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I know the forums have lost their rules, and I'm going to correct that in the next patch I'm creating for the boards, but they do still apply.
One of the rules people don't seem to understand is the "No Trolling" rule. Even our very own paintingatree once said...
Good point, paintingatree! Why do we have a rule about not involving ourselves with the people we talk about, if we do actually discuss them in the manner we do? The answer is simple: it's for your own good.
As far as I am aware, prodding people into doing stuff by posting videos and sending harmless messages is not illegal, so the rule doesn't exist to cover the staff's ass. No, it exists for very different reason: you're probably going to fuck up. In your valiant effort for
epik ween , you're going to release your own information and get shit on by other people.
It's also, in my experience, true that the same people who are perpetuating these plans are often vicious try-hards. Lets say we have an instance where an obese, Amazing Atheist look-alike tries to rustle the jimmies of a semi-retarded hick by using the oh-so-inspired method of mimicking videos, a la the impostor in brown. Lets say that this plan gets exposed because they used the same name on their forum account as they did on the videos in question. Lets say that another group of Internet denizens discover these cringe-inducing attempts at trolling and also begins looking into this person.
What we have here is a backfire. Not only have they exposed themselves, but they've embarrassed the community. People will see the forums and think, "Oh, it's the ween factory that produces horrible troll videos." That's not what I want. I have a good collection of people here and I want representations to be positive. I want interactions with outside groups to be positive. There's no reason for this bad blood to spill forth and the only appropriate answer is to cauterize the wound.
So, in short, the No Trolling rule is handled in a case-by-case basis, but anything requiring more effort than a few clicks is well into the danger zone. There are instances where we have people doing little things like posting with Wikia accounts to irritate Moleman9000. That's not so bad, and it can be productive to actually seeing Moleman get riled up. But when we have such exuberant amounts of effort going into something ultimately worthless and unfunny there's no excuse.
One of the rules people don't seem to understand is the "No Trolling" rule. Even our very own paintingatree once said...
Good point, paintingatree! Why do we have a rule about not involving ourselves with the people we talk about, if we do actually discuss them in the manner we do? The answer is simple: it's for your own good.
As far as I am aware, prodding people into doing stuff by posting videos and sending harmless messages is not illegal, so the rule doesn't exist to cover the staff's ass. No, it exists for very different reason: you're probably going to fuck up. In your valiant effort for
epik ween , you're going to release your own information and get shit on by other people.It's also, in my experience, true that the same people who are perpetuating these plans are often vicious try-hards. Lets say we have an instance where an obese, Amazing Atheist look-alike tries to rustle the jimmies of a semi-retarded hick by using the oh-so-inspired method of mimicking videos, a la the impostor in brown. Lets say that this plan gets exposed because they used the same name on their forum account as they did on the videos in question. Lets say that another group of Internet denizens discover these cringe-inducing attempts at trolling and also begins looking into this person.
What we have here is a backfire. Not only have they exposed themselves, but they've embarrassed the community. People will see the forums and think, "Oh, it's the ween factory that produces horrible troll videos." That's not what I want. I have a good collection of people here and I want representations to be positive. I want interactions with outside groups to be positive. There's no reason for this bad blood to spill forth and the only appropriate answer is to cauterize the wound.
So, in short, the No Trolling rule is handled in a case-by-case basis, but anything requiring more effort than a few clicks is well into the danger zone. There are instances where we have people doing little things like posting with Wikia accounts to irritate Moleman9000. That's not so bad, and it can be productive to actually seeing Moleman get riled up. But when we have such exuberant amounts of effort going into something ultimately worthless and unfunny there's no excuse.
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