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| quote: | Originally posted by EddieZilker
I'm not defending his technique but RANN's always been a bit of a long-winded typist. Whether that bleeds into his trolling expeditions isn't for me to say. If it were me arguing that Oakenfold was better than PVD, I might be lent towards being long-winded to enhance the credibility of my troll.
There are a few positions which are dead giveaways of trolling. The Earth is Flat, Why has My Son Asked Me to Stop Offering His Friends Back Rubs?, and Atlas Shrugged is the Best Book Ever Written. They retard conventional wisdom, mores, and comprehension so horribly that their assumptions must be enhanced with vehemence in order to sell them as plausibly subject to argument. Even with that vehemence, the topics almost render themselves moot and an astute moderator will lock the thread, instantaneously.
Perhaps sloppily, RANN played the seething fanboy, foaming at the mouth with the essential combination of ignorant familiarity, loaded antagonism, and blatant error requisite to sell an otherwise implausible belief that Oakenfold should be allowed in the top 10 trance artists of all time (and above J00F, PVD, et al).
I've read RANN somewhat extensively. I've rarely seen him pop off like that. When he does disagree with someone, he's usually got them dead to rights on the outset. Oakenfold is typically despised as a joke in the Music Production Studio. Even Deadmau5 gets more respect. I may have missed something but I've never seen him take up Oakenfold's defense, there. Here he was clearly demonstrating views commonly held by ignorant newbies. The only other explanation which makes remote sense is that he was tipsy when he ventured into this thread and became even more blottoed as the argument progressed. Personally, I suspect a little from column A and a little from column B.
To his (troll's) detriment, he let you coax him into back-peddling on his position. His vitriolic, abusive word salad left him open to your rigorous cherry picking of arguments so absurd that I'd have been surprised to see you ignore them. Your logic flames, rendered with the persistence of an unchecked police interrogator, eventually sealed the fate of the argument as a whole. That was when I first posted after my hiatus from this dismal thread.
His admission to trolling was partly out of necessity. It still may have been a sloppy troll, but he's a forum resident. If I were a TA in Training, with no credibility to uphold, I wouldn't have yielded even that. |
He weren't trolling mate, and if he was, then fuck me, what a waste of his time and everyone else's.
If it were me, I rather be serious and look daft than be writing all that for a joke...
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