> It's not so much about being wrong as it is, why bring it here. It's an abuse of us
> writing "off-topic". If you're passionate about religion or politics great, there are
> lots of boards out there to talk all you want on. Why here. We don't want drama here.
Perhaps. But a troll will troll no matter what. They get off on twisting others up. They will use baiting arguments and phrases such as 'I have more information here that would make you cry'. Their end game is to piss you off. Thats it. You are pissed they 'win'. Then that comic comes into play as others do not realize they are being baited. I have several good examples of recent posts that do exactly that here (I am sure you do as well). I read them and deliberately did not respond. For to do so feeds the troll.
You give them any sort of satisfaction at any point and they will come back forever to get more. That is 'their fun'. The rest of us can burn in hell for all they care. They are having fun. They then hide behind 'its free speech' as if that somehow shields them from being a jerk.
I propose you are going to have to be arbitrary on how you do things. Basically it pisses you off or you think the 'fun is done'. Lock the thread. They reopen with a secondary thread warn them. They keep it up just kickban them for a few days... I pick the word arbitrary very deliberately. As unless you can come up with a very exact set of rules you will always have those who want to push it. Such as what happened with the nudity ban. You will have those trying to worm their way around the rules just to continue to troll.
Honestly the looney bin is one of the few web boards I read anymore. The trolling on the other ones was too much. The looney bin you at least know who tend to do it as the audience is fairly small and I can ignore it.
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