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Started 2 years ago by Madlink
Latest reply from Ireland Michael

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Madlink
Member

Right, I know I should just be ignorning this little cock stain, but until the site adds a 'hide user' function to the comments section, the VG247 staff really should be actively banning little rejects like this.

His amazingly insightful comments in the last 24 hours include;

"every mobile other than sony sucks"
"it's a failed product nobody cares"
"meh PC gaming is dead"
"casual americans still buying shit"
"Pokemon Black and White video is full of shit"
"3ds is a failures with last gen graphics NGP is the true powerful handheld."

Honestly, do we want this guy on VG247, he spams every story with shit like this. Right now, it's pretty much all of his comments on the 'Latest Comments' bar on the main page.

I know you've already warned him Pat, but get rid of this guy.

Posted 2 years ago #
Robo_1
Member

Can we add sony_sucks to that list too. I'm convinced they're the same person just trolling around.

Posted 2 years ago #
Madlink
Member

Yeah, I second that one too Robo_1.

Posted 2 years ago #
Yoshi
Member

Agreed, I constantly find myself arguing with him and his stupid comments and I haven't argued with anyone until now. :/ I think banning him right now is a little harsh so maybe warn him once more and if he makes any more comments like the examples above then he is done... fair?

Posted 2 years ago #
Dralen
Member

To be fair he's already been warned by Pat several times and he's still ignored him.

Posted 2 years ago #
RickyWicky
Member

I think blackdreamhunk should be included, really.

Posted 2 years ago #
Yoshi
Member

@RickyWicky I wouldn't say blackdreamhunk is as bad as back_up. back_up intentionally trolls like a whore. blackdreamhunk just reallly stands by his opinions. (As I can see anyway)

Posted 2 years ago #
OlderGamer
Moderator

And you see there in sits the problem.

Alot of people are going to have a lot of different answers to the should we ban question. Personialy, I think Back_up has gone too far. I think he logs on with intent to derail threads. It is a game he is playing.

However, I do not believe that BDH is on the same level. I believe he trolls for topics. I believe he likes to put his two cents worth on a topic. And I beleive that most of the comunity disagrees with him most of the time. However I do not believe that he sets out to sabotoge the site. He also doesn't lower himself to the name calling/trash talking that someone like Back_up does.

Like him or not, imo, BDH is fine.

But by using the same templete some would call for Tea to be banned. He shouldn't be. Some would call for Mike to be banned. Or Gadzooks. Or even me lol. But there is always going to be someone that doesn't like or agree with someone else.

That is NOT a reason to ban anyone.

But to be clear, imo, Back_up has earned a boot.

I have offered to mod the other side of the site, if Pat should want. I know he has more important shit to do then babbysit for trolling. But its his call.

Posted 2 years ago #
Dralen
Member

@OG Agreed.

Back_up has also been warned on several occasions by Pat. If he thinks Back_up has gone too far, then he's gone too far.

Posted 2 years ago #
Ireland Michael
Moderator

Pat is only going to ban people other very extreme circumstances. He has made this fact clear for years. I've personally ever seen him ban two, maybe three people at most, in this site's history.

If you really want to ignore people, help out with this: http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=4384

It's the closest you're ever going to get to an ignore feature.

Posted 2 years ago #
Syrok
Member

Or you know just implement a feature that lets you downrate comments. Maybe that a certain threshold before a post becomes invisible (unless clicked on) and allow people to have no threshold if they want to see everything. Just like on EG.

Posted 2 years ago #
G1GAHURTZ
Member

Why don't you just ignore him!?

What's so difficult about that? No one's forcing you to read every single comment on the site, so whenever you see any usernames that you know are regular trolls, just skip to the next coment.

I really don't see why people are finding it so difficult to control what they do and don't read.

I personally haven't read much of what he's supposed to have been saying, but judging from the OP, it seems as though all he does is bait people with trash talk about consoles!

Just accept that he hates whatever he hates and deal with it.

There's no prize for proving him wrong.

At the end of the day, he's continuing to do it because people keep responding to him. If people ignored him, he'd almost certainly either change his behaviour or just get bored and stop posting.

Posted 2 years ago #
Ireland Michael
Moderator

"At the end of the day, he's continuing to do it because people keep responding to him. If people ignored him, he'd almost certainly either change his behaviour or just get bored and stop posting."

When all is said and done, this is fundamentally true.

I for one just ignore those kinds of posts nowadays. TEA and I haven't shared a word in forever, and its made all the difference. If you don't respond to someone, they won't have anything to respond back to. It's better to have one stupid post by some like back_up in a thread, rather than twenty.

Posted 2 years ago #
Madlink
Member

@ G1GAHURTZ & Michael O'Connor

What you're suggesting is usually the way I'd deal with guys like this and I agree with all of the points you're making. It was just when I logged on this morning, the entire 'Latest Comments' section (which I skim to get the general tone of the comments on the news) was filled by his nonsense.

But anyway, I'll try not to rise to him again.

Posted 2 years ago #
Dralen
Member

@GIGA While that's all easy enough for most of us to do, not all the newcomers will be able to do that and will get fed up of it. At the end of the day he's bring down the sites rep.

Posted 2 years ago #
Ireland Michael
Moderator

@Madlink

Like I said, if someone can update the Ignore User hack I linked to, then it won't even be an issue. You'll never see them full stop.

Posted 2 years ago #
freedoms_stain
Moderator

You won't see back_up, but you'll still see the waves created by his idiocy.

Threaded comments would have been nice in vg247 2.0, therefore I could skim past back_up and all the nauseating guff that resulted would be contained within a nice collapsible thread.

Lets face it though, this dude is one of the worst persistent trolls we've had. I don't think he's even a troll, he's actually a fucking moron who rabidly believes the shit he spouts, because unlike most of our trolls who drop the odd inflammatory comment here or there, back_up actually persists in arguing the same old tired shit, quadruple posting to reply to everyone who addresses him.

We literally can't get a PC or 360 focussed article without this cock bag rolling in to declare everyone a pirate or rah rah rah about fictional 50% failure rates.

The dude has been a broken record for quite some time, maybe it's time to fling that broken record in the trash.

Posted 2 years ago #
M. K.
Member

First there's going to be snowballs in hell and than someone on VG24/7 is going to get baned :D

Posted 2 years ago #
freedoms_stain
Moderator

The ban hammer has fallen before.

Posted 2 years ago #
Kerplunk
Member

Madlink, trolls feed off attention. You've created a topic dedicated to someone you consider a troll. You've just given them even more attention and a lot more reason to do what they're doing - you've proved to them it's working.

As others have said, learn to ignore people. These flimsy excuses as to why someone else should be exiled simply because you can't muster up the small amount of self-control required to scroll past a comment is as bad as trolling. And further excuses claiming the demands for having someone banned is for the sake of others more than yourselves is equally transparent.

Scroll past it. Problem solved. It's really not very hard to do.

Seriously, between this sort of attempt at mob rule and the blatant troll-baiters that act like they're the victims I'd say the trolls themselves are pretty inoffensive.

Posted 2 years ago #
Mike
Key Master

Ignore him. In fact, I'd say that creating a forum thread targeting another user and asking for them to be banned is more of a bannable offence than said user posting his opinion.

:)

Posted 2 years ago #
StolenGlory
Member

BDH is an arrogant moron OG - *that* is the reason why I choose to ignore him and the garbage that the little retard spills forth everytime a thread pops up regarding console exclusivity and so forth.

He reminds me of Erth a bit, but at least Erth has a capacity to reason with other people's opinions from time to time. BDH somehow believes in his teeny, tiny little mind that he is god's gift to the games industry.

He isn't.

And please don't try and tell me that he merely voices his 'opinion' and that we're somehow assholes for disagreeing with him - we're not; we just dislike arrogant pricks such as him that somehow think that their childish diatribes which they claim are opinion, yet masquerade as fact - are nothing short of fanboy trolling 101 with no productive or meaningful end.

He doesn't listen to other people's opinion and he refuses point blank to accept that at ANY point in ANY shape or form that he is wrong.

I'm sorry OG, I respect you mate but BDH is a blight on this forum and he should be thankful that he has someone of your caliber supporting him because fuck knows nobody else would attempt to defend that moron.

Anyways, back on OT - Yes, I DO believe that back_up should be banned.

Period.

Posted 2 years ago #
daytripper
Member

dont forget it_sucks aswell,

Posted 2 years ago #
DSB
Member

Like others say, I don't get why back_up deserves the attention. All he does is puke over a certain news item and for whatever reason that piss poor effort is rewarded with massive attention. It's really no wonder why he keeps going.

I like the fact that the site is free from overzealous moderation, even if it bothers people that they may get challenged in various ways.

Posted 2 years ago #
G1GAHURTZ
Member

Actually, I agree with OG on bdh. He makes me laugh.

Just don't take him too seriously and whatever he writes shouldn't bother you.

Posted 2 years ago #
Christopher Jack
Member

We just want the childish kids who are ONLY posting to piss people off gone, how is that overzealous moderation? Everywhere else that I've visited it's known as regular moderation, banning somebody who says something childish or irritating from time to time like TEA, Xino, Erthazus & Kuwabarra is too harsh, but guys like itsucks(likely sony_sucks too), BDH & back_up are only in it to get a negative reaction.

Posted 2 years ago #
DSB
Member

The point is that wanting to get rid of things that you might not prefer to look at more often than not leads to overzealous moderation. Just look at any similar site that has crossed that line.

I trust PatGar to make whatever decision he finds best for the site, including the termination of users. I just think he should do it without a word and let it be that. No spectacle involved. No need for a police force.

And most definitely no need for forum posts advocating one way or the other.

Posted 2 years ago #
ManuOtaku
Member

Guys, if we do get "back_up", banned we will be acting just like sony, and we are not those guys, we respect human rights, right guys

Posted 2 years ago #
xino
Member

look at this fucking idiot Crysis calling my name!

Get me banned I don't care, I'll just do my part and make sure I tell people not to come to this site overrun by morons.

People like Crysis are the asshole ruining this goddamn site!
Because you are older you think you are bigger over the internet? son look at your ugly face in the mirror and see just how much of a hypocrite you are!

Every comment I see from you is always instigating arguments and fuelling arguments! If trolls like Back_up should be banned, then mother fucker like yourself should be fucking banned!

I don't give a fuck if you've been here since the foundation of this site, you are a vermin to this site and you are ruining it's reputation!
I mean who the fuck are you to call out names who should be banned???

And I swear down if I do find out that those names above the list have been banned, I'll make sure I tell people not to come to this trash site, and further give this site a bad name! If you think 1 man like me cannot do a damage in terms of hit...you better think again.

Man I really don't give a fuck about this site anymore. It is overrun by morons. And I would suggest people to read the topics I've posted in (not much) and see just how the "good" members here attack you randomly because of your opinion yet the mods or admin do nothing!

Posted 2 years ago #
DSB
Member

I'm so glad someone made this thread.

Now we can argue about the people on the site, rather than games and what they think of them.

Thanks!

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