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Please vote for one of the above threads. Please note that you are not voting for the most annoying USER of all time, just the most annoying THREAD. Or the best thread, depending on how you see things. Links and recaps below


This poll will run for 7 days.


Please post and tell us what exactly you find so wonderful / horrible about the thread you're voting for.

Quote from: Cramulus on November 04, 2009, 02:03:16 AM
Thread: Why is the internet so fucking fascist?
Starring: I Am Not a Rhombus
Length: 47 pages
Link: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=14112.0
Notes: This may be where we first encountered the tempest known as I Am Not a Rhombus. It started as a discussion about whether or not people with Aspergers should be treated differently on the internet. The hand wringing did not stop for some time.


Thread: Hello again everyone! (massive TL;DR)
Starring: I Am Not a Rhombus
Length: 27 pages
Link: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=19300.0
Notes: The Rhombus Returns to tell us what terrible people we all are. Weighing in at 27 pages, this thread wasn't as prolonged as the original, but did get pretty out of control.

Quote from: Cramulus on November 04, 2009, 02:06:51 AM
Thread:     BIP- Just call me Nigger to my face.
Starring: The lamanite
Length: 28 pages
Link: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=13141.msg417208#msg417208
Notes: The Lamanite was an american indian who resented being treated like a second class citizen. What he never noticed was that nobody was treating him like a second class citizen. That is, until he decided that most of us should be killed so the land can return to balance. IIRC there was another thread before this one in which he flipped out at everybody. He flounced for a bit, and then returned with this gem of a thread, accusing us of being racist for having the word "Niger" in the latin "Black Iron Prison" logo. Later in the thread, he admitted his intent was to provoke somebody into calling him nigger. Nobody ever did. He eventually left.

Quote from: Cramulus on November 04, 2009, 02:24:01 AM
Thread:     A kLoKwErK kAoS
Starring: A kLoKwErK kAoS
Length: 37 pages
Link: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=11992.0
Notes: A Klokwerk Kaos really deserves his own hall of fame. Here is his debut thread, in which you will learn about his myspace page. You'll notice that he was sort of well received ... until about page 3 or so. His attempts to master and eventually masturbate this forum consumed everybody's attention for something like two months. Nobody's really sure when he switched gears and decided to waste everybody's time hardcore. It was at this point that the first PLEDGE was declared (not present ITT). For those who were there at the time, he remains one of the memorable trolls to ever post on PD.

Quote from: Cramulus on November 04, 2009, 02:27:50 AM
Thread:     Stirring up Trouble: Why Api is anti-MLK Day
Starring: Saint Aini
Length: 24 pages
Link: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=14989.0
Notes: I guess this is more of a drama thread than a troll thread. In this thread, we all learned something about race relations. Namely that aini is afraid of all black people because they (apparently) want to rape her.

Quote from: Cramulus on November 04, 2009, 02:39:55 AM
Thread:     SO, ARAFELIS: Trying to stir shit?
Starring: Arafelis
Length: 53 pages
Link: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=21100.0
Notes: I actually have no recollection of what this is about but it's 53 fucking pages long.



Thread: Pointless drama, hysteria and self-righteous whinging thread.
Starring: Daruko
Length: 28 pages
Link: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=16332.0
Notes: This is a split from some other thread. Actually it may be several splits. So it's a bit disjointed to read, but you do get some classic daruko spirals.

Quote from: Cramulus on November 04, 2009, 02:43:04 AM
Thread: Attn: TGRR, Nigel, and Faust?
Starring: Daruko
Length: 36 pages
Link: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=17135.0
Notes: IIRC - Daruko dropped an imagebomb, we discussed banning him, and then all sort of hilarity ensued

Quote from: Cramulus on November 04, 2009, 05:05:18 PM

Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on November 04, 2009, 03:08:48 PM
Thread:     Extract of DK fail thread.
Starring: Dead Kennedy
Length: 24 pages
Link: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=19893.msg658009#msg658009

yo, this was like tag team idiocy.  DK really is a pro. There were multiple waves of people who dropped into that thread, debated with him for a while, then threw their hands up in the air out of frustration and left the thread. Then the next wave would come in. DK managed to keep up with all of it, frustrating and nauseating everybody that interacted with him. It really is persistence that made him such an excellent troll. And that he'd produce a wall of text each time you replied to him.

Quote from: That One Guy on November 04, 2009, 03:11:22 PM
Don't forget the Taboo Soup (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=12841.0) thread from Lamanite! It was the combo of the BIP thread and the Taboo Soup thread that really made Lamanite one of our all-star trolls.

Quote from: Pterodactyl Handler on November 04, 2009, 06:56:14 PM
Thread:     BREAKING NEWS: Pterodactyls
Starring: Pterodactyl Handler X
Length: six pages of pure win
Link: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=13263.msg421666#msg421666
Notes: The Pterodactyl Handler, PD's evil supervillain, appears from time to time and makes outrageous demands of the wretched forumites which inhabit this wretched forum. If they fail to comply, he bumps ancient threads of suck and fail, or otherwise ravages and terrorizes Apple Talk. Bikaaaw!

Quote from: Slanket the Destroyer on November 05, 2009, 05:15:53 PM

Thread:     (random links)
Starring: Slanket the Destroyer
Length: 287 pages
Link: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=6621.0
Notes: Some jackass came to the forum one day and started crapspamming links.

If we were voting on the individuals it would be AKK.  His nuttery spread to multiple threads.  However, I think the Lamanite/BIP thread was the lulziest when looking it purely on the thread level. 

As far as I am concerned, nothing has ever surpassed AKK's thread. I just love how everyone was okay with him until realising how annoying he was being and calling him on it, which lead to him shitting all over the forum for months, with that thread at the centre of it all.

I mean, a few of those other "troll threads" were more like general shitfests and arguments than deliberate trolls, maybe with the exception of Lamanite. I don't think aini meant to turn the entire forum against her, for example. I wouldn't even call Daruko and Dead Kennedy trolls, they just whined a lot. I feel like AKK knew exactly what he was doing, especially near the end, and we were all falling for it. Even after inventing the pledge just for him, we went on replying to his troll posts. I hope he isn't reading this though, because if there was one thing we saw in AKK that was definitely a real part of him, it was his massive ego and I don't want him to take it as an invitation to come back. And anyway, I think he is pretty 4chan-ish now, judging from his forum, so he's probably not nearly as funny now as he was back then.

After long reflection, I had to choose IANAR's "fascist" thread over AKK.

Tough choice.

What was so great about AKK was that at first, it really was fail, but he gradually turned the tables on us. It's a good lesson for all of us that once someone's intent is to annoy, wasting our time with ANY sort of reply is really just giving them what they want. It's the classic PD.com paradox though -- what if we want to be annoyed?  :lol:

I'm not entirely sure DK wasn't intentionally stirring the hive of hornets, he seemed to have a lot of experience doing this before, (remember the ED page on him (http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Lovecrafty)?) albeit usually on the defensive. Sort of like IANAR, it seemed like he was compelled to post and couldn't keep himself from doing it.

The first IANAR thread was lulzy for that same unintentional reason. The second thread seemed sharper, like people knew what they were getting into in advance, and knew to hold it at arm's length. I do recall it being another one of those threads where I walked away from the computer and came back five minutes later to see the thread had grown by four pages.

Daruko had the same thing going - his threads were funny for sort of sad reasons. The reason they kept going was because the kid showed a little promise now and then, it made people care just enough to reply. There was hope that this would just be a rocky period before he came full circle --- but in the end, there was no other side to that circle.

The Lamanite's "just call me nigger" thread is a really strong contender, because he was really trying to troll us, and failed. Well I guess there was a 28 page thread, so it was a victory in some sense, but he failed to get us to show a really depraved and racist side he was searching for. In the end, it was very clear who was trolling whom.



I haven't cast my vote yet, still thinking about it.

oh man, I'm skimming through the [Daruko] "pointless drama  & whinging" thread (that title gets me every time), and there are such great lulz in here

like around page 8-10, Daruko is accusing Cain of deleting his posts. Cain links to the posts he thinks were deleted and posts a screenshot of the blank moderation log. Then Daruko accuses somebody of deleting a PM he thought TGRR sent him, in which TGRR allegedly threatens him. But of course, cannot find it. it's just straight paranoia.

Then he switches gears and posts this diatribe  (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=16332.msg525891#msg525891) at TGRR.

eventually it becomes the "Let's save the n00bs from TGRR" ramble, which prompted him to make this excellent blog post (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/blog/cain/if-you-recognize-the-elitism-currently-ruling-pd/). If you remember - that's when we started the Bunker (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=17844.msg586236#msg586236) to protect ourselves from the shrapnel when Daruko blows up the forum.

It was definitely a tough choice for me between IANAR, AKK and the Taboo Soup Lamanite thread. In the end, though, I had to go with AKK, because he really BELIEVED he was that awesome, right at all times, and deserved to be considered the coolest human being alive.

IANAR had that same level of conviction, but that thread to me was too much of a looping, repetitive mess, with everything going back to Assburgers in seemingly every post. With AKK, you had all SORTS of fail, from Luke claiming he had legally changed his name to AKK (hahaha ... no), to the whole nazis/military/fascism glorification posts, to the music promotion (and massive ego based on how "good" he thought he was at music). He gave a little bit of everything in that thread, from conviction with earnest intent to intentional trolling to the "social experiment" defense to us coining the "pledge" due to him just keeping at it from every angle no matter WHAT was thrown back in his face.

With Lamanite, the fact that he was really, blatantly trying to troll everyone came through, and we all took it and ran with it, although the Taboo Soup thread had some of what seemed like legitimate Lamanite philosophy/opinions and was IMO a better trolling thread than the more blatant BIP/Niger thread. 

Quote from: Ambassador KAOS
The nature of the multiverse is to be centered on all possibilities yet exist without dimension.

Quote from: Thurnez Isa on April 10, 2007, 07:11:16 PM

(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a139/ThornIs/myscreeen.jpg)

Re-reading "Attn: TGRR, Nigel, and Faust? (Daruko)" has once again made me hate a few people.

:)

 I just read the Pterodactyl Handler. That was a work of demented genius. Makes me want to become a supervillain.

I can't CHOOSE.

I'd like to nominate this thread for making us READ THIS SHIT.

:argh!:

I know more than I ever wanted to about the stupidity of humans now.

AKK, i wasn't even here for that and it is literally amazing.

Also his myspace is probably one of the funniest things I have ever seen.

I voted for IANAR's rant about internet fascism, but it was a close thing between that and "Taboo Soup".

'BIP - Just call me nigger to my face."

That thread was so damned funny it nearly got me fired.

Pterodactyls are FUCKING AWESOME.

(http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2008/07/16/pool.jpg)


BREAKING NEWS:
PTERODACTYLS




         Sweet Merciful Fuck!
                                            \
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x279/BlessedBesse/pterodactylattack1.jpg)

HOWEVER

the Pterodactyl Handler cheated
and the real winner is A kLoKwErK kAoS



                 Aww yeah!
                            \
(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb163/wompcabal/AKK47.png)





Now everybody say the magic words, "AKK PLEASE COME BACK"
                                            \
(http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xanatos-steeple.jpg)

That would be interesting, to say the least. 

bump for educational value and lulz

[announcer voice]
Attention mah fellow noobish brethren and ye who have yet to post anything whatsoever!

Over the past 2 days, you've been F5ing the latest pwn thread with equal parts wonder, glee and dread, just as I have, engaging in the best kind of voyeuristic object lesson.  You have facepalmed.  You've wtf'd.  Coffee met screen, and it was all good times.*  

But perhaps you've only found PD in the past few months and you've wondered, as I have, "what are all these past battles they keep referring to?  Did somebody actually post a thread with the words nigger to my face in the title?  And what the fuck's a DK?!"

Well here it be!  Your one-stop-spot to be a Mr. snoopy-pants!  You may have missed the legendary wars, but you too can lick the OP lings and learn more about life, the universe, and that assburgers kids magically know what you're *really* thinking!

You crave more?  Well, here's nearly 600 pages of it, kindly archived for our reading pleasure.  And for the Discordians, just think about how many times 5 goes into THAT.  So strap yourself in, put on your helmet and bookmark this thread: It may be a valuable document.  And use it wisely.

*except for that one time you threw your laptop out the window - that was sucky.
[/announcer voice]

slightly worried and wondering how much shit I might get for bumping a year old thread... and deciding this is entirely worth it.

http://www.webundies.com/wc0tpn.htm

 :lol:

Quote from: Cramulus on November 17, 2009, 11:00:36 PM

(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb163/wompcabal/AKK47.png)

MY WOMP OF THE AKK-47!

Ah, those were the days...

Nurse is learning well. We should make a noob reading list of freads.

@Nurse Rhizome: I don't know who you are or where you came from, but your username is awesome

I liked reading about the Wolf dude and the steam punk but actually industrial chick that I see from time to time in Kensington Market.

The chain dancer?

Quote from: Hoopla on April 13, 2010, 08:58:45 PM
The chain dancer?

Hahaha, holy shit! I forgot about that one. The chain-dancing (lol) furry tranny-wannabe. That had to be PD at its lulziest.
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=13928.0

I remember the Arafelis thread because it was going on when I first joined the forum.  It is certainly nowhere near the greatest troll thead, but it was amusing.  Basically TGRR accused Arafelis of being a troll from the basement (cellar?  Something underground and filled with annoying people)  He actually wasn't, but he responded by going to the basement to recruit trolls and Lumberjim came over and stalked Nigel for a while.

Oh man, Daruko...
"You've trolled too much, and now you can't tell the difference."

TGRR HAS GONE MAD WITH POWAH! 
:omg:

The best part of that particular Daruko rant you quoted Paes is where Daruko stated TGRR is mean and misanthropic and hateful to hide and disguise his real mean and misanthropic and hateful personality.

Quote from: Cain on April 13, 2010, 11:07:21 PM
The best part of that particular Daruko rant you quoted Paes is where Daruko stated TGRR is mean and misanthropic and hateful to hide and disguise his real mean and misanthropic and hateful personality.

Brilliant! It's like hiding a body in a graveyard.

The logic!  It circles in on itself to infinity!  Flawless, majestic, an unbreakable loop.

Quote from: h-town on April 13, 2010, 08:25:09 PM
I liked reading about the Wolf dude and the steam punk but actually industrial chick that I see from time to time in Kensington Market.

:lol: Goddamn, it's like everyone has seen/met Kai'enne at some point.

Quote from: Ten Ton Mantis on April 13, 2010, 09:04:37 PM

Quote from: The Good Reverend Payne on April 13, 2010, 11:02:52 AM

MY WOMP OF THE AKK-47!

Ah, those were the days...

That's actually a dragunov, which is not as funny.  :sad:

Also, this is one of the most easily trolled forums on the interwebs.

You question WOMP?

Quote from: Rainy Day Pixie on April 13, 2010, 11:30:52 AM
Nurse is learning well. We should make a noob reading list of freads.

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/list.html

Thanks for being ok with the bump.

Quote from: Faust on April 14, 2010, 12:31:41 AM
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/list.html

Oh hell yes!  :fap:  Frigging brilliant...  Thank you for taking the time to put that together!

QuoteRD Pixie:  Nurse is learning well.

I'm still probably going to be an ignorant jackass at some point, if these threads are any indication.  Already have at least once.  Still, it's good to know getting called on your bullshit's the norm here.

Quote from: Chryselephantine Shavenwolf on April 13, 2010, 08:07:07 PM
@Nurse Rhizome: I don't know who you are or where you came from, but your username is awesome

Thanks.   :)
(we don't need no stinking root-branch hierarchy!)


I've only been through 4 of the troll threads so far, but my favourite golden moment o' woo so far has been this:

Quote... at the same time I can feel very firmly what the other person is thinking, unlike most with AS, and it irritates me that they think like that...  They think everyone is in complete control and psychology is a bunch of New Age BS. I know because I can feel them thinking that...

So many flame wars seem to start with telepathy...

This thread is awesome, because we can talk about how lulzy the troll threads are without having to go back and read them again.

Quote from: LMNO on April 14, 2010, 01:00:07 PM
This thread is awesome, because we can talk about how lulzy the troll threads are without having to go back and read them again.

Why couldn't you have told me this 3 fucking hours ago?  :argh!:

Because I'm outlandish like that.


LOL

I've known and noted that about your nature. 

Gotta be AKK.
(http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/xx128/ChuckFukmuk/GIFS/AKK.jpg)

Just to be clear, I never meant my Anti-MLK rant to become a Troll Thread. My ideas of a Civil Rights Day/Rosa Parks day etc are still valid and I used my title mainly for SHOCK value... Wait a sec that does approach a troll bridge, perhaps

You're what?  Sorry, your thread isn't even a blip compared to the others. 

Quote from: 16/f/ca on November 09, 2009, 03:14:04 PM
I feel like AKK knew exactly what he was doing, especially near the end, and we were all falling for it. Even after inventing the pledge just for him, we went on replying to his troll posts. I hope he isn't reading this though, because if there was one thing we saw in AKK that was definitely a real part of him, it was his massive ego and I don't want him to take it as an invitation to come back.

Quote from: Cramulus on November 09, 2009, 03:24:05 PM
What was so great about AKK was that at first, it really was fail, but he gradually turned the tables on us. It's a good lesson for all of us that once someone's intent is to annoy, wasting our time with ANY sort of reply is really just giving them what they want.

I approve of this mess.   :lulz:

(http://cache.ohinternet.com/images/thumb/8/8d/Trolleyes.png/180px-Trolleyes.png)

As a self proclaimed expert piece of shit troll I do take issue with "BREAKING NEWS: Pterodactyls (Pterodactyl Handler X)" actually being considered a troll.  If everyone is enjoying the mirth, it's not exactly trolling, it's just straight lulz.  Trolling implies there is an identifiable mark, a sucker if you will... and yes, I did read it because it beat me out, but that's not the point.

There was no sucker here, it was just fun.  You could make the argument but it would be paper fucking thin.  If say, there was a massive image flood, I might go for it, but even then, this was still a jake not a troll because it was meant to be fun, and was received as such.

Getting down to the trolling science of it all:

Internet Troll /noun/ Somebody who posts in forums and messageboards for the sole purpose of eliciting a negative or lulzy response.

Lulz is laughter at someone else's expense (from the German concept of "Schadensfreude").

Additionally Lulz is said to be engaged in by Internet users who have witnessed one major economic/environmental/political disaster too many, and who thus view a state of voluntary, gleeful sociopathy over the world's current apocalyptic state.


sauce is oh internet.


Based on those definitions I move that "BREAKING NEWS: Pterodactyls (Pterodactyl Handler X)" is not actually a troll because the spirit was to make everyone laugh, even though "technically" users were exploited for shoopin' skillz.

Also, if you read all of that and are considering responding, please be aware that I have an Auntie and Uncle in Bel Air and that Will Smith is dead.

no, thats wrong.

Quote from: Faust on July 04, 2011, 09:28:07 AM
no, thats wrong.

Yeah, you have to realize that he's a troll that came HERE because we ran into him on a pagan forum (The Celtic Connection). You really have to go over and see what he did to the iddly Wiccans before making that call.


:lulz: :fnord: :kingmeh:

Quote from: Telarus on July 04, 2011, 09:39:02 AM

Quote from: Faust on July 04, 2011, 09:28:07 AM
no, thats wrong.

Yeah, you have to realize that he's a troll that came HERE because we ran into him on a pagan forum (The Celtic Connection). You really have to go over and see what he did to the iddly Wiccans before making that call.


:lulz: :fnord: :kingmeh:

I must have misunderstood, from the looks of it it was an alt for Dr howl, but then again I didn't pay too close attention.

If that's the case though (he was a former butt hurt target), This is pretty win.  He also gets points for style.

Quote from: Telarus on July 04, 2011, 09:39:02 AM

Quote from: Faust on July 04, 2011, 09:28:07 AM
no, thats wrong.

Yeah, you have to realize that he's a troll that came HERE because we ran into him on a pagan forum (The Celtic Connection). You really have to go over and see what he did to the iddly Wiccans before making that call.


:lulz: :fnord: :kingmeh:

Run into is a bit fortuitous sounding, we have had TCC under siege for years now. It was only a matter of time before people ran into him.

Quote from: Faust on July 04, 2011, 09:52:03 AM

Quote from: Telarus on July 04, 2011, 09:39:02 AM

Quote from: Faust on July 04, 2011, 09:28:07 AM
no, thats wrong.

Yeah, you have to realize that he's a troll that came HERE because we ran into him on a pagan forum (The Celtic Connection). You really have to go over and see what he did to the iddly Wiccans before making that call.


:lulz: :fnord: :kingmeh:

Run into is a bit fortuitous sounding, we have had TCC under siege for years now. It was only a matter of time before people ran into him.

Noted, I withdraw my stupid objection yet am noting for the record that it was an obvious troll and was one of the only posts I've received any constructive and legitimate feedback on.  Oh internet!  You crazy cat!

Crazy obvious trolls are the best kind, especially on pagan forums when the admins are so conditioned to accept stupid things unconditionally.

Quote from: DANGEROUS DOPE FIEND on July 04, 2011, 10:17:24 AM
Crazy obvious trolls are the best kind, especially on pagan forums when the admins are so conditioned to accept stupid things unconditionally.

I actually just read a post in the quotes Kain posted about trying to explain that magic doesn't work, I lol'd (I assume it's from there).  Please do send an invite next time someone has a party over ther.

Are you guys saying PH is a troll? :cry:

Frankly, I'm offended that I haven't been recognized as the best PD troll evar.

Because I've been posting insincerely this whole time.

Quote from: Cainad on July 04, 2011, 05:27:18 PM
Frankly, I'm offended that I haven't been recognized as the best PD troll evar.

Because I've been posting insincerely this whole time.

Just you wait till you all die and don't go to the awesome afterlife I've been promising you all this time.

I declare I'm the best troll.

Everyone please post evidence proving you are the most insincere.

Quote from: Ambassador KLOK KAOS on July 04, 2011, 08:39:54 PM
Everyone please post evidence proving you are the most insincere.

When I troll, I'm sincere as hell.

Sincere trolling is the best kind.

Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 04, 2011, 08:40:28 PM

Quote from: Ambassador KLOK KAOS on July 04, 2011, 08:39:54 PM
Everyone please post evidence proving you are the most insincere.

When I troll, I'm sincere as hell.

Saying that sounds too sincere.  You are under investigation.

Quote from: DANGEROUS DOPE FIEND on July 04, 2011, 09:24:32 PM
Sincere trolling is the best kind.

Hell, yeah.  When I'm trolling, I pick a position and I BELIEVE it for the duration of the troll.

Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 04, 2011, 09:48:02 PM

Quote from: DANGEROUS DOPE FIEND on July 04, 2011, 09:24:32 PM
Sincere trolling is the best kind.

Hell, yeah.  When I'm trolling, I pick a position and I BELIEVE it for the duration of the troll.

This is the only way to roll.

I'm more aloof then insincere.

I'd like to nominate this thread (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=29610.0), for the greatest troll thread of all time. It is very subtle, but you soon get sucked in.

Bumping all of these for Peanut Gallery.