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Should we start leaving leaving a stylish impression by smashing a 9670 over their heads?
(pun intended)
But in all fairness, that is true. The nasties trolls can only be stopped by death (I've dealt with them myself and they are a flipping nightmare as a mod! My response was usually banned in about 8 different ways!)05-06-11 07:01 PM - Honestly, it's not even unfair device bashing that leads to personal attacks (it does, but not all the time). The majority of the time, if the word "Apple" is mentioned in a thread, someone will throw out the "Apple users are sheep", "Apple users are followers", "Apple products are for..." type comments. RIM bashers will start off by bashing the platform/company, and then a BB user will respond, and then the RIM basher will retaliate with an improper and disrespectful use of the word "ignorant".
Then there are the times when people aren't bashing anything, and just criticizing (negative criticism doesn't always include bashing) a product. The angry users of said platform or device will come in, defend the product that does not have feelings, and put too much of their feelings into it which then takes things overboard.
Then there are the arguments where people have absolutely nothing to counter argue, and just start defending their device even with its lack of certain features the thread may be talking about. They then try to completely change the subject, someone then calls them out and it turns into a
show.
Believe it or not, all of this started with the introduction of the Storm forums. This is when massive amount of hate and flaming started. Waaaay before Android was relevant, before many users left for the iPhone and before the trolls came along. When the Storm forums came out, we had BB users bashing BB users. Instead of Android vs. iOS vs BBOS arguments, we had heated carrier wars.
Unfortunately, bashing and making fun of other people is part of human nature. Some people just have the ability to control themselves. The trolls and other people who are causing problems do not.05-06-11 07:52 PM - This is a very good post!Honestly, it's not even unfair device bashing that leads to personal attacks (it does, but not all the time). The majority of the time, if the word "Apple" is mentioned in a thread, someone will throw out the "Apple users are sheep", "Apple users are followers", "Apple products are for..." type comments. RIM bashers will start off by bashing the platform/company, and then a BB user will respond, and then the RIM basher will retaliate with an improper and disrespectful use of the word "ignorant".
Then there are the times when people aren't bashing anything, and just criticizing (negative criticism doesn't always include bashing) a product. The angry users of said platform or device will come in, defend the product that does not have feelings, and put too much of their feelings into it which then takes things overboard.
Then there are the arguments where people have absolutely nothing to counter argue, and just start defending their device even with its lack of certain features the thread may be talking about. They then try to completely change the subject, someone then calls them out and it turns into ashow.
Believe it or not, all of this started with the introduction of the Storm forums. This is when massive amount of hate and flaming started. Waaaay before Android was relevant, before many users left for the iPhone and before the trolls came along. When the Storm forums came out, we had BB users bashing BB users. Instead of Android vs. iOS vs BBOS arguments, we had heated carrier wars.
Unfortunately, bashing and making fun of other people is part of human nature. Some people just have the ability to control themselves. The trolls and other people who are causing problems do not.
*sidebar* I think you can't really set a guideline when it comes to "unfair" device bashing. How would you determine which opinion is "fair." If the personal attacked are kept at a minimum everything else should fall into place.
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk05-06-11 08:15 PM - Very good posts folks. We in the modfia are doing all we can to stifle hate speech. It's a lot to do, when you have to read through a thread of 30 some odd posts, and delete about half of them, half of those for quoting/reacting to some
statement from an . I can't emphasize enough the power of the report button. You aren't guaranteed the result you want. Ya'll have recognized it's all subject to interpretation, but most likely if it walks and talks like a duck, we know it. The pendulum does swing all ways too. No personal attack is acceptable on CrackBerry.
Keep striving to set the right example.
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