EVE New Citizens Q&A

There has been a rise in trolling on the newbie forums recently, which is rather distressing to see. I would like to point out that when you troll the newbie forums (yes, you!) you are directly harming Eve.

I know why trolling is fun, and I do it myself at times, too (mostly via sardonic caricatures of bad posters). However, sarcastically telling an old player that he needs more faction modules on his fit, or telling him to take a field trip to Rancer, is completely different than telling a newbie the same thing.

The new players who come with questions to this subforum are a sampling of the right kind of player we want in Eve for the game to grow: someone who wants to learn and grow, and isn't afraid to tap the already existing resources of other players to do so. By filling the subforum with crap, you are not only misguiding players who would help the game grow positively, but you are also discrediting the Eve community as a welcoming place that wants to grow.

The ISD has been doing a good job cleaning up things that pop up, but keeping at least the newbie forum clean is something we can all help do.

So, please: be respectful, be productive, don't feed the trolls, and report them if they come up.

Thank you!

Make our lives easier especially in this section of the forums and just be more helpful then trollful.

Thanks for the complements :)

I agree. Trolling a thread that deserves it is all good fun, but shitting up threads of new guys that really can't know better just stinks. Some for creation of idiot threads here.

Also, New Citizens is one of the few forums where a more rigid ISD presence would actually be welcome. Assholes like this guy just need to be banned from the forums as soon as it's clear that they don't do anything else but shitting up threads.

As much as i agree, i feel sadly that it's a bit naive. The person (well there are many usually, of course, but these last days it has been much about one idiot) who is doing that is perfectly aware of what he is doing, so i don't think that explaining him how bad it is will make him stop. It's the activity of a sick mind who has found no better way to evacuate his frustrations. The only effective thing would be to redirect him to a forum of professionnal psychanalysts.

I know, but reminding everyone to not feed the trolls and to rebuke them (rather than plain moving on and letting them be, or worse, helping them) is something others can do to help.

Same in the help channel, funny thing is that if I see someone trolling in help channel and I check him on KBs it shows that more often than not they're utterly useless at EVE, flying shitfits extraordinary and losing haulers in Rancer. So I guess they're just mad because they're bad at EVE they need to vent it. When I find someone like that in the help channel I uhm... subtly... state my findings, and that they'd probably be better off shutting up and listening to answers than to troll the channel. Sometimes it even works!

Oh come on, the same trolls troll for months on end, literally, I can name you quite a few (and have petitioned them over and over). They might get a warning and will come back a bit later. And even if, they'd just make a new alt and do it allover again.

Byhyy....

Agreed. Picking on newbies is horrible.