Crime & Punishment

This thread comes up on almost a weekly basis. In fact, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a nerf posting thread in the first 2 pages on this forum section. Almost every single one of them goes like this:

1. OP posts a post with a new (lol) idea that always boils down to some variation of the following:
- "There's a big meanie who is sitting in my thread and not doing anything, but I don't know where he is and I can't ever just go to the next thread. I can't find said meanie and even though I know that he's probably at work and poses no threat at all, I wont do anything in my thread that I absolutely can't leave ever because he might not be at work and I might get trolled. CCP please stop the meanie from being able to do nothing to me because he's probably at work"

2. Shiptoast gets trolled because its been done literally to death. This horse has been beaten so hard and so often that it's little more than a memory of a memory of a red smear on the grass, and yet it STILL WONT DIE! In fact it's been done so many times that this particular horse is now undead; even if it does die, it will still be remembered and parodied.

3. Someone comes along and suggests that AFK posters can't hurt you, because they are, by their very definition, AFK. No one ever got trolled by someone who ISN'T AT THE KEYBOARD.

4. Someone else comes along and points out that while the poster might be AFK, he might not be, and so we have Schroedinger's Troll Post. The poster who might be AFK... but he might not be as well, and you will only know for sure when he trolls. (Yes, I know this isn't how the cat works)

5. Someone else comes along and suggests that you use NPC alt. Or man up and post on your main. Heaven forbid you have to actually fight to defend your ideas.

6. A further person comes along and suggests that the problem isn't posting AFK in your thread that you can't possibly leave ever, but that you KNOW that the person is AFK in your thread... and perhaps NPC alts should be removed and if you knew the troll was in your thread, you wouldn't be worried about shiptoasting.

7. Then another person pokes their head in and complains about something irrelevant, and IF YOU CHANGE IT THEN IM QUITTING FOREVER AND NO YOU CAN'T HAVE MY STUFF!

8. Someone asks if they can have 7's stuff.

This thread comes up on almost a weekly basis. In fact, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a nerf posting thread in the first 2 pages on this forum section. Almost every single one of them goes like this:

1. OP posts a post with a new (lol) idea that always boils down to some variation of the following:
- "There's a big meanie who is sitting in my thread and not doing anything, but I don't know where he is and I can't ever just go to the next thread. I can't find said meanie and even though I know that he's probably at work and poses no threat at all, I wont do anything in my thread that I absolutely can't leave ever because he might not be at work and I might get trolled. CCP please stop the meanie from being able to do nothing to me because he's probably at work"

2. Shiptoast gets trolled because its been done literally to death. This horse has been beaten so hard and so often that it's little more than a memory of a memory of a red smear on the grass, and yet it STILL WONT DIE! In fact it's been done so many times that this particular horse is now undead; even if it does die, it will still be remembered and parodied.

3. Someone comes along and suggests that AFK posters can't hurt you, because they are, by their very definition, AFK. No one ever got trolled by someone who ISN'T AT THE KEYBOARD.

4. Someone else comes along and points out that while the poster might be AFK, he might not be, and so we have Schrodinger's Troll Post. The poster who might be AFK... but he might not be as well, and you will only know for sure when he trolls. (Yes, I know this isn't how the cat works)

5. Someone else comes along and suggests that you use NPC alt. Or man up and post on your main. Heaven forbid you have to actually fight to defend your ideas.

6. A further person comes along and suggests that the problem isn't posting AFK in your thread that you can't possibly leave ever, but that you KNOW that the person is AFK in your thread... and perhaps NPC alts should be removed and if you knew the troll was in your thread, you wouldn't be worried about shiptoasting.

7. Then another person pokes their head in and complains about something irrelevant, and IF YOU CHANGE IT THEN IM QUITTING FOREVER AND NO YOU CAN'T HAVE MY STUFF!

8. Someone asks if they can have 7's stuff.