Holy Cow, I am not a Troll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (What is Dennis B Smoking?)

[Anonymous]

On the one hand it is "So what?" but on the other hand we exchange a lot of advice on a lot of subjects, so there is an element of trust, as well.

[DrummingTrainfan]

As we wait during this break in the action would someone please explain to me what a troll is. I've seen the word thrown around alot but am not totally sure what it means. [%-)]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by DrummingTrainfan

As we wait during this break in the action would someone please explain to me what a troll is. I've seen the word thrown around alot but am not totally sure what it means. [%-)]

This is from answers.com:

Technology
trolling

• Surfing, or browsing, the Web.


• Posting derogatory messages about sensitive subjects on newsgroups and chat rooms to bait users into responding.


• Hanging around in a chat room without saying anything, like a "peeping tom."

[DrummingTrainfan]

ok. thanks.

[SpaceMouse]

QUOTE: Originally posted by DrummingTrainfan

As we wait during this break in the action would someone please explain to me what a troll is. I've seen the word thrown around alot but am not totally sure what it means. [%-)]

A troll is an online denizen that baits a forum by making statements or asking questions to deliberately incite emotional reactions. Usually they hang around and fan the flames to keep the anger, etc. going.

[Anonymous]

We call it stirring the pot where I come from.

[twhite]

Trolls are little ugly gnomes that used to hang around under bridges in the Black Forest and attack people like Little Red Riding Hood and Rumplestiltskin if they didn't pay a fee to cross the bridge. You remember the signs, don't you?

STOP--PAY TROLL!!

Tom [xx(]

[wctransfer]

Wow, that is some incriminating evidence, and Lotus hasnt posted yet. He may have been caught.

Alec

[loathar]

I still like the troll definition about them living under a bridge in Mich.
GO BUCKEYES!!!!

[JohnT14808]

8 user(s) are reading this topic. (1 guests, 6 members, 1 anonymous members)

Hm-m-m-m-m-m....I do a lot of reading and little posting on this forum....Does that make me a troll?? Just because I don't post a lot of messages?? I'll need to take lessons from Space Mouse on how to originate thougtfull and inciteful topics...and how to write up a great response from Joe Fugate...... Hope you guys don't charge too much.......as a county employee, I don't make much......

[Junctionfan]

To Dennis B.

If you legally work as a student, taxes come off paychecks right? They do at least in Canada. I don't know what Idaho State taxation laws are, I just know of what it is in Ontario and as the federal government.

The age doesn't mean much either as labour laws are different in Canada then in the U.S. I don't know what the legal age limit is in Idaho for working in a printing shop or Burger King so unless you know and can prove otherwise; the only thing you are doing is trolling.

So, if you have proof to back up your clames against Lotus, keep your negative attitude to yourself. Also, even if he was a troll, nothing pleases a troll more then for us to respond. Believe me; in the Magazine part of the forum we have had one guy who has had at least 5 alias including Trainfinder22. If it is a problem, evetually they will slip up and Bergie will nuke the troll.

[Anonymous]

I thought if you did a lot of reading and not much posting you were "lurking". Actually, I don't see anything wrong with that. When i first started coming to these forums I just watched a while before I started posting. And I don't post as much on Model Railroader as I do Trains. That doesn't mean I don't read and enjoy it.

Don't you think that's better than the 13 year old kid we had on here this spring who treated this like his personal chat room? Of course, now the question is...was he REALLY a 13 year old kid?

mike

[Anonymous]

Not caught, just working on the railroad while I still have summer break. About the employment I do as much part timework as I can get, most of it for my father, he produces customer service training material, for companies. I help with the layout and printing, one of the bigger projects I worked on was the Burger King project. I don't claim to pay income tax; I rue the day I will have too. I get fed up enough at the fact I pay sales tax and can't vote. Are you convinced yet?

[wctransfer]

Ahem , Dennis B should post to fire this up a bit[soapbox]

Alec

[Anonymous]

Big croud, can we charge to see this?

[Anonymous]

I kind of felt like I was 13 again! This reminds me of the fights at the bike racks after school, usually I was the one in the fights as my cousin was the big guy and I was the smaller guy, they always picked on me, but I always stood up and held my ground. Go Lotus, if you are being honest with all of us, and I hope you are, though you sure do write in a mature manner, much more so then me and I am 45 [:(]

I don't know either party in this, but I do know there are forums were some take it upon themselves to be the self appointed moderators or "channel master" like in the old CB radio days. There that should prove I am over 40 [:D]

[Anonymous]

Dennis B...you might ought to get your fact straight before you go posting. Yes, 14 year-olds do occasionally get small jobs such as a small position at Burger King. Whoever said that stuff about you, Lotus, has unjust reasons. They have no clue what they are talking about. May I ask, what forum did this occur in? Please, don't allow them to ruin your fun. Just shake it off and ignore them. I agree, you seem to handle your posts logically and maturely.

Have a good day, and guys-Leave him the heck alone...Let him post in peace.

uspscsx

[pcarrell]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ARTHILL

What is this all about?

I'm with you ARTHILL. It doesn't seem to make much difference to me if he's 4, 40, or 400. We're talking about trains here. Heck, some of them trains are only minutes old, and others are pushing 170! Are we to discriminate against them?

Maybe I'm just missing the point.

I think that was your point ARTHILL.

Again, I'm with you!

I'm going to go sit in the corner and and rock back and forth humming a single note now. [:p]

[Anonymous]

[#ditto] what joe said

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by alstom

QUOTE: 8 user(s) are reading this topic. (0 guests, 7 members, 1 anonymous members)

Still can't get over the crowd!! And just for this lil' fire!! Excuse me if i'm being a little foolish.

Richard

Richard, not to worry, you're not being foolish. This is really a lot of fun!

mike

[Anonymous]

First here:(Did UP Bashers read this, get deleted?) That was where he started it.

And then for no reason, but to persoally discredit my agrument here:http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?page=1&TOPIC_ID=42674

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mehrlich

QUOTE: Originally posted by alstom

QUOTE: 8 user(s) are reading this topic. (0 guests, 7 members, 1 anonymous members)

Still can't get over the crowd!! And just for this lil' fire!! Excuse me if i'm being a little foolish.

Richard

Richard, not to worry, you're not being foolish. This is really a lot of fun!

mike

I happened to pop in and it was up to 13. Anyone know what the record is?

[Anonymous]

Well judging from the crowd in here with the help of your aggressive and antagonistic posts you seem to have picked up a real fan club. Of course it helps to spread the love by going out and picking fights by going into other forums like CTT (although you are a HO man) to stir up trouble.

Thats all for me I will go back to my new hobby of collecting dust bunnies. My new hobby that you kindly tipped me off on in the CTT forum. Thanks it was very consciderate of you to tip on this new and exciting hobby. It is very relazing and I rarely get in conflicts in the on line forum for it.

Peace in the MR forum. The post that this grew from is in the CTT forum and should have stayed there to keep it in context. Instead of playing one forum against the other.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Lotus098

First here:(Did UP Bashers read this, get deleted?) That was where he started it.

And then for no reason, but to persoally discredit my agrument here:http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?page=1&TOPIC_ID=42674

I also found this, not sure if this was before or after***I didn't look at the dates:

http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=24806

Again I find the Model Railroader general Discussions to be the best and freindliest forum here on the Kalmback site. You guys can get serious and have fun.

[ARTHILL]

I posted some really wierd stuff a couple of weeks ago, It turned out that after I taught my Gson how to find the site, he figured out how to post. I convinced him he should at least use his own handle. I don't see that he has posted stuff much since. I read some of the stuff on Trains that Lotus098 was posting, and wondered why such a string should even exist. I really appreciste the advice I get here as I try to catch up after 20 years doing other things. However, there is another even more sinister meaning of trolling, and that needs to be kept off this forum.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by emmaandy

Thats all for me I will go back to my new hobby of collecting dust bunnies. My new hobby that you kindly tipped me off on in the CTT forum. Thanks it was very consciderate of you to tip on this new and exciting hobby. It is very relazing and I rarely get in conflicts in the on line forum for it.

What is the CTT forum and how exactly do you collect dust bunnies, I always seem to have them even if I am not collecting them.

[Anonymous]

You must be talking to me.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by emmaandy

Well judging from the crowd in here with the help of your aggressive and antagonistic posts you seem to have picked up a real fan club. Of course it helps to spread the love by going out and picking fights by going into other forums like CTT (although you are a HO man) to stir up trouble.

Thats all for me I will go back to my new hobby of collecting dust bunnies. My new hobby that you kindly tipped me off on in the CTT forum. Thanks it was very consciderate of you to tip on this new and exciting hobby. It is very relazing and I rarely get in conflicts in the on line forum for it.

Peace in the MR forum. The post that this grew from is in the CTT forum and should have stayed there to keep it in context. Instead of playing one forum against the other.

Actually the only place I have quoted or linked to is the Model Railroader forum. I put the other topic over there because this was the place with a higher number of UP bashers who needed to see some facts, since they might not feel obliged to come down here if they model O scale. I like TrainFreak409 (who is also a teenager, but doesn't always write like one, post all over the place.)

[wctransfer]

Richard slow yourself. Some of your posts have no reason.

Alec

[ARTHILL]

I would have been a better modeler today if there would have been a forum like this 60 years ago.