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Solid Sonic posted...

Have you ever been modded for telling a harsh truth as "trolling?"

No, because they don't generally do that.

They do, however, tend to mod people for saying things they think are true, but in an assholish or confrontational way, which pretty clearly makes them come across more like they're just trying to be a dick than it does an honest statement of fact.

If you find you keep getting modded for saying things, you might want to reevaluate yourself and how you present your opinions. Maybe, just maybe, you're being a lot more abrasive than you need to be and are pissing people off enough to keep marking your posts to retaliate.



SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

It's usually marked as offensive. Though the mod who issues it can never justify how.

To be fair, if the mods see it in the mod queue at all it means someone else marked it as offensive, which by definition kind of means it might be offensive, because it apparently offended someone enough to mark you for it.

The real dispute is whether or not a reasonable person should find something offensive, but considering how subjective that is, the fact that you don't personally find it offensive doesn't mean that it isn't, or can't be, or even that you're presenting it in a way that makes it offensive when it otherwise might not be.

But again, the thing people here never seem to understand (especially the trolliest posters who are always complaining about how persecuted they are) is that HOW you say something is just as important as WHAT you say. When someone comes across like an insulting abusive asshole, people are going to treat them like an insulting abusive asshole, and they probably shouldn't be surprised when they get modded.

Present your opinions in a less confrontational, less acerbic way, and you'll be amazed to discover you stop getting modded as much.

Also, it helps a lot to avoid the sort of boards where rampant shit-slinging is commonplace (ie, never, ever go to the Politics board). But that's a truism on pretty much every site on the Internet, honestly.
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