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lightningandsnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 04:57 PM
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Spammers, Illiterates, Perverts, and Trolls, or why I love DU.
Other than the odd inflammatory comment, we don't have much of that on here.

I am sick of the people from certain other forums. People who don't know how to spell or form a proper sentence. People who constantly ask me if I want to "cyber". People who tell me, "You're going to hell", "I hope you get shot", "Why am I arguing with a 15-year-old", or "NOOB!" People who spam-bomb the boards with "you just got pwned"!

That is all. I love you all - well, most of you, anyway. :-)
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 04:58 PM
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1. ahem, i don't think we've met...
:evilgrin:
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 05:00 PM
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2. "You're going to hell"
:evilgrin:

But, then again, so am I!
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 05:01 PM
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3. epic fail
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lightningandsnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 05:03 PM
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4. Why thank you.
At least you can spell. :-)
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 05:04 PM
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5. WANT TO BUY TABLETS FOR P3NI5 3NL4RG3M3NT???
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puerco-bellies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 05:51 PM
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6. I'm assuming that pwned is a verb..
What the hell does NOOB mean. Damn I'm getting old.
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lightningandsnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 06:19 PM
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7. it means newbie,
but it's kind of more insulting. It's become a generic insult, like "Idiot" or "Moron".
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 07:38 AM
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20. One of the guys in my area at work is an avid WoW player... and he actually uses that in casual
conversation. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard him yell "(*&%ing Noob!". :)
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Nevernose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 09:25 PM
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16. Strangely enough, "pwned" only seems to exist in the past tense.
Edited on Tue Oct-16-07 09:26 PM by Nevernose
One does not say, "I shall travel via the Internet to my favorite gaming site and pwn a noob today."

Instead, one says, "dOOd, u wuz jst PWNED!1!1!1"

And if that last example sentence wasn't frightening enough, serious linguistic studies have been conducted on the emerging language of "l33t." I die a little inside every time I type that, but it's true.
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 06:29 PM
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8. Welcome to DU...
:hi:



NOOB


:P





:hide:
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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 06:32 PM
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9. hey
welcome to DU

BTW
I'm a pev.....


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

lost
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 07:49 PM
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15. a double pev
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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TK421 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 06:38 PM
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10. Where else have you encountered this?
I used to encounter it quite a bit when I wandered through AOL message boards ( and back then, I had quite a bit of fun with stupid people, and tortured many ) but at least here, they seem to be noticed very quickly and disposed of quickly....

Never seen any spam on here...but perverts....what's your problem with that? just kidding

Trolls are everywhere...beware, they suck the marrow out of goats
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lightningandsnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 07:28 AM
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18. A lot of places,
Especially on high-traffic boards, or ones where the possible topics of discussion are overly broad.

For example, I signed up for GoLiveWire, which is a teen-focused message board, and within 3 minutes of my first post, someone PM'ed me saying "What do you think about sex?"
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 07:35 AM
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19. You should respond with something like:
I'm against it. I think it should be made illegal.

Just to see if they can even think of a good response. :)
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 06:38 PM
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11. No, that's 'Spammers, Perverts, Illiterates, and Trolls'
S.P.I.T.

:evilgrin:
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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 06:42 PM
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13. omg
you are something else


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

lost
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 06:39 PM
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12. STFU, N00B!
:P
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 07:37 PM
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14. *sniff* Nobody ever asks ME to cyber... :(
:P
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-16-07 09:34 PM
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17. You're the one who voted for Nader.
:eyes:
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