bigmacintosh2000 
In reply to >>720418, I created and uploaded >>720555 (NSFW). Because I think it’s a funny picture and because I felt like poking fun at the entire Twilicorn drama. I referenced the picture in what seems a respectful way as a comment on the original picture. (Initially I embedded it, then realized the safety-level jump problem, and reported my own comment–thus demonstrating that I am trying to follow the rules around here.)
I then created two variations on the picture, because I thought it was a funny concept. I did not go back to the original post and comment there, said nothing abusive, and did nothing abusive. I just uploaded two pictures that I thought were funny, in the same theme–i.e., did something that looks like creating a meme. A background pony also added a picture that follows the format of the meme, and I tagged all of them with a new tag so that I could follow it and others could filter it if they desired. Nobody seemed to be upset by it and I didn’t direct it at anyone in particular. I even concluded in a comment on the third picture the sentiment that there wasn’t anywhere else to take the idea, so clearly stating that I was done with the mini-meme. And yet this earned me a two-day ban for “low-effort trolling.”
According to the font of all human knowledge, “In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people,[1] by posting inflammatory,[2] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[3] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[4]”
If anything, the original picture is closer to trolling (“starting arguments”). My actions were not inflammatory, but rather meant to defuse what seems to be a silly debate but which some are rather emotional about. (I.e., the precise opposite of trolling.) It was not meant to provoke any response other than a slight chuckle. And since I didn’t go back to the original post and direct attention there, it was not disrupting the “normal on-topic discussion.”
If that’s considered trolling around here, I certainly don’t understand why. So my question, then, is, how do the mods define trolling? Are they using any kind of a definition at all, or just going on some gut feeling? Is creating several images on a theme considered trolling simply because it might upset the anti-Twilicorn faction (and if so, why is it OK for the equally silly beating-of-a-dead-horse that any alicorn drama picture will always be)?
And is anyone actually monitoring that “clever” e-mail account?
That’s my two cents on the topic. I guess that will teach me for trying to contribute any humor to this site. I’ll be sticking to my amateurish pony porn from now on.
I then created two variations on the picture, because I thought it was a funny concept. I did not go back to the original post and comment there, said nothing abusive, and did nothing abusive. I just uploaded two pictures that I thought were funny, in the same theme–i.e., did something that looks like creating a meme. A background pony also added a picture that follows the format of the meme, and I tagged all of them with a new tag so that I could follow it and others could filter it if they desired. Nobody seemed to be upset by it and I didn’t direct it at anyone in particular. I even concluded in a comment on the third picture the sentiment that there wasn’t anywhere else to take the idea, so clearly stating that I was done with the mini-meme. And yet this earned me a two-day ban for “low-effort trolling.”
According to the font of all human knowledge, “In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people,[1] by posting inflammatory,[2] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[3] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[4]”
If anything, the original picture is closer to trolling (“starting arguments”). My actions were not inflammatory, but rather meant to defuse what seems to be a silly debate but which some are rather emotional about. (I.e., the precise opposite of trolling.) It was not meant to provoke any response other than a slight chuckle. And since I didn’t go back to the original post and direct attention there, it was not disrupting the “normal on-topic discussion.”
If that’s considered trolling around here, I certainly don’t understand why. So my question, then, is, how do the mods define trolling? Are they using any kind of a definition at all, or just going on some gut feeling? Is creating several images on a theme considered trolling simply because it might upset the anti-Twilicorn faction (and if so, why is it OK for the equally silly beating-of-a-dead-horse that any alicorn drama picture will always be)?
And is anyone actually monitoring that “clever” e-mail account?
That’s my two cents on the topic. I guess that will teach me for trying to contribute any humor to this site. I’ll be sticking to my amateurish pony porn from now on.
