JAG posted at 8:56AM Sat, 02 January 2021 - #4409096

INTERNET TROLL: "In Internet slang, a troll is a person who starts flame wars or intentionally upsets people on the Internet by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community."

I'm not the troll here, despite the gang-trashing I always receive. I began this thread with a perfectly clear and non-debatable statement regarding a highly relevant issue with Poser 12. Not one single member who has posted thus far on this thread has added to this material in a positive fashion. All of you have either contradicted me, posted nonsensical and off-topic garbage, or...or you've intentionally twisted what I said and tried to goad me about it. By definition all of YOU are the trolls. I said originally I was not going to "feed" the trolls but I despise having my words twisted and having my posts hijacked and used to send people to off-site locations to download things. So I've let you all goad me into responses. So be it. I'll debate you all till they lock the thread again. I'll not stand by and allow my thread to be hijacked yet again by trolls.

As for talking to myself. That statement makes no factual sense. If no one was reading this thread, none of you would be taunting me in it. Clearly the fact that you've read it and posted means it's being read. So I'm not talking to myself am I? You people all act like you're brilliant debaters with far more intellect that you actually possess and when you butt heads with someone like me it becomes all too obvious. There's a term for it. Dunning-Kruger. You're all so intellectually impaired that you can't comprehend just how impaired you really are. I know I'm not a genius. I admit I'm stupid on many topics and subjects. I don't talk about things I can't prove or back up. Admitting your ignorance is key to avoiding its use.

elena_c posted at 8:07PM Thu, 31 December 2020 - #4409064

Don't feed the troll. Let it talk to itself (even though it said it wouldn't). It's entertaining as hell as it is.

Lol. You've just described yourself perfectly. Intentionally upsetting people? Bingo. You're a troll.

You opened this thread stating your opinion (a debatable opinion) while also stating you won't discuss your opinion.That's not debating, since you refused to engage at the outset. That's trolling. You're trolling. You're a troll.

You also state that you pride yourself on your debating skills because you (paraphrasing) use all the tools. You make ad hominem attacks ("intellectually impaired etc"). You refuse to stay on the subjective level, you intentionally drag things onto the emotional level, and what's worse, you think that is somehow a cunning debating technique, and that you earn points by browbeating your conversational partners. Newsflash, it's not. It's bullying, and trolling. You're a troll.

You also state that you are intrinsically convinced that you're always right (again, paraphrasing, can't be arsed to look up your exact quote) thereby prohibiting debate, because you refuse upfront to take other opinions onboard. Again, that's trolling. You're trolling. You're a troll. See the pattern?

Yeah, you're not talking to yourself, you're right about that. That was nonsensical on my part. My other points still stand. (See? Admitting that the other party has a point, and that you may have stated something that doesn't contribute to the debate. It's not that hard. You should try it sometime.)

And this is all the feeding I'm going to give you, troll, against my better judgement I might add, but I had nothing better to do for the time it took me to write this. Now, excuse me while I get the popcorn to continue watching this shitshow of a thread.