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post #1 of 231
8/15/08 at 6:24pm
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Is it just me or has there been a surge of trolling on the HTF as of late?
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post #2 of 231
8/15/08 at 7:28pm

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Interesting thread, with no examples...OK...

I guess i have seen some difference of opinion. I have seen a lot of new people. Quite a few people i might assume are teens, that have nothing better to do than stir the pot, piss off people.

Nah, nothing going on here. Its all in your mind.
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post #3 of 231
8/15/08 at 7:50pm

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Haven't noticed it. Although your post is possibly an example of it...
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post #4 of 231
8/15/08 at 8:10pm

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Other than that dude who welshes on Dark Knight bets, not really.
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post #5 of 231
8/15/08 at 8:30pm

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Hey, I just learned something thanks to this thread. I never knew it was "welshes" or that it was derived from Welsh. Huh. Oh and what's trolling?
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post #6 of 231
8/15/08 at 8:43pm

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Well there was that guy Floyd or whoever, posting mostly in the hardware areas. He never made an upgrade that I would have chosen to afford, and the result was never less than outstanding and amazing.
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post #7 of 231
8/15/08 at 9:16pm

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Originally Posted by DavidJ
Hey, I just learned something thanks to this thread. I never knew it was "welshes" or that it was derived from Welsh. Huh. Oh and what's trolling?

It'll probably turn out I insulted someone with that.
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post #8 of 231
8/15/08 at 9:55pm
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I'm not going to name names, but some of the posts look like obvious attempts with a thread or two being closed recently. It just seems there have been more attempts than usual, that's all.

And there's no way I could be trolling, I love silica and salsa too much! :-)
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post #9 of 231
8/15/08 at 10:07pm

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Has it been in specific areas, Clinton? I've not noticed an uptick in locked threads in AHL. The other areas I loiter in also seem safe from trollish talk.
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post #10 of 231
8/15/08 at 10:11pm
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Re: Trolling

HT Hardware and associated hardware forums.
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post #11 of 231
8/16/08 at 4:37am

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I noticed a couple, but not an absurd amount.
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post #12 of 231
8/16/08 at 6:16am

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Not from where I sit, no.

M.
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post #13 of 231
8/16/08 at 8:03am

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Here is a brand new one: http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/...3-post200.html

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H
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post #14 of 231
8/16/08 at 10:03am

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I remember one newbie getting a little unruly in one of RAH's Blu-ray threads a couple of months ago......fun times. Haven't seen anything else notable though.
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post #15 of 231
8/16/08 at 12:05pm

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Originally Posted by Holadem
I guess people should define what they mean by "trolling". To me, that doesn't qualify.

M.
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post #16 of 231
8/16/08 at 3:01pm

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Originally Posted by Michael Reuben
I guess people should define what they mean by "trolling". To me, that doesn't qualify.

M.

I agree. "Trolling" is usually defined as "trolling for flames" - posting something solely for the purpose of provoking others to an angry or outraged response. Arguing the relative merits of various Olympic sports doesn't strike me as qualifying. Although I suppose there could be some really milltant badmitten afficiandos out there who might disagree.

Regards,

Joe
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post #17 of 231
8/16/08 at 7:58pm

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I think that Bose speakers are by far the best speaker brand there is!!



No I haven't seen any trollers.
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post #18 of 231
8/16/08 at 8:01pm

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"I think that Bose speakers are by far the best speaker brand there is!!"

That's probably not trolling, but around these parts those sure are fightin' words.
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post #19 of 231
8/16/08 at 10:00pm
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Although I suppose there could be some really milltant badmitten afficiandos out there who might disagree.

That's even funnier because I watched Dodgeball the other day.
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post #20 of 231
8/16/08 at 10:57pm

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I don't remember seeing any trolls, just a few elves and wizards.
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post #21 of 231
8/17/08 at 7:52am

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Just feeding my curiosity - is badmitten the same sport out here we know as badminton?


Cees
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post #22 of 231
8/17/08 at 7:58am

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Originally Posted by Cees Alons
Just feeding my curiosity - is badmitten the same sport out here we know as badminton?


Cees
Cees, you of all people should know about bad mitten! I bet they have TV commercials for it all the time in Holland!
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post #23 of 231
8/17/08 at 7:58am

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Originally Posted by Cees Alons
Just feeding my curiosity - is badmitten the same sport out here we know as badminton?
It's a common misspelling, as was pointed out several posts later in the Olympics thread. (I'd probably make the same mistake, as it's not a word I use more than once every ten years or so. )

M.
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post #24 of 231
8/17/08 at 8:57am

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Originally Posted by Cees Alons
Just feeding my curiosity - is badmitten the same sport out here we know as badminton?


Cees

Silly me. I just followed the spelling of the original poster, on the theory that people who care enought about the sport to argue about it would know how to spell the name. Regardless of the spelling, however, I'm pretty sure it is pronounced, in English, with a "mit" sound in the middle, rather than "mint".

Joe
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post #25 of 231
8/17/08 at 9:22am

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Cees, you of all people should know about bad mitten!
(I suppose a bad mitten is a normal glove that encases all fingers separately?)

Of course I wasn't trolling!


Cees
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post #26 of 231
8/17/08 at 9:52am

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I'm pretty sure it is pronounced, in English, with a "mit" sound in the middle, rather than "mint".
Could that be US English?

The game is named after the village of Badminton, England (South Gloucestershire). I always assumed the "n" was audible. At least that's the way we pronounce it (in Holland: doesn't really count, of course).


Cees
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post #27 of 231
8/17/08 at 10:03am

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The game is named after the village of Badminton, England (South Gloucestershire).

I did not know that.

OTOH, Worcestershire sauce is named after Worcestershire in England. When's the last time you heard anybody ask for "Wor-ses -terr-shy-er" sauce? The town of Worcester, MA in the U.S. is pronounced, approximately, "Wooster". (And then there's Pontefract Castle in England, which is properly called "Pomfrey Castle" - although I'm told that in recent years tour guides have started pronouncing it as spelled as a concession to confused tourists. ) The relationship between spelling and pronounciation in English is more like a casual hook-up than a committed marriage.

Regards,

Joe
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post #28 of 231
8/17/08 at 10:04am

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Originally Posted by Cees Alons
Could that be US English?

The game is named after the village of Badminton, England (South Gloucestershire). I always assumed the "n" was audible. At least that's the way we pronounce it (in Holland: doesn't really count, of course).


Cees
The "n" should be audible in the U.S. English pronunciation of Badminton.

But then again, this is the country that is filled with people who spell out "could of" and "would of" instead of the contractions of "could've" and "would've". We also pronounce the tennis tournament as "Wimbelten". And, of course, who can forget our fearless leader and his attempts to keep "nuke-u-lar" weapons away from "those folks".
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post #29 of 231
8/17/08 at 10:25am

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Now you guys are clearly trolling!
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post #30 of 231
8/17/08 at 10:39am

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I know. And I wouldn't have raised the question in another thread.

(No comment, Carlo! )


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The town of Worcester, MA in the U.S. is pronounced, approximately, "Wooster".
In the UK too.
And Gloucester => 'glos-ter'. Not to mention Cholmondeley => 'chum-lee' (or St. John => 'sin-jin').
I guess it's related to the bi-lingual inheritage (Saxon and Latin/Norman).


Cees
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