Quote Originally Posted by Vyndree',index.php?page=Thread&postID=42626#post42 626]If you notice, my "little buddy", despite all of my requests to post in my [url='http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=5288579356&sid=1&pageNo=1
multiboxing thread[/url], refuses to post in an area where he might get smacked around by blues.
Yeah, he is not interested in discussing the issue, just trolling. I am not as bugged by the trolls, because the sum total of their efforts is that Blizzard has gone out of their way to tell people, over and over and in very clear terms, that multi-boxing is not a TOS violation, it is not any more unfair than grouping, it doesn't violate the spirit of the game, and that they have absolutely no intention of taking action against it at this time, and they do not expect to take any action against it in the future. In other words, the trolls have succeeded in having Blizzard tell them to STFU, STFD, and GTFO. Bravo to the dimwits!

The ones that are more interesting are the ones who think that if they take a passive-aggressive pseudo-intellectual approach, they'll make a better impression on the developers. In particular the one who is now puffing out her chest to remind us that she's played MMOs for years and knows the game dynamics inside and out, including the market dynamics! All of that, to imply that mult-boxing is the harbinger of WoW's doooOOOoooOOOoommmmm! But when she is challenged on that heaping pile of BS, she immediately backtracks a little bit at a time, until after three or four posts she has effectively rescinded her original point while not directly admitting it. It's just mind-boggling.

So I just keep reminding them that just because they insist that up is down doesn't mean that Blizzard is about to take leave of its senses just to agree with them. It's almost encouraging to see that the anti-multi-boxing crowd has stooped to obvious trolling or goofy "well I am an MMO veteran and my studies show that..." crap. Their constant whining wound up generating the opposite of what they wanted-- Blizzard reps look like they're ready to ban anyone who doesn't multi-box, heh.

Kudos to you Vyndree for taking the high road in dealing with the trolls, they do seem to be caught off-balance when you play it straight with them. I prefer an approach that is almost as subtle but slightly more bloody.