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Title: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: Josephus on August 24, 2016, 07:32:59 PM
Thankfully we have no trolls here.


http://time.com/4457110/internet-trolls/?xid=homepage
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: CountDeMoney on August 24, 2016, 07:38:38 PM
QuoteA 2014 study published in the psychology journal Personality and Individual Differences found that the approximately 5% of Internet users who self-identified as trolls scored extremely high in the dark tetrad of personality traits: narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism and, especially, sadism.

"Machiavellianism" is the easiest and most obvious hint that someone has never read Machiavelli.
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: 11B4V on August 24, 2016, 07:39:04 PM
Ask Raz 
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: CountDeMoney on August 24, 2016, 08:18:41 PM
QuoteEditor's Note: An earlier version of this story included a reference to Asperger's Syndrome in an inappropriate context. It has been removed.

:lol:
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: LaCroix on August 24, 2016, 08:26:53 PM
QuoteOnce it was a geek with lofty ideals about the free flow of information. Now, if you need help improving your upload speeds the web is eager to help with technical details, but if you tell it you're struggling with depression it will try to goad you into killing yourself.

I really doubt the internet was ever a place where only lofty ideals were posted and trolling rarely occurred. the author seems to project what he wishes the internet was rather than what it actually was
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: Ed Anger on August 24, 2016, 08:33:14 PM
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FwNlg03g.jpg&hash=8ca15ef0b363f7ae7e3251173adfffa39988f624)

I'm having fun.
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: CountDeMoney on August 24, 2016, 08:34:10 PM
Quote from: LaCroix on August 24, 2016, 08:26:53 PM
but if you tell it you're struggling with depression it will try to goad you into killing yourself.

People have been telling jumpers to jump since the invention of the 2nd story.
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: alfred russel on August 24, 2016, 08:36:55 PM
Is the bigger problem trolls, or people that start new threads for every alarmist op ed or news article that gets posted, with comment other than a single line about how we are doomed?
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: CountDeMoney on August 24, 2016, 08:38:08 PM
You should have your sockpuppet answer that.
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: Razgovory on August 24, 2016, 08:41:33 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on August 24, 2016, 07:39:04 PM
Ask Raz

I have read Machiavelli: The Prince, the Discourses and a play he wrote about the devil taking a wife.  I also know the MacDonald triad, and it's bullshit.
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: Ed Anger on August 24, 2016, 08:43:13 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 24, 2016, 08:41:33 PM
the MacDonald triad,

Chicken McNuggets, the McRib and a Shamrock shake.
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: alfred russel on August 24, 2016, 08:48:00 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 24, 2016, 08:38:08 PM
You should have your sockpuppet answer that.

It was a rhetorical question, no one needs to answer.
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: CountDeMoney on August 24, 2016, 08:48:58 PM
Way to stay focused.  Good job.
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: Josephus on August 24, 2016, 08:49:41 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on August 24, 2016, 08:36:55 PM
Is the bigger problem trolls, or people that start new threads for every alarmist op ed or news article that gets posted, with comment other than a single line about how we are doomed?


:huh:
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: 11B4V on August 24, 2016, 09:00:50 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 24, 2016, 08:43:13 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 24, 2016, 08:41:33 PM
the MacDonald triad,

Chicken McNuggets, the McRib and a Shamrock shake.

Fucking skippy. Nailed it.
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: Razgovory on August 24, 2016, 09:01:00 PM
Also, did Time just discover the Internet?  I know weekly magazines are a little late on the news, but this is 20 years late.
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: Razgovory on August 24, 2016, 09:03:46 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 24, 2016, 08:43:13 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 24, 2016, 08:41:33 PM
the MacDonald triad,

Chicken McNuggets, the McRib and a Shamrock shake.

Actually I was wrong, the article talks about the Dark Tetrad.  The MacDonald Triad is about fire starting, bed wetting and killing small animals.  It's suppose to indicate a person will become a serial killer.
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: CountDeMoney on August 24, 2016, 09:05:42 PM
Arby's still does their Shake of the Month thingy.  Orange Cream for August.  It'll make you cum.

And stupid Chik-Fil-A, cancelling their banana cream pie shakes.  Real bananas, and real chunks of pie crust.  And that shit came down from Corporate, the same assclowns that close shit on Sundays and hate fags.  So that's your three strikes right there.
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: Ed Anger on August 24, 2016, 09:15:56 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 24, 2016, 09:05:42 PM
Arby's still does their Shake of the Month thingy.  Orange Cream for August.  It'll make you cum.

And stupid Chik-Fil-A, cancelling their banana cream pie shakes.  Real bananas, and real chunks of pie crust.  And that shit came down from Corporate, the same assclowns that close shit on Sundays and hate fags.  So that's your three strikes right there.

I'm still coming down from the banana pudding milkshake sugar high from years ago.
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: alfred russel on August 24, 2016, 09:28:12 PM
 :lol: I looked up the nutrition...the small banana pudding milkshake has 780 calories and 104g of sugar.

The american heart association recommends no more than 37.5g of sugar a day.

http://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/chick-fil-a/banana-pudding-milkshake-(small)

http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/much-sugar-should-someone-consume-day-9919.html
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: Ed Anger on August 24, 2016, 09:37:16 PM
Tasty, tasty DIABEETUS.  :licklips:
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: 11B4V on August 24, 2016, 10:59:45 PM
MAH FUCKIN HEART
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: CountDeMoney on August 24, 2016, 11:20:53 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on August 24, 2016, 09:28:12 PM
:lol: I looked up the nutrition...the small banana pudding milkshake has 780 calories and 104g of sugar.

The american heart association recommends no more than 37.5g of sugar a day.

Pfft, they have an agenda.
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: Valmy on August 25, 2016, 02:53:27 PM
Yeah any place on the internet you let the public in un-moderated will quickly become a cesspool. Fortunately our benevolent Languish mods keep us safe.

But I remember this being true in the early 90s on the old Prodigy message boards.
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: Malthus on August 25, 2016, 03:18:45 PM
Quote from: Valmy on August 25, 2016, 02:53:27 PM
Yeah any place on the internet you let the public in un-moderated will quickly become a cesspool. Fortunately our benevolent Languish mods keep us safe.

We are kept safe by our fiercely exclusive membership.  :P
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 25, 2016, 04:21:12 PM
Exclusionary.
Title: Re: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet
Post by: DontSayBanana on August 25, 2016, 05:09:38 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 24, 2016, 08:43:13 PM
Chicken McNuggets, the McRib and a Shamrock shake.

Of those, I only consider one something that a sensible human should even consider ingesting, and that's the Shamrock Shake.