. I think you should just try to stick to improving yourself.

5. lol wow. I'm not throwing stones, I'm pointing out your hypocrisy. Furthermore that line is one of the most arrogant self-serving sentences I've read in a while. Who do you think you are? Your typos are not in the same manner? Only someone who was not paying attention (myself, I presume) would make that correlation?

"Also, I'm personally Canadian, and I care about spelling, I think it shows a level of intelligence that, for anyone capable of spelling (yes, I know you are), is an important step towards showing good will and interest in the conversation. It forsters healthy debate."

How does spurge having a hanging 'd' differ from you using made up words? My mind is blown.

Also love the fact that you referred me to your post to tads when your post occurred after my post, as if I'd missed it.

how did kipling put it again


If you can talk with trolls and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Mods - nor lose the common touch,
if neither Fanboys nor loving Loyalists can hurt you,
If all men troll with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving Thread
With sixty words worth of decent Pun
Yours is VGC and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!