that will never happen

And why does the thread get derailed? That's a rhetorical question :thumbsup

Because somebody takes the troll's bait, gets pissed and responds seriously. Then it usually snowballs, with others taking sides either because they see the troll's game and join in the trolling or try to defend your completely and utterly useless effort of discussing with a troll, a pointless battle which you lost the moment you replied seriously.

The REAL question you should be asking yourself is: why do YOU care so much what some anonymous stranger you will most likely never meet is saying in some internet forum?

Does it make ANY difference whatsoever in your life that somebody you don't know thinks the Reptile people from Orion's belt are running the government and want to enslave humanity to harness their organs to make muffins? (They do)

Or whatever other hot-topic du jour the trolls will pick? Now it was the Boston bombing, next time will probably be that old stand-by, religion. Or whatever the trolls see that gets people mad and replying.

But rest assured, it WILL happen again. And again. And again ad nauseum.

This is why banning anyone that replies to a troll seriously would imho work. It would give that person a time-out to reassess and collect their shit. If they start a thread bitching about a troll then I'm sorry but my pity reservoir is empty.

http://i.imgur.com/2xwQwjG.jpg

You can take it as troll bait all you want, the fact is these people genuinely believe in this crap.

Not only that; "speak now or forever hold your peace". If you don't refute or debunk the shit these puppets are putting out there, blame only yourself when we have anyone in power who believes in some theory that holds no evidence to back itself.

Imagine someone who is a devout Christian or Muslim in power?

Oh wait a second.........

A new security system that will make it very difficult for a troll to get away is coming soon. I had a call on this on Tuesday and one of the gfy sponsors is providing us their technology to integrate.

Ill get back to you tomorrow, I was in SF for gigse and on my phone only, hard to respond to such big email while on the road. Dont give them hope, their days are limited.

A lot of gfy members are breathtakingly fucking stupid.

Are there people in real life who believe all kinds of retarded bullshit? Oh my you don't say really! That's not new or likely to change any time soon. Or ever.

Do the trolls that continuously come here shoot the fish in a barrel that you are believe whatever hot-button topic (religion/gun control/circumcision are old stand-byes) they're trolling the fuck out of you with? 99.9% of the time, they don't.

And ultimately, it doesn't make a difference.

You're making the mistake of considering the online chat you have with some anonymous asshole on a forum the same as if he was somebody in real life, able to influence real events.

Newsflash: he/she don't.

YOU are giving them that power by getting all mad and replying like if convincing them that AWMAGERDS your point of view is the correct one and come on how can anyone SAY those horrible things and AWMAGERDS! Playing right into their hands.

Now let me ask you this: are you active politically with your local government? When was the last time you went to a municipal meeting? Do you know the names of your local government officials? Have you emailed them about topics that preoccupy you? No?

But arguing with some trolls on a porn webmaster forum will bring about political change and stop nutcases from running the world :winkwink:

If you seriously think real-world change is gonna come out of this place well, let me put some pillows on the floor so I don't hurt myself when I fall off this chair laughing my ass off.

http://i.imgur.com/Jbw9v.gif

I had similar thoughts when I visited the forum after a gap of many months.

banish all the mCweenies :2 cents:

I enjoy your response, atleast you put forward a substantial arguement rather than trying to throw a bucket of nonsensical crap at people.

I'll probably enjoy a small debate with you more than I would laughing and joking at the aforementioned loons, and others who are in this industry but seem to lack critical thinking skills.

First I'd ask you, is that healthy? My ideal troll would be to get as many views as possible, with as many people backing me up as possible, and with as little response as possible.

If that "troll" is nonsensical and perhaps touches a nerve or inspires false belief, would that be healthy?

Healthy is a pretty relative term.

Yes I am active in my locality, always have been. Fund raising, protesting (if needed) Mayor, MP, Whatever, and discussed things with them. Oh know! I must be Illuminatus.

Never underestimate the power of stupidity.

Say what you want about trolling and posting conspiracy theories, there is a sad fact that people will believe without looking for their own evidence. There are also people who take things out of context.

Thank you :thumbsup

The troll's whole point, his raison d'être, isn't to convince anyone of whatever "cause" they picked to troll with.

99.9% of the time they don't believe one iota of whatever they're "promoting" because that would defeat the purpose of the troll, which is to piss people off. Plain and simple.

The more people get angry AWMAGERDS YUOS SO WRANG SO STOOPID BAN HEEM then the more successful the troll is, ergo the more he/she is gonna keep on doing it.

If they do indeed believe the "cause", then they're not trolls but crazy people. Nevertheless, the same rules apply. Trolls and attention-seeking crazies NEED an audience. If nobody pays attention then they move on. They HAVE to.

No audience = no reason to stick around.

True. And sure, there are people in this forum that share those views and will let anyone know if given the chance.

But it's usually pretty easy to discern a troll from your average tin-foil wearing paranoid. The best you can hope to do with the tin-foil crowd is to present your arguments in a calm, organized and logical manner and never, under any circumstances, get angry.

If somebody believes the government is out to get them by implanting mind-control nanobots in the population by using water fluoridation and you hope to talk them into seeing they might be mistaken well, I wish you good luck and may whatever Deity you may or may not believe in have mercy on your hypothetical soul.

And as has been my point, we're talking about a porn webmaster forum here. Not exactly what you'd call a hot-bed of socio-political change :pimp

http://i.imgur.com/kGe5QK6.jpg

And finally, just because someone thinks the Underground Reptile Illuminati are out to get him doesn't rule out the possibility that someone is after them (YOU'LL NEVER GET ME YOU FUCKS!)

No, Thank you! :thumbsup

I posted something not too dissimilar to the second part not too long ago myself :1orglaugh.

And yes I totally agree, but I still think there should be some form of rebuttal if nonsense is posted :).



Edit: I forgot to mention I agree with your post, but wanted to trim it down it down a bit.

If they took your advice you'd get banned instantly as you've been responding to every troll thread posting the same images over and over.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Not everyone is an affiliate. Myself, I am a programmer. I could have people come and vouch for me or something but affiliates are not the only people in the industry, ya know?

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You know you are about "2 weeks" away from home...

Freeones?

It would involve analyzing frequency of posts and when they occurred to get an estimate of behavior. You might analyze certain sentence structure etc.
Of course IP address too but that's easy to workaround.
Sudden activity after a ban from another nick would reference the nick to other that had been banned.

Using fuzzy logic it wouldn't be too hard to draw a conclusion.

I can solve problems, thank you very much!

It was like this long before i registered so stop the whinging

I wish I was..lol. It is wet and chilly here. I can imagine some nice places two weeks away from here ;p

That's what I'll do, I'll have you vouch for me and then I'll vouch for you :thumbsup

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It seems you missed a tiny little detail: I specifically said "responding seriously" to a troll, and even more to the point, responding in anger.

Go back and let me know which one of those posts:
Didn't mock the troll
Didn't make it clearly abundant that I knew it was a troll thread
Didn't try, by using the infographic, to make others aware of what the troll's aim was

I believe I only engaged one of the trolls once in the thread where it was claiming the picture of the bombing victim with his clothes ripped apart indicated it was a set-up because he wasn't bleeding like a slaughtered cow, and even then I was civil, not AWMAGERD JOO DONNANUTHIN JOO FOOH!!!1!1!

So go ahead and fetch my posts, show me how wrong I am :thumbsup

I admit, you might be totally right God knows the Reptile Illuminati are devious and might have messed with my perception of reality :( so HURRY.

ps: to get all posts I've made click on my username and choose "Find more posts by Fetish Gimp" but hey let's make it easier

Supz nothing personal man, I don't come here enough to know what's going on. I saw a few people complaining about the dick pics, eventually saw one or two examples, and figured that as usual since I don't spend much time here that I was seeing the tip of the iceberg, with the other 9/10 examples buried.

For example I hardly know what Footman5 does.. My limited take is that he's another one of those guys who starts 15 threads a day with a one liner hoping to ruffle feathers. Like uhhhh JohnnyClips... Maybe he's a fake nick of that guy. Seems like the same MO from what I've seen.

Anyway it's GFY man, wild out ;)

He's a whiny little cunt. Don't mind him. :2 cents:

Thank you DWB !

Not to mention it would guys who work together in an office or end up using the same proxy as someone else, and so on. Even TOR uses a set of IPs at any given time.

What would really help is if they can identify the device used to access the site like Facebook and Google does. The lunatics would probably quickly run out of devices to post from.

Theo and Eric (and others) are good people trying to keep a cesspool clean. LOL Good luck to them and any mods who can help, we need a troll-free functioning business-oriented GFY! :)

He looks like he's about to bust out a "trololololo lololo lololo...ha ha ha ha ha"

I agree with Roald, very comic thread ;)

Thing about conspiracy sub forum is most of you guys would give it mad views.

I like GFY and I'll never let trolls or idiots affect my life in any way ;)

That's because like always no one's bumping those threads. They're there, I just perused the first 5 pages of the forum and found many, but few of them had more than 5 replies and are now buried on the back pages, whereas footman's threads are getting bumped constantly from troll-feeders who think it's fun to play poke-the-special-kid.

Disgust indeed.

:disgust

I don't think you need new technology or "industry checks". I probably read more than most people but I find it pretty easy to tell who is a troll and who had a nickname banned previously. Half the time they even admit it.

Most of the people who are called trolls here are 80-90% troll/off topic and 10-20% industry or somewhere thereabouts. So they aren't fully trolls. They just post a lot of off topic stuff all the time.

Maybe it's time to simply say that at least 50% of your posts on the main forum in any given 30 day period have to be industry related or you get the boot under the normal system of bans? I don't give a shit myself but I can see where people get annoyed when half the topics are about politics and conspiracies.

Because I haven't gotten a sponsor paycheck in about 5 years as I am a programmer. And I'm sorry, but how much I make is none of yours or GFY's concern and I and I'm sure lots of people will not feel comfortable providing that information just to be proven as an industry person just because a bunch of whine babies cry about a few trolls and think that 99% of the board is surfers.

I know quite a few of the people you guys call surfers and broke because they troll here and there, and I can tell you that they are industry people and you'd all suck their dicks if you knew the traffic and sales they made... But they don't share that information all because they don't want the superficial "friends" bothering them constantly.

You really think Roald doesn't get bothered 24/7 by people because they know he's with Freeones? I bet you he does, and it probably annoys him. He feels fine letting people know, but others don't.

And this board has declined enough to the point that it's currently not worth that attention or information to verify and would kill this board.

I don't mind a few threads and some healthy debate about it, but it got WAY out of control and was to the point to occupying the majority of the threads on the first page. JohnnyClips was to blame for 95% of it.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh. Socks, no problem. I just dont want to be lumped in to the same category as guys like FootMan5 etc. I hope thats not the case. I try to only troll the trolls.

The same person that started a thread complaining about my pics, also started a thread apologizing, saying it was a good idea so people stop going into the thread.

And just as someone else mentioned. You post a business type thread. It gets a few replies, and goes into the depths of the gfy database never to be seen again.

I dont want to wild out. I want to laugh a little & read some good information. But the obsessive trolls that are here make me wig out sometimes.

Simply by posting in the obvious troll threads bumps them back up to the top and keeps them going, which you've been doing to every one of them. Your point only makes sense if we ignore them altogether and let them die. If guys like johnnyclips get zero response and the attention they are craving, they'll eventually find it pointless to make new threads.

Has it changed? I only registered back in 2010 and I remember having to submit a list of adult websites I own to have my nick activated.

True.

BUT if you choose to answer then do it mockingly, showing the troll you see through its game. It's not simply attention a troll craves, it's getting people pissed off at them.

Go back and check the troll threads I replied to, you'll notice how the trolls very rarely reply back to me, if at all. That's because I'm not getting mad, I'm not sitting in my chair grinding my teeth going "AWMAGAD JOO SO FAKIN' STOOPIDZ HOW CAN JOO SEZ DAT!!1!#@@211!

But why take my word for it?
https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1107470
https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1107705
https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1107693

And the threads that go on longer is because people took the troll's bait.

I agree that the best, ideal way to deal with a troll is to totally and completely ignore it. You're preaching to the choir on that one.

BUT you can also have fun with the troll by mocking it to death. That's the kind of attention trolls HATE. It defeats their purpose.

And after all, as I've stated a couple of previous times already, this is all meaningless internet bullshit.

If you feel the need to respond to the troll, mock him. Make fun of him, show him he has no power over you. The only thing a troll hates more than indifference is ridicule.

We're ephemeral specks of dust in the grand scheme of things, our problems and concerns petty squabbles when compared to the immensity of the universe. Our time on this Earth is brief enough as it is to squander it getting angry at some asshole that's saying something you don't like or agree with on a porn webmaster forum on the internet.

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Instead what should be preoccupying you is the oncoming war with the Reptile Illuminati of the Orion Belt and their master plan to enslave humanity I'LL NEVER BE YOUR LUNCH YOU CLOACA-SUCKING SHITSTAINS

I stopped reading here. If you want to frustrate and anger them and eventually make them stop posting new threads, then don't respond to them, period.

FUCKING damn right! Kick these losers and has beens the fuck outta here.

All I wanna say is thank you :2 cents:

There are real business boards out there.
People have been crying about gfy and the lack of business since day 1. Yet they always keep coming back instead of moving to a business forum.

Then let me ask you, since you've been here since 2002 and are a self-titled "Troll Patrol" avenger, how's that strategy working out? :winkwink:

But you know what, I'll concede your point. It would make things simpler any ways:
ban anyone that replies to a known troll.

In time the regulars will get used to the practice, and newbies who don't read the rules when signing up and reply to a troll would learn when the hammer comes down.

Sure, then trolls will then come to bait newbies into replying and getting them banned, but the regulars would avoid that trap. Oh I'm getting all moist just thinking about it.

I would miss out on the fun of ridiculing the trolls but I don't really mind.

Now it's been simply lovely wasting all this time discussing this pointless subject when in the end, as your own experience should tell you, abso-fuckin'-lutely nothing is going to change as long as people take the troll's bait, and without consequences for doing so, they have, and will YAY :thumbsup

With that I bid you adieu, it's Saturday night and you know what that means

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Great, you saw the cleanup right?

Exactly, which is why I said in my initial response that you'd be one of the first to go since you chose to repetitively bump every troll thread with the same images over and over. Took a while, but looks like you get it now.