getting rid of trolls

[AlphaTech]

I have had enough of gocyrus with his peecee ads in here. If this is approved by the god arn, I submit a poll to the Mac faithful... What should we do to 'him'???

Fry his drive?

Put up a mass block to all of his posts?

Only allow him to read, but not reply to any post?

Kick him off, never to be allowed back for ANY reason?

I am going with option 4, but that is just me.

[Beej]

Don't you think it's fun to have someone to flame?

[blackpeter]

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point. --Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Compensation" Essays: First Series)

[voicegy]

It's up to arn. Completely. Obviously, he hasn't ticked off arn enough to justify tossing him off, so heck with it. Ignore and go on with things.

[Timothy]

Personally...I get so myopic at times that I like to have someone around to present the other side of the story.

[Hemingray]

gocyrus is probably grinning his head off right now. You're just adding fuel to the fire.


Sheesh.

[mac15]

its creating controvercy
let it go for a while

I think he's BILL GATES in secret thought

[resm]

opposition on any level is healthy.

no opposition makes life boring....believe me I know all about that.....I live in Singapore :)

sometimes the Mac ohhhhhh this and the Mac ohhhhh that on this forum can become boring and unrealistic and is getting the taste of a religion.

so...a bit healthy opposition can't hurt as long as it does not become fanatism itself.

Dogmas.... no more ! :o

[rEd Eye]

A discussion site without differences of opinion would be like cartoons without violence......Booooring!
And besides,how would you manage to make youselves look better without having someone to flame?:D
Get with it!The human condition is such that if there is no conflict there is no reason to get involved.
And as I have witnessed on this site,most everyone here seems very eager to become involved in any inflamitory discussions.Joining in on the "trolling",so to speak.
So what's your problem?

[teabgs]

Hey hey hey. True it's good to have more then one side but...its a MAC RUMOR site. Not a PC forum. I wouldnt care if there was only a bad thing once in a while but nothing he posts is worthwhile to Apple Rumors. Also, we don't need him around to flame...we can find someone else like KingCobra (just a j/k no hard feelings).

Hecht! We could all take a week to be the butt of all jokes around here! We all know its not personal

[MacAztec]

Why dont we all just ignore him? I mean, it has to make him want to piss us off more when he sees threads like this. Just dont worry about it, and you will be ok:cool:

[jefhatfield]

he adds a little flavor to this forum, and a little reality

this isn't a mac sanctuary, cupertino is (maybe)

we are in the real world of pcs everywhere and gocyrus is what one may hear from the masses day in and day out...my job is not to convert people, but to enjoy macs

...but if someone is willing to listen, then i will speak (and i have been known to speak my peace here on these forums);)

[Taft]

Has anyone checked out his web page? Its a bit over the top.

I have enjoyed most of gocyrus' opinions even if he is quite pc-centric. But the last forum he started was just rediculously evil and obviously flamebait.

I still don't understand everyone's extreme hatred of him though. Maybe he posted some really bad stuff before I got here.

My question is, how does a pc-centric person have so much time to spend on Mac sites? WTF. I think he likes all of the attention we give his pc rants.

Half the problem is we don't ignore our annoyances.

Matthew

[blakespot]

Originally posted by Timothy
Personally...I get so myopic at times that I like to have someone around to present the other side of the story.

There is presenting the other side of the story and then there is infantile ranting. Most of us tend to dislike the latter, of which there has been a bit of a surge here lately, sadly.


blakespot

[Macmaniac]

I enjoy the occasional troll because its fun to prove how wrong they are!

[mischief]

I get real sick of thick-headed twits. I can see the differing viewpoints angle but gocyrus is over the top. You don't get to behave like that once you are over age 19. Besides, I can't make use of my Evil powers to thier fullest if it isn't in person.

[AlphaTech]

I wouldn't have even started this thread if he was simply posting opinions about peecee's or how they differ from the Mac. BUT, he posts ads for wintel crap too many times to just let slide. Then there was his latest about not hating him... all the things he said just made more people hate him.

Can't we all just get along???? *BANG* we can now... :D

[eyelikeart]

I'm just waiting for arn to close this thread! he he he....

I agree with blakespot here....

but I still have to say that u can't deny when certain people here act like @ssholes....

[jefhatfield]

i am a pc tech

servers are better left to pcs in most cases

huge animation via unix

business software, business apps

etc (and pcs are better for someone on a very limited budget...at least until apple comes out with a $399 dollar machine)

these i believe as facts

but i have an ibook, luckily

does that make me a troll? most dont mind gocyrus

[AlphaTech]

Do you post ads tooting peecee makers horns??? Announcing P-this and P-that?? If not, then you are not a troll.

By the way, I sort of agree about the server comment. Most of the time a peecee server is better, either because of the cost, or what the people maintaining them know. Also, it depends on the environment it is going into. If you are talking about a 90% or better Mac environments, where they don't need tons (or TB) of storage, then a Mac server COULD fit their needs. On the other hand, if you need something rack mounted that has gobs of storage, and you don't mind applying all the patches, updates, and hot-fixes to it, go with a peecee.

Some software, business side, runs better on the peecee, as much as I hate to admit it. That is why there are about 30 peecee's among the 250+ Mac systems where I work. We do have ONE Unix box that is a print server (set up for Mac's only, not peecee's).

I have both platforms at home. I use the TiBook daily, and when I feel like blasting away something, I power up the GAME peecee. The Mac does everything that I need to do, and does it well, and without crashing on me (thank you OS X :D). The peecee needs updates (alwasy 'critical' according to m$) pretty much every time I power it up. Then there are the several restarts between each update (can you say pain in the a$$?? I know you can). Some won't let you run with the others, more pain.

[mischief]

What makes him a Troll (the hill kind, not the bridge kind) is the tone of his posting. If this were a bar not a Forum gocyrus would get beaten up and thrown out every time he opened his mouth. What makes it worse is that he's a coward. We all know that he'd never act this way in person for exactly that reason so he mouths off in a place we can't get at him: here.

I think we need to add an option:Post his current IP as a signature. It'd be nice to "know where he lives".

[me hate windows]

All that GoCyrus would have to do is create a new name. He could fake his and all the other info that you have to put in. It's kind of hard to kick somebody off of an internet site, I am sorry to say. But anyone that says any ant-mac stuff should have his/her account frozen for a month or something like that. But all that I am saying is you can't kick anyone off, unless I am dumb and I just don't know how.

[mywar2000]

Alphatech IS gocyrus!:p

[AlphaTech]

Originally posted by mywar2000
Alphatech IS gocyrus!:p

Don't EVEN JOKE like that...:mad:

[PCUser]

As a PC hardware user, and a Linux user (that's a love/hate relationship... it's WAY better then Microsoft, but it still sucks... a monolithic kernel with drivers written by random software programmers...) who has to use Winbloze for gaming, I think I am solidly considered a "PC User".

However, even I find gocyrus's posts over-the-top, aggrivating, and just downright rude (not to mention the fact that he doesn't have his facts straight).

Unforuntately, this is the internet, so even if you did feel that you wanted to kick him off, he could spoof his IP and MAC, and you'd have no way of knowing was him. That's a pretty easy thing to accomplish, too.

[eyelikeart]

this is a Macintosh rumors website....we are all here for the same reason....to discuss Apple Computer, the Mac, software pertaining to the Mac, etc, etc...

this is not a PC website by any means.....so there should be no reason for someone to come on here and constantly push cr@p in our faces about shortcomings of the Mac when compared to the PC makers....

if we wanted that....we'd go to microsoft.com or some other site similar....

[AlphaTech]

I can't think of any way around someone coming back if they really wanted to. He could change his email address to something else, or get free accounts out the wazoo...

Maybe we could get some kind of guideline for posts, other then the ones already in place, to prevent the peecee ads.

I think pretty much everyone here knows that there is a p(n) that is (n)MHz/GHz out there and available, but most of us simply don't care. We are hard core Mac users that come here for tidbits of information, rumors, and to share information about Mac systems. We also like to help out fellow Mac users/fanatics/zealots :D. It can be fun reading the speculation about what will be announced at the next expo/event.

At least most of everyone else keeps on topic here (Mac based rumors/information). It's a shame that we have to tolerate an idiot like cyrus...

[Jookbox]

this thread's a troll thread, started by a troll.

[mischief]

I've used it both ways though here I figure it's closer to the Verb.

Trolls tend to drag their hooks through a Forum hoping some poor schmuck will latch on. It's an efficient way to catch Salmon as long as your in the Boat and not the Salmon.
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[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
this is a Macintosh rumors website....we are all here for the same reason....to discuss Apple Computer, the Mac, software pertaining to the Mac, etc, etc...

this is not a PC website by any means.....so there should be no reason for someone to come on here and constantly push cr@p in our faces about shortcomings of the Mac when compared to the PC makers....

if we wanted that....we'd go to microsoft.com or some other site similar....

with total respect of you as the top poster and great comtributor, i have to disagree on this one point

i have been at macrumors since the first week and signed up a month later and i am the oldest poster active on macrumors and one of the top posters...i am no yahoo commenting on business since i have been in business for myself way more than a decade and have two degrees mostly on the topic of business subjects as well as a high tech certification so i know IT and have been there three years, which is respectable since many techies never work a day in this field

here is what i have found imho...rumors on macrumors represent maybe one percent of the posts on this forum...most are comments and people just talking about other stuff, including pcs (even to the point where they thnk that they are better)

personally i think macs a better, but i like to hear the pc side and we must remember, microsoft (my boss) once owned over 10 percent of apple and they are or were the second biggest apps maker for macs in the world (with 10,000 apps companies/products making or developing stuff for mac in os x)

this is the farthest thing i have seen with my 700 posts and 1000s of visits a true blue rumor forum

if rumors are rumors...we have been extremely accurate and maybe we should call ourselves macfacts.com

apple tries, very badly. to keep a tight lid on things but this site flushes apple inc out every time...it's better than an enama and a six pack with a cigar:D