Gentlemen: Do not feed the trolls!

This thread makes my eyes bleed.

Make fun of the post if you want, mark the comments "troll" where required, and move on. Engaging a troll who can't even create a proper title for his "post" does little for the site. Let's get back to some real discussions.

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Duly noted

My bad, I got a little carried away there.

by Mark Himmelstein on Apr 30, 2009 1:08 AM EDT reply actions

Man, I take one day off and I miss all the fun

Like anonymous said in the other post, what is happening to the FanPosts? Is WFAN sending traffic our way? Can we stop them from doing so?

by BobbyV_Incognito on Apr 30, 2009 2:05 AM EDT reply actions

yeah what did you guys like, just get the interwebs?

i can’t believe the response we gave the guy

I.M. Forme
"When you get yourself into trouble is when you feel you have to do something, and then you get yourself in trouble." --Omar Minaya

by itsmetsforme on Apr 30, 2009 3:29 AM EDT reply actions

Wow

Now I don’t feel so bad about spending half the day in the hospital. There should be a special rule about using the word ‘clutch’ when talking about baseball – like you have to prove that you are under 14 and no one responding can be over 14. I mean, if clutch meant anything at all, David Ekstein would get paid 30 million a year to be a player manager until he was 60.

"The people of Houston are spending money like oil's selling at $40 a barrel."

by IanB in MD on Apr 30, 2009 3:40 AM EDT reply actions

i'm kinda surprised no one gave him that contract, actually

sounds like a good deal to me.

When asked why I was a Mets fan, I responded, "pain is my lifeblood."

by wrightHOF on Apr 30, 2009 5:32 AM EDT up reply actions

sure, Extiny's value is really incalculable

The hustlegrit-per-dollar ratio would still be off the charts.

by anonymous on Apr 30, 2009 8:33 AM EDT up reply actions

wow, Scotty is up over 200 comments?

by JoshNY on Apr 30, 2009 8:48 AM EDT reply actions

I like how the title of his fanpost is "Scotty"

“Stop that train, I wanna get off. My baby is leaving me now.”

2009 Mets: maybe its the Phillies turn to have a terrible bullpen?

by Greenpoint Ian on Apr 30, 2009 9:59 AM EDT up reply actions

In the future

we should just refer to trolls as “Scotty.”

'Oh yes, I know all about that duty-of-a-citizen stuff. It doesn't go. There are exceptions to every rule, and this was one of them. When a man risks his liberty to come and root at a ball-game, you've got to hand it to him. He isn't a crook. He's a fan.'

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Apr 30, 2009 9:01 AM EDT reply actions

Done and done

by Eric Simon on Apr 30, 2009 9:12 AM EDT up reply actions

the troll theme song can be

‘Scotty doesn’t know’

HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.

by kendynamo on Apr 30, 2009 9:24 AM EDT up reply actions

Gentlemen: Do not feed the Scotty!

by JoshNY on Apr 30, 2009 11:13 AM EDT up reply actions

you can say that post was Scottyesque!!

by Endys Game on Apr 30, 2009 12:27 PM EDT up reply actions

i remember many Scotty's in Where the WildTHings Are

Isn’t there a Scotty who lives under the bridge?

Don’t Scotty for compliments!

I.M. Forme
"When you get yourself into trouble is when you feel you have to do something, and then you get yourself in trouble." --Omar Minaya

by itsmetsforme on Apr 30, 2009 1:30 PM EDT up reply actions

Bottom line

Never argue with an idiot. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

by Eric Simon on Apr 30, 2009 9:13 AM EDT reply actions

Agreed

But in the scotty case, just for the record, I feel we successfully made him feel like the idiot he was, and that’s what he was more than anything, just some dumbass whose primary source of Mets info was WFAN, but not a complete jerk.

by Mark Himmelstein on Apr 30, 2009 6:05 PM EDT up reply actions

Mission Accomplished!!!

But overall, agreed with Eric. I posted one response, was surprised at a timely and coherent response, and thought I could convince him otherwise. But of course, I had no idea he was a trolling Yankee fan, and before I knew it we were at 200 comments. Meh.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Apr 30, 2009 6:53 PM EDT up reply actions

I never opened that thread until just now

I assumed it was about the upcoming heretical non-canon “Star Trek” abomination and shunned it as all right-thinking people should.

by hotspur on Apr 30, 2009 9:23 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs

+1,000,000,000

Thank you. SIMON PEGG IS NOT AND WILL NEVER BE SCOTTY.

by anonymous on May 1, 2009 6:46 PM EDT up reply actions

I've noticed that we've gotten more traffic this year

And that most of the new traffic is terrible. In the past, we’d bicker with Zablanc about Beltran, but that would be it (and Zablanc is a pretty reasonable guy when it comes to everything else but Beltran). Now we’ve got these clowns posting about how David Wright (!!!!) sucks. I recall Wright having a crappy April in 2007 and still finishing the season with phenomenal numbers and what should’ve been his first MVP.

I texted this to a Phillies fan friend of mine yesterday: any Mets fan who doesn’t want Wright on the team should be forced to have sex with David Eckstein. That is all.

2009 Mets: maybe its the Phillies turn to have a terrible bullpen?

by Greenpoint Ian on Apr 30, 2009 9:55 AM EDT reply actions

I don't know if this is the specific cause.

But I’m pretty sure SBN Nation has some sort of contract/affiliation or something with yahoo sports now and they link to the SB team blogs on their team pages. I personally blame all the fail on them.

by Gina on Apr 30, 2009 11:21 AM EDT up reply actions

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAHOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (shakes fist)

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Apr 30, 2009 11:59 AM EDT up reply actions

If I may

I didn’t hear about this site until Yahoo forced it down my throat and to be honest, I’m glad they did. Before Yahoo pimped this up, I didn’t think reasonable mets fans existed on the internet until I read the posts here and began crying with laughter because of the comments. Don’t kill all the Yahoo guys just because some idiots decided to post Wright should get traded, the bullpen is terrible and the scotty crap yesterday because they wanted to kick guys when they are down. Give some of us a chance.

Besides, after the mets beat on the philly and brave pitching, the trolls will go away cuz they’ll start ripping on them!

by meigs1414 on Apr 30, 2009 3:46 PM EDT up reply actions

That's a fair point.

But I’d say rational fans brought to this site are outweighed by irrational ones at least 3:1. But still, I agree on all counts.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Apr 30, 2009 4:47 PM EDT up reply actions

I thought you were going to say "crying with happiness"

I got here from metsblog, and lord, it was a relief.

by SupT on Apr 30, 2009 5:00 PM EDT up reply actions

It's most likely the biggest contributor

We just have to do a better job, as administrators and collectively as a community, of raising the intellectual bar, in part by encouraging a higher level of discourse, and in part by discouraging/openly mocking/outright banning thoughtlessness, stupidity and impertinence.

by Eric Simon on Apr 30, 2009 12:41 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs