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Old 11-10-2003, 09:59 AM   #30
Cloudbringer
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Join Date: March 1, 2001
Location: Upstate NY USA
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Wellard, sometimes the people who mess up are legit and dont' mean to or just don't realize that what they are doing is not acceptable on IW, because they come from places where it's a lot rougher and people flame as a matter of course.

BUT sometimes it's just a troll being a troll and they relish all the attention they can get, because it means they've 'fooled' someone. Most trolls delight in wasting other people's time or getting them riled up. I saw one on GD (who oozed into BG2) once, who claimed to be this young innocent kid, but was posting highly explicit sexual descriptions and aberrations and fishing for sympathy....he ended up getting a lot of people going back and forth about how he might be real or how he was a troll...until he got to sit back and laugh while WE argued amongst ourselves about his veracity! [img]tongue.gif[/img] Definite trollish waste of space, that one. Yet some people even went to instant message programs to 'help' him.

So I guess the best thing to do is wait and see how he/she behaves and take your best guess! Sorry I can't be of more help on that one! I think sometimes it's just a 'gut instinct' to tell if it's a troll from past experiences. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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