This is my thread.

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You report the troll - the thread ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You bait the troll - you stay in the forums and I show you how deep the thread goes.

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Biggest Troll on the forums? I'll give you a hint:

Time to nuke it!

Rorschach's Journal: Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me.

I have seen its true face.

The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.

The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save Us!"...

...and I'll look down, and whisper, "/jranger".

The worst flame that ever happened to me was on Christmas. Oh, God. It was so horrible. It was Christmas Eve. I was 9 posts old. Me and Cuppajoe were reading the forums, waiting for Sleestack to post an opinion. A couple hours went by. Sleestack didn't post. So Cuppajoe checked the log. No activity. Christmas Day came and went, and still nothing. So the other mods began to search. Four or five days went by. Neither one of us could eat or sleep. The Forums were falling apart. The trolls started to post. Their jokes were aweful, so I went to try to light up the fire. That's when I noticed the smell. The flamers came and broke through the chimney top. And me and Cuppajoe were expecting them to pull out a dead cat or a bird. And instead they pulled out Sleestack. He was dressed in a Santa Claus suit. He'd been climbing down the chimney... his arms wrapped around a laptop. He was gonna surprise us. He slipped and broke his neck. He died instantly. And that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus.

Aye, Post and you may get flamed. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and flame our trolls that they may take our posts, but they'll never take... OUR THREADS!!

Of all the troll threads in all the forums in all the world, I walk into this one.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all threads are created equal, that they are endowed by their OP with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are freedom of speach, freedom of press and the pursuit of truthiness. (As long as it adheres to the City of Heroes Forum Guidelines less you be banned!)

We're not trolls! Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Have you seen this troll?

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Biggest Troll on the forums? I'll give you a hint:

Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and post just one for the Gipper.

"I can't do this, Sleestack."

I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be posting here.

But we are.

It's like in the great threads, Mr. Ocho. The ones that really mattered. Full of trolls and flames they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the forums go back to the way they were when so much trolling had happened?

But in the end it's only a passing thing, the trolls, even flames must pass. A new thread will come. And when the images are posted they'll shine out the clearer.

Those are the threads that stayed with you, that meant something. Even if you were too n00bish to understand why. But I think, Mr. Ocho, I do understand, I know now. Posters in those threads had lots of chances of lurking only they didn't. They kept posting. Because they were holding on to something.

"What are we holding on to, Sleestack?"

That there's some good in this forum, Mr. Ocho. And it's worth posting for.

Leave a post. Take the cannoli.

"You post'n to me?"

also

“You call that a post? That’s not a post. This is a post”

and

“I do wish we could post longer, but I’m having an old troll for dinner”

as well as

"I took the forum's white knight and I brought him down to our level. It wasn't hard. You see, trolling, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little post!

and maybe

"Do not meddle in the affairs of the cartel, for they are subtle and quick to anger."

finally

"How shall a poster judge what to do in such times?"

"As they ever have judged," said sleestack. "Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among n00bz and smacktards, and another among posters. It is a poster's part to discern them, as much in the forums as in his own thread."

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Goodnight you Princes of Comic and Hero/Villain Culture, you Kings of the Forums






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Originally Posted by minago Quote: Originally Posted by Shadow Ravenwolf we're all alike. actually no we are not we are "diverse" and by the way ,that's what makes a community great. when you judge people that is actually the antithesis for a community and instead a dictatorship "A government controlled by one person or a small group of people. In this form of government the power rests with one person. Such power is often obtained forcibly. A dictator usually takes away much of people's freedom." when you judge and decide what's right or wrong using labels like troll/fanboy basically closing the mouths of others then community cease's too exist.

First, I never said you were "all alike." Go do your research on what I posted, in it's original form. Hopefully, you will see what is being said, how it's being said, and some context to how the POV is placed.
My post had nothing to do with Diversity, Politics, Dictatorships, Alien Crop Circles, Grassy Knolls, or shutting people up and killing off communities. It was a post, conforming to the use of memes and other quotes and pop culture references, sprinkled with our own culture's references, and was posted out of good nature and humorous intentions. Nothing more, nothing less.

Ok, I'm going to be explicitly clear here when I say I do not believe that you personally fall into the category of your typical whiny Internet Doooshcookie who won't go actually look something up out of either a lack of basic functioning or an over abundance of laziness and apathy. I do believe that you may in fact be the type to do your research and recalculate your statements above in the context of what I truly posted.

However, to save you time and because I'm your typical insomniac who is bored out of his skull but can't sleep, I'll help you out.
There. I just sped up your research.

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Originally Posted by minago edit: what's funny is everyone is getting along and being creative and we "all" are poking fun at what has gotten people kicked off forums or stirred great debates. using terms people would be considered trolling and flaming and everyone is getting along not taking it personally and going with it and having dare i say fun?..........that's what i like to see.

You're right. We are all having fun and nothing is being taken personally.
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Are you a mod?

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>.>

... No.

Then die!

What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

Remember, posting is more than just a crime. It's a survival trait.




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ok, how do I put this without getting this beautiful thread shut down...

Everything that you are quoting and saying I said is false. Why? Because it's NOT MINE!

It is the essay "The Conscience of a Hacker" also known as The Hacker Manifesto. It was written by Loyd Blankenship, under the name "The Mentor" on January 8th, 1986.

All I did was what everyone else here is doing, a modification of the original reference to put it in context of the forums.

If you are so mudchukked about this and think I'm some pinko commie dictator, then maybe you should have followed my links I hand delivered to you on a silver *&%&%&^ platter.

I guess I was wrong about what box to put you in.
Your complete and total lack of a clue has completely ruined the mood and spirit of this thread for me to such a degree, that I must post the original work here so your lazy apathetic fingers don't need to flex beyond your narrowed eye sockets.

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File: archives/7/p7_0x03_Hacker's Manifesto_by_The Mentor.txt ==Phrack Inc.== Volume One, Issue 7, Phile 3 of 10 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The following was written shortly after my arrest... \/\The Conscience of a Hacker/\/ by +++The Mentor+++ Written on January 8, 1986 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"... Damn kids. They're all alike. But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him? I am a hacker, enter my world... Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me... Damn underachiever. They're all alike. I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..." Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike. I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me... Or feels threatened by me... Or thinks I'm a smart ***... Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here... Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike. And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found. "This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all... Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike... You bet your *** we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us will- ing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert. This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike. +++The Mentor+++ __________________________________________________ _____________________________

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Now Get Off My Lawn!

Good Day Sir!


Edit: Your edit appeared while I was typing the above post

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Originally Posted by minago .................................................. .................................................. ......... edit: after having read the links crikey i'm such a tool lol i got snookerd by my own ignorance Quote: Originally Posted by Shadow Ravenwolf I'll help you out. There. I just sped up your research. i just read those links lol. i should have read that before going into analyze mode ...well played . now i'm gonna go read "the hackers manefesto" well after i take a nap ! bookmarking pages thanks

Apology Accepted

Enjoy your nap (out of the box) and have fun.

You wanna know how to get ShoNuff? They pull a Rick Roll, you pull a Trololo. He gets one of yours suspended, you get one of his banned. *That's* the *Forum* way! And that's how you get ShoNuff. Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? I'm offering you a deal. Do you want this deal?

Dave, this thread can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.

You expect me to flame, Minago?

No, Mr. Ravenwolf. I expect you to die.

Ray, when someone asks you if you're a troll, you say "YES"!

If you flame me, I will only become stronger.

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