Bangitintrnet wrote: October 21st, 2021, 4:11 pm
Torquay Exile wrote: October 21st, 2021, 2:14 pm
Should put out the best possible team? Total votes: 22 (46.81%)
Begin to put resources into the development of the club.? Total votes: 22 (46.81%)
No opinion? Total votes: 3 (6.38%)
It was a good idea to run this poll. I think the person who set this poll up on behalf of Stan should have asked him how he would like the poll worded.
I would have worded the poll this way:
(A) Should we consider a promotion for the next five years. Concentrate instead on fundraising looking to build a new stadium?
(B) Go all out for promotion this season and next. Then look into buying into Rodney Parade (50/50 ownership with the WRU)?
(C) Agree with B with more help from the supporters and set up a fundraising committee that would work with the directors and the Trust?
(D) No opinion?
Personally, I had no option to vote for.
If it had been a worthwhile debate, followed by a vote, it would have made more sense.
However if you call for a vote and then don't put forward an option to vote for that is the opposite to your opinion then it becomes pointless.
An option such as "are you content with the way the board of directors are moving the club forward" ? Would have been the obvious choice, but it wasn't designed as a meaningful vote was it
Nevermind that the foreign troll having set the vote, didn't get the result he wanted, he declared a draw.
Having declared a draw, the foreign troll then decided that he had a mandate to attack the board of directors at Exeter!
He won't answer this of course, because he will say he has foe'd myself. However he still seems to know that I write in red to be heard, above the insulating
I don't believe you can ignore trolls, because they genuinely believe they are carrying out a service. The best way of dealing with them is to keep asking who they are representing when they go on the Attack against those running the club.
Do you know the definition of Trolling?
Let me give an example:
Going on to an online discussion group. About astronomy and insisting that the earth is flat provokes an emotional and verbal response from community members.
This might be a relatively tame example, but the intent is still to disrupt and incite outrage. It is important. To note, that early trolling. Wasnt targeted by specific individuals. The goal was to derail the conversation, not torture particular commenters.
Trolling Has been weaponized:
As the idea of trolling spread, online community members came to expect this emotional instigate, aggressors also became more inventive, collaborating and escalating their efforts to not only destroy online discussions but to punish and silence participants. Instead of inciting arguments within a community for the sake of entertainment, online actors might attack an individual with whom they disagree by bombarding them with insults or spreading false information about them.
Let me go on.
From there trolling, was used as a tool for ideological battles. For example, in 2013, a group of so-called “men’s rights activists” flooded Occidental College’s online reporting system for sexual assault with more than
400 false reports. The effort was organized on Reddit and 4Chan. The group used trolling strategies like impersonating a member of a community. To provoke an outpouring of emotional and administrative energy. In perhaps the most influential. For example, thus far, the swirl of
false information and
conspiracies used to influence the 2016 presidential election used many tools for trolling: outrageous statements, purposeful misinformation, and fake online identities.
While the original trolls acted with intent to create discord and their strategies, was to target
specific points of view and
populations. Trolling was never harmless, but the gravity of online harassment today has gone far beyond trolling’s prank-like beginnings.
An Example:
Insulting or vulgar messages is one form of
online harassment, but they may not elicit action from
platform administrators or
law enforcement when the abuser is ignored. And then the context is not assessed. And it escalates to
physical stalking or
violence. Even if online abuse does not escalate to offline threats or violence, that does not make it acceptable.
