Quote from: m2017 on Today at 05:24:21 PM

Quote from: Free Market Capitalist on June 30, 2025, 04:56:17 AM

In theory, someone who trolls is breaking rule 3 of the forum but from what I've heard from the older folks on the site it's been a long time since it was enforced or it's only done in the most exaggerated cases.

How to define the line between a joke/sarcasm and trolling?

Quote from: jvanname on June 29, 2025, 09:13:12 PM

I have been taking a stand for my own personal safety. And since universities promote violence against me, I had to also make a stand against universities, and I will continue to stand against evil universities until they fucking apologize. Until they do so, they need to be mocked relentlessly! But the people on this site (and everywhere else) are fucking evil, and they FUCKING HATE ME FOR BRINGING THIS UP! HUMANS ARE EVIL ROTTEN VIOLENCE PROMOTING PIECES OF SHIT WHO DESERVE EXTINCTION FOLLOWED BY ETERNAL DAMNATION!

In my opinion, this is a direct insult, not trolling, and I believe that such unethical behavior is also unacceptable on the forum.

And it doesn’t matter whether the reason lies in a mental disorder or something else.

Well, insults are relatively allowed on the forum:

Quote from: mprep on July 21, 2014, 05:27:51 PM

Q: Someone insulted me. Why aren't you deleting his post/thread?
A: Possible (since we don't have the time or resources to check) insults are also allowed as long as they contain any kind of constructive opinion, info or something else substantial and aren't off-topic. For example, posting something like "you are dumb" will be deleted as it contains no meaningful content. However, if the post is somewhere along the lines of "You are dumb. This is wrong because this website/thread/etc. has explained it's not right", it's in most cases accepted.

If you add to that rule 23 you can understand why such posts are not deleted.