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[–]Mnemonic 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

Trolling is never encouraged as it is by definition retarded.

[–]bobbobbybob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

That's a false statement. Retardation is a mental deficiency, trolling in its many forms maybe comedy, abuse or just socially inept, but it is not retarded.

[–]Mnemonic 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/retarded

Socially inappropriate or foolish.

[–]bobbobbybob 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

Offensive Slang

Thats great. I think we've reached a point where whatever wrongs my inoffensive and subtle trolling represents is totally outclassed by your deliberate insults.

call it quits?

[–]Mnemonic 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

It's not my fault that somehow you manage to flip things over to personal attacks on you instead of reading and understanding comments the way they are supposed to: unless you somehow deem yourself to be 'always' trolling I never insulted you. I just spoke truth about the act of trolling being a retarded act by definition and not something to be encouraged:

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/trolling

To post inflammatory or irrelevant material on (an electronic forum) to provoke responses.

Doesn't help the debate, if you want to debate from a different perspective do the old 'To be the devil's advocate' or be ' what if I was such and such' . The mainstream media is already filled with trolls and you're accepted here without having to be one.

[–]bobbobbybob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

So it is my fault that people insult me, because it is my responsibilty to interpret peope's words as they intended ?

But the people insulting me have no responsibility to interpret my words as I intended?

that's an egregious double standard.

When I said 'troll', i meant that I posted something that I didn't necessarily believe, but that had been represented in other places by other people as a possibility. On this very site, no less, by several people. It was a theory that I knew IamredBeard wouldn't like.

It wasn't irrelevant, it wasn't rude, it wasn't hurtful, and it was only inflamatory because IamRedBear is so unstable and prone to insulting me at every opportunity.

Perhaps you need to stop and think about that for a little bit.

There was already no debate to be hurt.

IamRedBeard has decided that he never has to do anything but insult me, and somehow no one is taking him up on that.

[–]Mnemonic 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

So it is my fault that people insult me, because it is my responsibilty to interpret peope's words as they intended ?

But the people insulting me have no responsibility to interpret my words as I intended?

I did not say that, but you may surely believe I said that. Reading Comprehension is a thing, a responsibility? I'm not sure, but I can point out errors in arithmetic, so why not in reading comprehension?

I clearly stated I only read your 'I trolled you' confession and that I reacted to that... That's where you started defending your trolling and me condemning trolling overall.

and somehow no one is taking him up on that.

Maybe you should have done that instead of trolling?

[–]bobbobbybob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

you said:

It's not my fault that somehow you manage to flip things over to personal attacks on you instead of reading and understanding comments the way they are supposed to

i said:

So it is my fault that people insult me, because it is my responsibilty to interpret peope's words as they intended ?

Ah. I misunderstood. I thought when you said "flip", you were talking about other people going from debate to say things like "don't be retarded", or <insert any of IARB's endless personal insults> was the 'flip', and was my fault, but instead you are saying that people straight up insulting me is just ok and i'm apparently reading it wrong when I take it as insulting. Right?

I clearly stated I only read your 'I trolled you' confession and that I reacted to that

It is about time you corrected that oversight, since you are attacking me with very little understanding of the overall situation.

Its a bit like blaming the victim, for striking out after being beaten up.

[–]Mnemonic 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Ah. I misunderstood.

Yes and yet again you spin my words into a narrative that places you as some sort of victim instead of comprehending what I mean.

It is about time you corrected that oversight, since you are attacking me with very little understanding of the overall situation.

So you weren't confessing to trolling? And now I'm attacking you?

Its a bit like blaming the victim, for striking out after being beaten up.

Hey, it's not hard to understand what I meant, you keep misinterpreting my words to spin some sort of victim narrative; cool.

[–]bobbobbybob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

So let's leave the arguing about when insults are not really insults, since I can tell that you want to consider yourself above that.

How about the second part of what I wrote? The bit where you inform yourself.