Karma system in the official forums?

[ReynTime]

"karma" and downvotes were the worst ideas ever conceived for online forums/message boards.

Also people need to get over themselves. If you're incapable of coming up with proper counter-arguments that's your problem, don't label someone a 'troll' just because they have an unpopular or controversial opinion. "Trauma" isn't an excuse at all.

[tatatatatata]

I'm never off the mark on these.

You're very off the mark in this fever dream of a post. You're seeing connections where there are none, just as you've done so in my thread about the Balance. Find another hobby instead of harassing random people of trolling. Perhaps if you've had joined the forum prior to January 2020 you would actually know who is who and what is what.

[Jin-]

Flaunting my silver medals

Edit: nvm, failed lol

[BunniEclair]

You’re Titanmen, he’s Titanmen, they’re Titanmen, I’m Titanmen

Are there any other Titanmen I should know about?

[Kolsykol]

You’re Titanmen, he’s Titanmen, they’re Titanmen, I’m Titanmen

Are there any other Titanmen I should know about?

What about the Titanwomen?

[BunniEclair]

What about the Titanwomen?

[SturmChurro]

Is it really that helpful to be naming users like this? It may even be against the forum guidelines to do so.

[Ammokkx]

Is it really that helpful to be naming users like this? It may even be against the forum guidelines to do so.

I'm not particularly afraid in this instance. I could've sworn I've done it once before, but it's not in my post history, so either the thread it was in got nuked or it got deleted. Either way I didn't eat a ban over it, and a quick search on any of these accounts shows I'm not just blowing smoke.

I'll risk punitive action if it means making people more aware, in any case.

[SturmChurro]

I'm not particularly afraid in this instance. I could've sworn I've done it once before, but it's not in my post history, so either the thread it was in got nuked or it got deleted. Either way I didn't eat a ban over it, and a quick search on any of these accounts shows I'm not just blowing smoke.

I'll risk punitive action if it means making people more aware, in any case.

I think people are already well aware in many threads, when every third post is something along the lines of: "troll post", "troll thread", etc.. Maybe people just choose to have a discussion regardless, on the merits of the thread topic, or in reply to other users?

[BunniEclair]

I'm not particularly afraid in this instance. I could've sworn I've done it once before, but it's not in my post history, so either the thread it was in got nuked or it got deleted. Either way I didn't eat a ban over it, and a quick search on any of these accounts shows I'm not just blowing smoke.

I'll risk punitive action if it means making people more aware, in any case.

You’re probably not wrong about most of those but it really isn’t going to help. Even if the regulars are aware of who’s who for trolls, there will always be people who just pop on from time to time and get all riled up. And tbh most of the time the troll and bait thread go on forever because people start responding to said people who don’t realize it’s a bait thread and start giving their genuine (usually bad) takes on the topic of choice.

Take the “what content was cut for male viera” thread, started by everyone’s favorite special little lala, MPK. It’s very clearly a bait thread, yet it’s filled with people who genuinely think this content was cut for them. And so people go in there and begin fighting with people who actually hold that belief. And so on and so forth. So knowing the thread is started by a troll account isn’t really going to stop people from posting in it unless they know from the get go. Even then, some people just like to argue. A lot of us are bored. It’s admirable that you’re trying to keep people informed but it’s probably a waste of your energy.