I can't show you my best troll because yoozel deleted it. But I posted a thread in the halo reach forum where I posed as a player who had achromatopsia (aka true colorblindedness) and that I could only see in black and white and shades of gray. I said blue and red looked the same to me, so I often ended up betraying my teammates because I thought they were on the other team. I asked bungie to consider having a playlist for colorblind gamers that had a black team and a white team and call it BLACKS vs WHITES. I made it sound very convincing while subtly implying racial stereotypes. ("If I were on the white team and I saw a black guy stealing my vehicle, I would shoot him down.")

It caused a shit storm that lasted for 17 pages. People who fell for it showed their sympathies and people who saw I was trolling called me a racist. Then the people who felt sorry for me started attacking those who called me a troll. It was absolute chaos. This was in the days where the reach forum was so active, that threads would get pushed down within 5 minutes. But this stayed on the front page for a considerable time. If it got near the bottom, I would change the title to something attention grabbing "I LOVE SUCKING ON ELITE COCKS!" or "EXPLODING MUSLIMS ATTACK REACH!" for about a minute, then change it back.

In terms of replies, it isn't my most successful bait. The "Fee for anybody under 17" thread was far more successful, but it is still my favorite trollbait because of how clever the premise was. *pats self on back*

Holy shit, I would have loved to read the posts in that thread.

my only real troll thread

if you can even call it that

I remember I fell for that one pretty hard.

I'm mostly into rock, alternative rock, and classic rock (if that's even a standard category). There are certain pop songs that I like as well, but they're rare.

Ozzy
AC/DC
Breaking Benjamin
Audioslave
Linkin Park

I am for the idea, but would the new forum bring in that many threads? You might want to consider asking everybody by making a poll in The Flood.

Still there. Its in the options under my avatar. I think people can only see it on their selves. It brings up a message saying "Remove this message?"

Try to delete one of your posts and tell me what happens.

Who's gonna be that Master Ninja though?

Demonic of course.

Technically, the mods on this site have the powers the Master Forum Ninjas had on Bnet. They can permaban.

If we get more members and more mods are needed, some Forum Ninjas might be promoted to Master Forum Ninja and the current Forum Ninja rank would be nerfed as new mods filled the slots. But that's if we need it to happen.

Some corrections/confirmations:

1. Adding your gamertag has no effect on Trust titles.
2. The septagon for admins posting in threads won't be added, since we have a smaller member base and if it did happen, like... a third of all the threads would have the golden septagon.

How's the interface update coming along?

Going pretty well. I just got the icons from Focnr and I'm working on putting them in for mobile.

Pinned to keep people from asking about ranks.

Good work, Mr. Stark.

Technically, Sep7agon has a Destiny clan set up, so we could advertise in #Clans. That would bring in a lot of the Density people, though.

Favorite Nintendo game?

The Serious board is for religious, political, and other controversial subjects. Of course your opinion is allowed, and points of view that differ from the norm are expected; the rule you quoted is there to keep people from creating topics for the sole purpose of starting fights.

Not discussions or arguments. These are what a forum is about, so long as the arguments can stay civil and the members can refrain from attacking each other.

You might find this shocking, but people report threads in the Serious forum all the time. Just because someone reports it, doesn't mean it's going to get locked automatically.

So yes, you may report any thread you think is trolling or baiting. And yes, you may PM a mod if you are unsure about whether or not a topic would be trolling or baiting.

It seems like Tapatalk has all kinds of issues with the forum.

I've checked it out on the Tapatalk website, and it seems like this issue pops up every once in a while. The problem is in the app itself, which I have no control over, and the guys in the support forum on the Tapatalk website can't seem to figure out what's going on.

https://support.tapatalk.com/

Willing to give out the thresholds for the different negative ranks?

And it'd be fun to add a few negative ranks in between DeeJ and Muted.

Absolutely not going to happen. You'll never find out exactly how it works; only that it still involves Trust ratings.

Negative ratings are still slippery and very much under construction; there might be more, but there might not be. Muted (the lowest) won't be activated until I know the system isn't being exploited.

Why? The layout is my single favorite thing about the site.

It's a mystery.

I'll start PMing people one Bnet who seem like they'd be interested in an offsite.