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just for factual reference
The optician thread is my favourite.
Relating an allotment to the Middle East was a good un.
Why are you so focused on ‘most’ ‘least’ ‘richest’ etc type threads?
For objective analysis we'd need to know for certain that the motivation of the poster was purely to create controversy and/or antagonism as opposed to an honestly held opinion that happens to stir shit.
The term troll is regularly misapplied on here when people simply disagree with a contentious, controversial or different opinion.
The biggest ones would go unnoticed as a troll thread, a good troll isn’t obvious.
is it Mark making out we were having a new forum?
Other than that it's got to be God.
Relating an allotment to the Middle East was a good un.
Mr Nutt - genius
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/my-bloody-allotment-is-being-taken-over
is it Mark making out we were having a new forum?
I’m with Jekkyl on this one. The shutting of the forum for update was a master stroke.
Back in the days between Half-Life 1 and 2, the pre-release hype over 2 was stratospheric. Everyone wanted an interview with Valve, and better if Gabe was there.
Valve were [i]careful[/i] in who they let see the game, and journos had an hour in a room with a rep and a dev from Valve to see the game in action. Some hands-on was permitted. Lots of copy-cat reviews started to appear in print.
At the time, I occasionally contributed articles to a now defunct online video gaming 'magazine', who'd been denied access to experience this fabled Valve HL2 demo. Tried and tried, but they just weren't big enough.
The mag was peeved. I offered to write up a sort of prank review. The premise was that I'd been allowed to play the last level. My description and narrative of it, for those who had long memories of video gaming, would have led the reader to realise by the end of the page that I had described a 3D FPS version of Donkey Kong, where Freeman was Mario.
It essentially sent up the ending of HL1, which was a 'how high can you try?' pixel-perfect jump-fest and a very incongruous addition to an otherwise excellent game.
The editor, who was as long in the tooth as I was, thought it was hilarious and ran it.
Gabe Newell/Valve PR didn't like it. Neither did all the puzzled, expectant fans. Neither did the editor, when the backlash began....
I was never asked to contribute again.
I have no interest in bivi and have never been ill.,,,
Just saying...
But apart from the Jerusalem allotment surely the biggest troll didn’t actually happen here but was a MN incursion
just enjoyed reading the allotment thread again, made all the better by the people claiming that it was historically inaccurate and that Hitler has nothing to do with the creation of the situation.
Hooked a few big fish that day.
Emily Green.
Art.
Was that luke and his teenage angst thread ?Emily Green.
Was good that one
CaptainFlashheart - MemberEmily Green.
Probably "India Jane" but not on here Charlie eh 😉
I remember WCAs thread about swapping his wife for a newer model. Anyone who knows him knows this will never happen but he had most of the forum hook, line and sinker if I recall correctly. 🙂
Is it the bloke that keeps moaning about taking his bike to the local bike mechanic?
Is it the Brother in Law, Simon?
Other than that it's got to be God.
God posts on single track? Must look harder.
simondbarnes - Member
Is it the bloke that keeps moaning about taking his bike to the local bike mechanic?
Have wondered if it's a bike shop / mechanic trolling us 😀
if you find evidence of him let us all know right!!!God posts on single track
Chewkw
Although it looks as though he's back under another alias
Having just spotted a thread with troll written all over it.
Is it worth separating quality trolling with just being a ****ing prick?
Both categories deserve a top 10 awards.
Do you ‘pull’ a troll?
Not for a lot of years now, since I got married especially.
At his pithy best 🙂
ChewkwAlthough it looks as though he's back under another alias
He's not banned AFAIK.
(Which alias? Grass!)
Flapjackie for the win
I've been wondering about that too.ChewkwAlthough it looks as though he's back under another alias
The Allotment thread is great. Not seen it before
Saw "Hora" and "Idave"
Cuterunner is my all-time favorite, annoying prick had everyone going for a while.
I trolled the Guardian once after taking inspiration from Quagmire.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/nov/25/sexual-healing-no-sex-retaliation
"I don't know, Peter. If you have sex with her, you give her all the power. If you don't have sex with her, you're gay. You can't win." - Quagmire
To this day, I like to wind up my oldest friend, a marxist Oxford graduate by telling him I got published in the Grauniad before he did.
Is it worth separating quality trolling with just being a **** prick?
This. Most people do not appreciate the art of a good troll.
Drac - ModeratorThe biggest ones would go unnoticed as a troll thread
matt_outandabout about to the podium please! 😀
+1 sbob 😆
Not one vote 😐
Do you ‘pull’ a troll?
Clearly you've never been to The Purple Turtle in Reading
[quote=sbob ]matt_outandabout about to the podium please!
😆
One way ticket on the hell train please:
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=1017090
matt_outandabout about to the podium please!
What was matt_outandabout's troll thread then? 🙂
[url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/eu-referendum-are-you-in-or-out ]This...[/url]
TJ/me.
We're actually the same person.
sbob - Member
One way ticket on the hell train please:
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=1017090
Ok, that is genuinely petty cruel but I'm not going to lie. I did laugh. A lot. Whilst managing to feel pretty guilty at the same time!
zokes - Still not a customer
This...
Not trolling!
That thread makes me believe that we one day might actually invent a perpetual motion machine. 🙂
I really enjoyed the 9/11 thread late last year, it was a good mix between tin hat wearing nutter(s) and trolling IMO...
Similarly with the aeroplane/conveyor belt threads. You can never be sure who is trolling and who really [i]does[/i] think the plane can take off.
You can never be sure who is trolling and who really does think the plane can take off.
😆