#1 - May 7, 2011, 11:55 a.m.
We've all seen trolls, people who look for the slightest thing to argue about even if they themselves know that their wrong just to bring down someone else's morale and be the center of attention themselves, why do they do it? Probably because they lack attention in real life, so they crave it, even negative attention, in the online world.
Don't get me wrong there are times when it is proper to yell at someone because they did something really stupid..a well known example: Leeroy Jenkins, although it was just an internet stunt i'd be pretty pissed if someone did that in my group. THAT isn't trolling, now let me show you what an example of trolling is.
The other day I happened to come across a troll in my dungeon, you know, easy WOTLK heroic dungeons, their a piece of cake. Well our healer was a little under geared..and the tank wasn't that impressive either... unsurprisingly the healer died because the tank couldn't keep the ADDs off of him..well I decided that using my guild lvl 25 perk Mass resurrection (a guild perk that lets you resurrect whoever needs resurrecting within 100 yards, giving you a 10 minute debuff that basically says that you can't be rezzed from that for 10 minutes), the healer was completely fine with that, he said ty and moved on. But oh no, the party leader (some warrior DPS) decided that he would yell at me for using it when we have a shammen and a paladin, and I said so what? I wanted to use it, it's not that big of a deal. He said that I should only use it in "emergencies", which makes absolutely no sense, because one, Its NOT a Battle Rez, it works the same as ANY other rez power, (plus the 10 min debuff) so there would be no difference besides the fact that it doesn't use mana, and even if we were to wipe within ten minutes on a WOTLK heroic and I was the only one left alive because I feigned death and I COULDN'T rez the healer, like he said, we still have a paladin AND a shammen to rez. But oh no, before I could tell him that he decided to be a coward and put me on his Ignore list so I couldn't even say anything in response to defend myself.
And although it really didn't bother me at all, it just made me think he was an attention seeking idiot, he could have at LEAST had the decency to hear my argument before /ignoring me. I honestly don't understand why people want to be trolls, it's stupid. I mean what are we 8 year olds? Oh scratch that, 8 year olds who like to cuss alot because it makes themselves sound "fearful". Ooooooo, soo scary. But seriously. I think that ends my rant...damn...still scanning...those full scans take forever, but anyway, yeah. Think next time before you troll. If you want attention try TALKING to people, its really not hard.
and for those of you who actually went through the work of reading all of this, I applaud your ability to listen to someones bored rant. Cya in the game! Have fun. Don't let people get you down, because their probably fat 34 year olds who never got any attention growing up. And to those of you who do fit that catagory and aren't trolls, (not meaning anything mean by the fat part) bravo, you my friend are a good person. and you could probably make tons of friends unlike trolls whos only objective is to destroy. Alright that ends my rant, bye guys.
