@lecracheursagacite
Back around the year 2000 I remember learning what an internet troll was. Someone who intelligently and cunningly depicted himself as an honest person looking for authentic conversation, but in reality his purpose was to get a reaction out of people, get them to fight him or to get them to fight each other.
The important key here is doing it in a clever and deceitful way, so people didn't realize what he was doing and therefore getting genuine emotional responses from them.
Later on low effort trolls started to appear and slowly the term "troll" started applying to them. It got to the point where the first and genuine meaning was forgotten.
I'm not sorry to say you fit the original meaning beautifully. An actual troll is only successful when at least some people don't realize he is one. So congratulations for that. Personally I'm not buying for one second that someone as seemingly intelligent as you are is behaving with honesty. There's also a small chance you're doing this unknowingly, but that doesn't change the negative impact which such contributions bring.
You can expect me to not respond to your messages sometimes. I generally only want to interact with people who I believe are acting in good faith.
Regarding Zak vs Voobly. I started following the aoe2 scene back when it was happening.
As some already pointed no one is perfect. Personal feuds sadly exist and both parties will act nasty sometimes. That doesn't mean the rest of us have to take sides and start hating on the other party. That's immature and only helps spread negativity. You can still point at their mistakes but support and love both sides. In this specific case it is obvious both helped aoe2 tremendously, and anyone intentionally forgetting that because of being polarized is doing a great disservice to honestly.
I happens constantly when this little dramas start, Zak vs Voobly, Memb vs Mbl, Memb vs T90, etc... This place would be a hell of a lot "better" if people was able to accept their beloved pro-player/streamers/platform can have problems with other parties and can also make mistakes. So generally speaking there's no need to take sides and fuel the hate. Let others fix their own problems instead of making those problems grow. It's called being independent and mature. It's called respecting personal dramas and staying away from them, or at least staying emotionally neutral in an attempt to not make it worse.
Back around the year 2000 I remember learning what an internet troll was. Someone who intelligently and cunningly depicted himself as an honest person looking for authentic conversation, but in reality his purpose was to get a reaction out of people, get them to fight him or to get them to fight each other.
The important key here is doing it in a clever and deceitful way, so people didn't realize what he was doing and therefore getting genuine emotional responses from them.
Later on low effort trolls started to appear and slowly the term "troll" started applying to them. It got to the point where the first and genuine meaning was forgotten.
I'm not sorry to say you fit the original meaning beautifully. An actual troll is only successful when at least some people don't realize he is one. So congratulations for that. Personally I'm not buying for one second that someone as seemingly intelligent as you are is behaving with honesty. There's also a small chance you're doing this unknowingly, but that doesn't change the negative impact which such contributions bring.
You can expect me to not respond to your messages sometimes. I generally only want to interact with people who I believe are acting in good faith.
Regarding Zak vs Voobly. I started following the aoe2 scene back when it was happening.
As some already pointed no one is perfect. Personal feuds sadly exist and both parties will act nasty sometimes. That doesn't mean the rest of us have to take sides and start hating on the other party. That's immature and only helps spread negativity. You can still point at their mistakes but support and love both sides. In this specific case it is obvious both helped aoe2 tremendously, and anyone intentionally forgetting that because of being polarized is doing a great disservice to honestly.
I happens constantly when this little dramas start, Zak vs Voobly, Memb vs Mbl, Memb vs T90, etc... This place would be a hell of a lot "better" if people was able to accept their beloved pro-player/streamers/platform can have problems with other parties and can also make mistakes. So generally speaking there's no need to take sides and fuel the hate. Let others fix their own problems instead of making those problems grow. It's called being independent and mature. It's called respecting personal dramas and staying away from them, or at least staying emotionally neutral in an attempt to not make it worse.