Jarwain Posted:

it’s like war:

people are fighting with dragons, and so then people start fighting back with other crap..

its the same cycle over, and over, and over again.

if you really want it to stop, it’s your problem. fight it yourself in how you want to fight it, but posting other crap will just make the dragon spammers spam more draginz…

Except almost everyone is complaining about dragon spam, so this is hardly just my problem. This applies to everyone.

And fine, no one wants to listen to sense, fine, I’ll just use adblock plus and the problem won’t apply to me anymore. The rest of you can fend for yourself.

DesdiPhoenix Posted:

Ok, fine. Drop the work thing. That STILL has nothing to do with the fact that people are trying to “teach” dragon spammers a lesson by spamming other ****. It doesn’t make any sense, because it’s just shows the dragon spammers that they’re getting to people, thus making them spam more.

It’s ONE person and he does that every few weeks or couple months or something. He spams a bunch of porn gifs in threads. The world doesn’t revolve around the latest children’s fad.

DesdiPhoenix Posted:

Ok, fine. Drop the work thing. That STILL has nothing to do with the fact that people are trying to “teach” dragon spammers a lesson by spamming other ****. It doesn’t make any sense, because it’s just shows the dragon spammers that they’re getting to people, thus making them spam more.

Here’s the thing about spamming, and all trolling in general, people do it because it’s fun for them. Annoying the heck out of people over the internet is fun. But annoying the heck out of someone who annoyed you first is even more fun, and satisfying. If you really don’t like spamming, the only ways to stop it are to either get the rules changes so its prohibited or just ignore it as you said, but some people would rather have more fun and start a spam war. Hence why I said you need more conviction instead of saying whether it’s right or wrong, because I know it’s a fun thing to do, but there will invariably be a backlash.

DesdiPhoenix Posted:

Except almost everyone is complaining about dragon spam, so this is hardly just my problem. This applies to everyone.

And fine, no one wants to listen to sense, fine, I’ll just use adblock plus and the problem won’t apply to me anymore. The rest of you can fend for yourself.

when i said you/your, i was talking about all the people who hate the dragon spamming…

DesdiPhoenix Posted:

Then delete all of the threads calling for dragons to be bannable should be removed. If people are going to spam other ****, then there would be no reason to ban dragons. I’m not saying that this is right or wrong, I’m just saying that this is not necessary for people to get what they want. I personally don’t care about dragons, and I adblocked everything else. So this no longer affects me, only everyone else.

I have never agreed with or disputed whether or not spamming dragons, porn, making dragons bannable, or anything else was the right thing to do, all of my comments were directed solely at you. Personally I also think that people are overreacting to this whole dragon thing, most of the people who want dragon spam banned from RP forums are people who don’t spam themselves, and don’t mind or at least accept that other kinds of spam are allowed there, but for some reason are especially irked by the dragon spam, which I think is just silly, however when someone who was spamming things for fun comes back and says they don’t want any more spam when it finally starts to annoy them wants to talk about stopping all of the spamming, I just cant keep my mouth shut about it. Especially when what they are complaining about isn’t any worse than what they were doing in the context of the rules, just something that happened to rub them in the wrong way. You aren’t even repentant about it, I would understand this thread if you were, but you specifically state that the only reason you want the spam stopped is because you’re getting too much flak for it. If you’re going to be a jerk online, at least know that people are not going to be happy about it.