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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    Stop being coy and intentionally contradictory, you KNOW exactly what a flame bait thread is. Just because its mostly the same individuals changes nothing
    Again, though, this is not aimed at personalities, but behavior of a certain pattern, "whether the OP poster engages in discussion of topic, or detracts, disrupts and discourages any attempt to discuss."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Again, though, this is not aimed at personalities, but behavior of a certain pattern, "whether the OP poster engages in discussion of topic, or detracts, disrupts and discourages any attempt to discuss."

    Are you talking about members who drop in, post topics and then leave without ever joining in the conversation?

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    Master baiting threads are still cool, right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Again, though, this is not aimed at personalities, but behavior of a certain pattern, "whether the OP poster engages in discussion of topic, or detracts, disrupts and discourages any attempt to discuss."
    Threads started with the intent to troll and bait promote and instigate "posts" in return in the thread that detract from the bait topic. Thats the intent of the trollbait poster in the first place.

    I understand personalities or individuals arent the focus but the same individuals post the most trollbait threads and we all know who they are and theres more than two.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matty View Post
    Are you talking about members who drop in, post topics and then leave without ever joining in the conversation?
    Not for now. What we want to see stop is posting that "detracts, disrupts and discourages any attempt to discuss."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Obvious View Post
    Master baiting threads are still cool, right?
    For you, sure. Though if too graphic, in the Hole with you!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Do you deliberately distort the announcement?

    Read: "one criteria is whether the OP engages in discussion of topic, or detracts, disrupts and discourages any attempt to discuss."

    Do you have questions about that?
    Yeah, I do. The thread in question was a news thread. It was posted and then attacked in no meaningful way. There was really nothing for the op to "respond" to. Is it up to the OP to further the dialogue and coach the other posters?

    Also, if these so called bait threads are posted in rants, what happens then?

    Seems all sorta arbitrary to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    Threads started with the intent to troll and bait promote and instigate "posts" in return in the thread that detract from the bait topic. Thats the intent of the trollbait poster in the first place.

    I understand personalities or individuals arent the focus but the same individuals post the most trollbait threads and we all know who they are and theres more than two.
    We all probably see different people behaving like this.
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    Question and no offense to the captain, but was his thread "would you rather have been aborted" a bait thread?

    Seemed to fit the criteria.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Common Sense View Post
    Question and no offense to the captain, but was his thread "would you rather have been aborted" a bait thread?

    Seemed to fit the criteria.
    that was an honest quest for enlightenment, imo

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