Can somebody finally do something against that troll, who calls himself runner_70?
He infests that part of the forum with nothing but hate. He can barely post anything without calling Lambert names or insulting other members of this forum.
When I asked him, what he was here for, he replied, that he wants to make all „Glamberts“ leave this forum. And in his mind, that includes everyone, who wants to discuss the collaboration with Lambert (unless you are against it).
That guy is online everyday (from what I see) and posts his comments under almost every new post by now. It gets worse and worse.
I would really appreciate it, if someone would finally stop him. Everybody has the right to be against the collaboration (I had been as well until 2015) and speak freely about that opinion. But what he does is giving this forum a bad reputation.
Are there any moderators/admins here?
I was admin in a prog forum years ago and everyday i checked the forum searching trolls and eliminate them.
It's an hard work i know but somebody must do that!
I have completely given up on the Q+AL section. It's simply impossible to have any kind of healthy discussion over there at all. runner_70 and a couple of other bitter users will take over any thread we create and turn it into an Adam-bashing fest, which provokes reactions from other fans and turns into a flame war.
I guess while those users are still around, the best way to talk about Q+AL is to use our personal accounts on social networks and keep it among friends. Oh well.
As I'm sure you're aware, Raf, someonewholikesadam and SweetCaroline are also quite culpable, flooding, spamming and provoking incessantly, pushing AL so aggressively that intense reactions by those who don't like AL are almost unavoidable. Blame rests with a handful of fanatics on both sides. Don't leave out one side simply because they happen to agree with your views on Q+AL.
Yes, but we surely can't equate enthusiastic fandom with incessant name calling.
I'm sure most people would agree that we'd rather see someone being annoyingly happy than hateful.
Naturally, but what I'm referring to is that the two sides have been egging each other on quite a bit, even if the one side does seem mostly to exist of a small handful of outrageously offensive Grand Inquisitors.
Naturally, but what I'm referring to is that the two sides have been egging each other on quite a bit, even if the one side does seem mostly to exist of a small handful of outrageously offensive wannabe-Grand Inquisitors.
The Wizard has pretty much explained how I feel about it. The AL fanboys and fangirls surely don't add much to the forum's quality, but they don't make the environment toxic. Not on their own, at least - though I do admit they'd do us all a big favor if they stopped feeding the trolls.
I'd rather have to ignore a bunch of links to Adam's Instagram than homophobic rants - especially on a Queen forum.
thomasquinn 32989 wrote:
As I'm sure you're aware, Raf, someonewholikesadam and SweetCaroline are also quite culpable, flooding, spamming and provoking incessantly, pushing AL so aggressively that intense reactions by those who don't like AL are almost unavoidable. Blame rests with a handful of fanatics on both sides. Don't leave out one side simply because they happen to agree with your views on Q+AL.
I don’t know about someonewholikesadam. I read almost daily in the Q+AL section, but that poster is barely ever there. The only one, who „spams“ is sweetcaroline.
Personally I find her completely harmless, because she only posts links and quotes. She’s enthusiastic and I haven’t seen her posting hateful comments without being called out. None of her posts are long and if you let her be, nobody would be harmed. She also never leaves that section of the forum. That’s my impression, after 2 years of reading here.
I find the posters, who always call her out and start endless arguments much, much more annoying. That would be the trolls and most of the time IronButterfly. She might come from a good (fan) heart, but whenever SweetCaroline posts, it doesn’t take long and she calls her out for it. And doesn’t stop and starts hateful tirades. Then Snifflese tries to step in and off they go for often several pages of fighting. Again and again and again. Both of them should stop that, because they make every thread unreadable in the end. Again, just my impression. I voiced that in front of them more than once, but hey: Why should they care, what other members of this forum think?
And then there are the trolls. But as long as the girls are fighting, the trolls keep their mouths mostly shut. Because their only aim is to stop any discussion about Q+ (one of them said so).
Conclusions: I would love to put all of them into a cage and throw the key away. A cage of fools. ;-)
Actually a mod is needed. Otherwise it would be wise to shut down the Q+ section. The way it is now , there is no discussion possible.