05-04-2017, 04:19 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-04-2017, 04:28 AM by APeacefulWarrior.)
(05-03-2017, 01:52 PM)Coordinate_Apotheosis Wrote: The most appropriate response to this post would be to troll you. But I'll save you to experience, you'll realize one day there seems to be an agenda for what some trolls attack and what they accept.
In large enough numbers moderators aren't necessary, especially on high traffic boards like subreddits or image boards like the Chan's.
Post spiritual metaphysical stuff, five trolls assault your post and no one else is going to deal with it if they know they'll get attacked and trolled.
Seriously, reality isn't so simple, controlling content isn't so hard.
Um... how could you possibly think I haven't been trolled? Anyone who has been online more than, like, a few weeks has probably gotten trolled. And I've been online since the Usenet days. Hell, I've run my own message boards in the past and had to deal with trolls both as a user and as a moderator. I've even gotten my hands dirty from time to time, trolling trolls on Reddit in the past when I saw a need to run them off of a subreddit I liked. (Although I rarely bother with such games any more since it's like playing whac-a-mole, but with more negative energy buildup.)
That does not change one word of what I said. One group of people exercising their right to free speech DOES NOT and CAN NOT infringe on the free speech rights of others. You still remain utterly free to post whatever you like in a forum full of trolls. They just may turn out to be hostile to what you wrote. Once again, the right to free speech does not, in any way, imply a right to a receptive or friendly audience.
The only exception would be if the trolls went beyond verbal trolling and into actual attack activities such as doxxing or hacking. But as long as it's just people posting in a message board, then it is a pure exercise of Speech vs Speech, and that's that. And as an aside, you would be just as free to use their tactics against them. If reclaiming a forum is sufficiently important to you, then form your own brigade and attempt to rebalance the opinions in the forum to be more favorable to your point of view. Speech vs Speech.
Beyond that... I fully agree that many trolls are a-holes. But they have a right to be a-holes, and they are not restricting your rights by being a-holes.