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[Cthulhu]

What happened to him?

[zchris13]

Wait, who are we talking about?
But oh, yeah. Trolls. Wonderful.  Nice pun back there.

[Phantom]

He made 8 threads, trolled, then I think he got banned.

[Glacial Eidolon]

Trolls, you say? I would worry about goblins and beak dogs more than those silly chasm-dwelling scabs.

In all seriousness, he was a minor inconvenience. He shall be gone from our memories and thoughts by the turn of the next year. Vanished, never to come back...

Unless, that is, he decides to create an alternate account. Armok protect us... but in all honesty, he shall become as one with dust to us. Gone.

[Phantom]

When I turn my flaming mode on he will leave for sure.

[sonerohi]

Trolls, you say? I would worry about goblins and beak dogs more than those silly chasm-dwelling scabs.

In all seriousness, he was a minor inconvenience. He shall be gone from our memories and thoughts by the turn of the next year. Vanished, never to come back...

Unless, that is, he decides to create an alternate account. Armok protect us... but in all honesty, he shall become as one with dust to us. Gone.

Whoah! Never seen you around before. Me likey the avatar.

[Phantom]

I think he just joined.

[Dragooble]

yeah. he posted in my lets play.

[Kagus]

And by the way, Viewtiful-Chris did break the rules.  He made personal attacks on a couple forum members.  I think those were just slip-ups though...

As for post count, yeah.  The quality of posting should be what's considered, not the quantity.  If you rated people simply by post count, I would be the second-most important person here, followed closely by inaluct.  And Toady One himself would only be seen as a few steps above, even though his posts are of course
Beyond Quality.

And that's just F'd up.

[Glacial Eidolon]

Yes, I'm a new face around here.

The avatar does wonders for people noticing me, that is certain.

...I'm so glad I have Photoshop and access to gradient tools.

[Muz]

What boggled my mind was, if he was really trying to troll us, why did he keep it isolated to General Discussion? You would think bogus bug reports and suggestions would be part of a trolls balanced breakfast.

Since he made an intro thread, I'd say he was trying to earn our trust. He did start off insisting that DF was difficult to learn, so it would take a while for him to get to that stage. He seemed more of a long-term troll. Someone who's happier trolling the minds and beliefs of DF fanatics and newbie lovers, than actually sabotaging DF. He wasn't one of those dumb newbie trolls, he was more like an intellectual attacking a religion by pretending to be a potential convert.

[Aqizzar]

That, or he was just a giant jackass who thought demanding a symposium was a good way to introduce himself, took comments about spamming as an insult, and thought the best way to prove his point about the importance of Internet Politics was to gin some up and throw a big pout.

Yes, there are Professional Trolls.  There's also idiots and jerks.  Not every public disturbance is a strategy.

[Jackrabbit]

Agreed.

[Muz]

At times like these, I wish that threads were locked instead of deleted, so we could make a post-mortem

[Glacial Eidolon]

He may have thought he had a strategy, but did he really? Obviously there is split opinions here, but the fact of the matter is he was still caught fairly quickly, rending his strategy void.

So the question we should be asking ourselves more is "Did he think he could get away with it by bending the rules?" I would personally think not. The fact that there are so little trolls on these forums should have alerted him that he would get caught fairly quickly. I can only think (with the amount of forums he started in so little time only aggravating the result) that he simply wanted to cause as much disturbance as possible before going up in flames.

To an extent, it worked. But trolls will be trolls, and because there's so many of them one can only wonder at what makes them think they're so special when trolling occurs so often.