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[chaoticag]

The main problem I have with trolls is that you can't defeat them. If nobody responds to the troll, the troll claims victory in posting what he wants and getting away with it. If people respond to the troll, the troll claims victory by getting people to respond. If the troll gets banned, the troll can allege the mod of censorship and claim victory. If the troll doesn't get banned, the troll can continue what he does and claim victory.

The problem is that victory is meaningless unless you can be defeated...unless you CAN lose. I don't think I ever seen a troll done that yet.

Don't think of it from the troll's prespective: if the troll arrives, nobody responds to him, and then gets banned then we win. If we win, he loses no matter what he says because he fails to disrupt the forums.

[Cheeetar]

I really don't see the use of locking this, but since people requested it...