A Troll Community
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24 Aug 2010, 06:22
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Journals
After reading the article about "I.D.I.O.T.S" I though about leaving apart my troll side for a second and write something serious for a moment.
I must say I found this article as interesting as useless (sadly).
I have read this site for years now and joined some time ago just to search for some players in a dying Spanish scene. My first topics were serious, I tried to reply politely to most things or just leave my opinion about this game and the things that were being changed... or better forced.. but thats a different story.
After some time and looking at my own comments, I just surrender and realised I was just another troll in this community, insulting players that I don't know or flaming guys for no real reason but hey thats what I got myself from players that didn't know me at all.
Everyone here gets flamed, everyone. You will get flame if you are unknown or known, if you are 14 years old or 35.
If your account is recent you will be remembered each time you post as if you are a busted player or an ex cheater with his new account.
You get flame for searching team and you get flame if you try to speak serious about anything.
If you ask me, the problem is sometimes just the "age" and from this base comes the rest.
About crossfire and reading Killerboy's comments in the "I.D.I.O.T.S" articles I must agree, journals have become more than pathetics, I see journals of players asking a mate to join ventrilo, posting a 2 year old yotube video, a photo of a german player being called nazi, a 3 line journal telling everyone to fuck off or a journal insulting and entire country, racism etc.
There's no real control over any of this, we get reposts daily of players searching team again and again and cheaters are subject apart... same lack of control for them.
Even Gandhi will become a "troll" in this jungle of nonsense comments and flame.
This is not a defense to all the trolls in this community just a reflexion saying I prefer to act as a troll than to take serious anything in this website and realise the lack of content and interesting things crossfire has to offer to anyone with a minimum brain and education in my opinion due to the lack of control and decent admins.
Have a nice day
and tbh i just visit crossfire to have fun on the slide
for example majesty...
he must have been fallen on his head
Not so clever
It's from my friend Baggiez, we share a hate/love relationship.
You shy homosexual!
":D"
EDIT: he also nerd
gtfo with the catalan flag and the spanish flag
how is your new account troll?
but at least people should show some creativity, posting troll faces all over the place for weeks like our friend Mr. Majesty does, it's plain boring and I can't believe he obviously still thinks its funny. *yawn*
Resign and maybe you'll be my bitch in the near future!
2nd. Try clicking on my trollfaces next time!
3rd. Atleast I don't suck a Polish dick!
So there are "funny trolls" that keep the site alive and bad trolls that destroy the site.
Right. It all starts to make sense now.
I don't generally find these "trolls" funny, and I'd never consider them as contributors in any way. What keeps this site alive is the game that we all enjoy and the admins that put down a hard work to maintain the nice atmosphere that still breezes by here every now and then.
I can't be bothered to elaborate further as I find this topic pointless, people won't change. It's the internet, people can hide behind their computer screens and get the satisfaction to get back at people whom they don't know online after perhaps having a rough day, or they're just looking for the attention their mom didn't give them during their childhood. Etcetera.
We're human, most of us are idiots and will forever be.
Personally I don't get flamed basically ever and if I do I'm always ready for a verbal fight, what could be better :)
Defix sucks!
FIGHT!
but well, I'm actually kinda astonished that somebody still remembers defix because most of the time when we play nowadays ppl are like "who are you neverheard xiitor!??!?"
I don't know where you have been lurking, but I've been an active member of a few other communities than Crossfire, and some even much smaller than the so-dubbed /cf/. The thing is, no matter how low you go in population of an Internet community, trolls and flame will always find their way in. That's why you don't take stuff seriously. At least not stuff that you can immediately disregard as utter bullshit. Such stuff is the content the "trolls" are posting in Crossfire.
So with all the flaming and trolling aside, what is there to Crossfire? Lot's of good stuff, in my opinion. We have active news-writers that provide us coverage of big competitions, we have community members who are eager to post little bits of news about the game every now and then, such as the recent announcement of the ET-Xreal project. We have a sort of a technical support forum; almost every day you see people asking about configs or problems with ET and almost every day you see someone helping them with their issue.
Why care about the flame and trolling, if the site does what it's designed for? It's "A Gaming Community", it's an "All Things Enemy Territory" -site. If those descriptions involve a little bit of trolling and flaming, so be it. I don't find it agitating at all. Some of it is amusing, some of it is useless. It's still part of the site.
For me is just a freak circus for trolls and sometimes I feel sorry for the guys that really put effort in to this.
no admin control --> people complain
a lot admin control --> people complain
unfortunatelly, it's almost impossible to find something inbetween