Trolling

Discussion in 'Customer Service' started by usbfc, Mar 16, 2010.

  1. usbfc

    usbfc New Member

    Sep 8, 2000
    New York City
    I noticed I had an old notification in my inbox. I checked it out, it's from 2008. It's a warning for Big Soccer for 'Trolling'.

    My quote was an opinion about firing Tom Soehn (which was basically agreeing with a different poster who said the same thing) and I was sharing opinions about my attitude about what will make Major League Soccer successful.

    It was coherent, well-thought-out, and I am literally outraged that I received a warning for expressing my opinions. My first club in MLS was DC United as that was the club I was located near when the league started. I have every right to express my opinion, negative or positive, as often as I want in ANY forum I want. It is an expression of my right to free speech.

    If I get another warning again, I will make it a legal battle. I am just outraged at someone trying to shut me up, especially when what I was saying was for the good of the club in question and the good of the league in general. It was not violent or racist or stereotyping in any way.

    Ridiculous. I am furious.
     
  2. Prawn Sandwich

    Oct 1, 2003
    Bhutan
    [gets popcorn and pulls up chair]
     
  3. Alex_K

    Alex_K Member+

    Mar 23, 2002
    Braunschweig, Germany
    Club:
    Eintracht Braunschweig
    Nat'l Team:
    Bhutan
    That's good trolling, if I have ever seen some.
     
  4. Mr. Bandwagon

    Mr. Bandwagon Member

    Terremotos
    May 24, 2001
    the Barbary Coast
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Have you considered writing your congressman?
     
  5. RichardL

    RichardL BigSoccer Supporter

    May 2, 2001
    Berkshire
    Club:
    Reading FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Yeah, but you did say he should be shot along with his wife, and any fans who disagree should have their buttocks pulled apart until they can be used as ear-muffs.

    Sure is.
     
  6. el-capitano

    el-capitano Moderator
    Staff Member

    Aug 30, 2005
    Sydney
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Australia
    And it was only a warning too- not an actual infraction. :)
     
  7. dark knight

    dark knight Super Moderator
    Staff Member

    Dec 15, 1999
    Club:
    Leicester City FC
    This thread is two weeks early.
     
  8. Caesar

    Caesar Moderator
    Staff Member

    Mar 3, 2004
    Oztraya
    It's so tempting to infract the OP. :p
     
  9. bungadiri

    bungadiri Super Moderator
    Staff Member

    Jan 25, 2002
    Acnestia
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Believe me, I checked. Fool me once...
     
  10. Moishe

    Moishe Moderator
    Staff Member

    Boca Juniors
    Argentina
    Mar 6, 2005
    Here there and everywhere.
    Club:
    CA Boca Juniors
    Nat'l Team:
    Argentina
    The area in bold was your first mistake which in of itself was worthy of a ban let alone a warning but the rest of your post wreaks of bad things. You are lucky the admin team doesn't seek legal action against you.
     
  11. WhiteStar Warriors

    Mar 25, 2007
    St.Pete/Krakow
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Did I get banned from the MLS forum section?
     
  12. BobanFan

    BobanFan Member+

    Jun 28, 2007
    Club:
    AC Milan
    If you did, consider yourself lucky.
     
  13. Cool Rob

    Cool Rob Member

    Sep 26, 2002
    Chicago USA
    Club:
    Flamengo Rio Janeiro
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I just wanted to troll the Trolling thread too. I realize its very 1995/postmodern to express a cynical, recursory- and frankly trite- thought such as this, in this particular context especially, but hey.
     
  14. Crazy_Yank

    Crazy_Yank Member

    Jan 8, 2001
    Matamoros, Mexico
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I think I should be allowed to post off color racial jokes. The fact that I can't proves that Huss hates my freedom. In fact I think I will be suing bigsoccer and the OP of this thread.
     
  15. RichardL

    RichardL BigSoccer Supporter

    May 2, 2001
    Berkshire
    Club:
    Reading FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Personally I intend suing the US legal system, for the distress caused by frivolous lawsuits.
     
  16. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    We don't have guys in silly wigs here, so I wish you luck on finding the courtroom.
     
  17. RichardL

    RichardL BigSoccer Supporter

    May 2, 2001
    Berkshire
    Club:
    Reading FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    You have William Shatner. Can I sue him?
     
  18. Nacional Tijuana

    Nacional Tijuana St. Louis City

    St. Louis City SC
    May 6, 2003
    San Diego, Calif.
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yeah, it was a long time 'til I realized those Rescue 9-1-1 segments were reenactments. He better have people, because my people need to contact them.

    Wait, OK, so trolling...well...sounds kind of like that city where Volvos are made. Trollhattan?

    I like those old Volvo 240s. An old quasimontessori teacher of mine had one.
     
  19. Smulan

    Smulan Member

    Apr 3, 2008
    Trollhättan *nods*. It's actually the "film capital" of Sweden, jocularly known as Trollywood. I kid you not.
     
  20. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    You mean Captain Kirk? No you may not.

    Now Sarah Palin, go right ahead. Just make sure she can't see your house from where she lives.
     
  21. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    That's either children's movies or porn. Haven't decided which side I'm leaning towards...
     
  22. Ismitje

    Ismitje Super Moderator

    Dec 30, 2000
    The Palouse
    Club:
    Real Salt Lake
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Really cool system of locks/dams there too, if I am remebering the places I visited correctly.
     
  23. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Your retrograde understanding of self-reflexive "trolling" undermines any claims you might make to postmodernity. Indeed, the paradigmatic trolling narrative you seek to undermine is in fact reinforced by the conventional format you invoke in order to provide a context for your post. Therefore, your attempt at trolling is in fact nothing but a significant, dare I say meaningful, contribution to the thread, and thus, in the parlance of internet trolling, "an epic fail."
     
  24. Smulan

    Smulan Member

    Apr 3, 2008
    If you'd only mentioned "hermeneutics", I'd have given you rep.
     
  25. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Your post is the exact sort of trolling that got Hans Georg Gadamer repeatedly banned from bigtheory.com.


    Besides, I didn't want to sound pompous.
     

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