What to do after C2

Discuss any questions in English. Practise your writing skills.

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#26

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mustang пишет: 05 янв 2020, 19:24
alanta пишет: 05 янв 2020, 19:11 How about trolls with a good level of English?
What about them? Do you have someone particular in mind?
Mmm... It depends on how you define "trolls" ;-) . Becuase I can see two of them here... Well, as I see them. By my definition of "trolls"
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Сообщение Eager Beaver »

acapnotic пишет: 05 янв 2020, 19:11 However, I definitely don't enjoy Russian posts in the only section where people are supposed to write in English.
If I'd seen an in-your-face warning at the top of the page, something along the lines of "Write in English or don't bother writing at all - your messages will be deleted", most likely I would've kept scrolling.
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#28

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alanta пишет: 05 янв 2020, 19:39 It depends on how you define "trolls" ;-) . Becuase I can see two of them here.
Trolls? Here?

Gavenkoa is not a troll by any definition imaginable.

Acapnotic is not trolling, he's sharpening the sharpest tool in his tool box - his incomparable logic.

Eager Beaver has no time for internet trolling - too busy, too focused on perfecting his English.

Xander must be the smartest guy alive, the lost twin brother of Acapnotic, correcting countless logical mistakes in our messages. Trying to make people smarter, more aware of how irrational and illogical they are. You can't call it trolling.

Zymbronia is a battle-scarred veteran of many a forum skirmishes. He knows better than anyone how painfull trolling can be when you are on the receiving end of it.

Харбин? You must be joking. Харбин tends to take other people's trolling too seriously. In fact, he is serious about being serious, the vocabulary size as big as it can possibly get does it to you.

Well, that leaves you and me. I UNDERSTAND that you are feeling so lonely, need to team up with someone who can't let a day go by without trolling others. But I am afraid I still have a long way to go, there's so much I need to learn about cyberbulling before I can join you. Maybe in a year?
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#29

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gavenkoa пишет: 05 янв 2020, 19:02 Actually old forum had a rule that only English is allowed in "practice" section. I'd like such rule as it allows to restrict flood from trolls.

There is a discussion how should the title be changed in private admin area to provide guidance. As every committee discussion it takes infinite time while actual change is a 10 sec work ))
If you don't want users, trolls or no trolls, to write in Russian here, make it known. Stipulate it in the forum rules, update the subforum's description, place a warning so that users won't spend time on something that takes time to write and only a fraction of a second to delete.
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#30

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mustang пишет: 05 янв 2020, 20:37 Well, that leaves you and me.
There's one problem though -- I don't think my English is good, or good enough for trolling anyway. So, well, now you know why I usually refuse to write in English. I mean, without trolling it's no fun ;-p
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Eager Beaver пишет: 05 янв 2020, 20:49 make it known
This forum is volunteer. There is no time to make "product" bullet-proof by owners (2 people) and small moderator team (4 people).

I remember government services, they are paid all 25 years (imagine they cut 20% VAT or my money!) of independence and still they treat tax-payers as crap.
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Сообщение Aksamitka »

A reminder from the administrators:

If in doubt, check the discription of the sub-forum.
Изучение английского языка

A remark from me:
Sapienti sat.
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Aksamitka пишет: 05 янв 2020, 23:04 A reminder from the administrators:

If in doubt, check the discription of the sub-forum.
Изучение английского языка
Where is the rule stating that writing in other languages is prohibited and that messages in Russian are to be deleted by moderators without a warning, even if these messages are on topic?
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#34

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gavenkoa пишет: 05 янв 2020, 22:38 There is no time to make "product" bullet-proof by owners (2 people) and small moderator team (4 people).
The lack of time and small team size are not your team’s biggest problem.
Remark from me: Sapienti sat (c)
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Eager Beaver,
Aksamitka пишет: 05 янв 2020, 23:04 A reminder from the administrators:

If in doubt, check the discription of the sub-forum.
Изучение английского языка

A remark from me:
Sapienti sat.
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Aksamitka пишет: 05 янв 2020, 23:21 Eager Beaver,
Aksamitka пишет: 05 янв 2020, 23:04 A reminder from the administrators:

If in doubt, check the discription of the sub-forum.
Изучение английского языка

A remark from me:
Sapienti sat.
Are you seeing things rules? Sad.
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#37

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I just logged in and I was like...wtf?
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Eager Beaver пишет: 05 янв 2020, 20:33 If I'd seen an in-your-face warning at the top of the page, something along the lines of "Write in English or don't bother writing at all - your messages will be deleted", most likely I would've kept scrolling.
You mean you wouldn't have posted at all? For what reason?
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#39

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paveltashkinov пишет: 06 янв 2020, 07:04 I just logged in and I was like...wtf?
That's life. It's unpredictable. :)
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acapnotic пишет: 06 янв 2020, 07:11 You mean you wouldn't have posted at all? For what reason
I have long since lost all interest in writing in English here.
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Eager Beaver пишет: 06 янв 2020, 11:06 I have long since lost all interest in writing in English here.
That's OK, but it's irrelevant in this case. You replied because you were interested in replying, not in writing in this or that language. So the question remains: why wouldn't you have done that in English? You want to reply and you can do it in either language. What's the problem with English?
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acapnotic пишет: 06 янв 2020, 11:20 That's OK, but it's irrelevant in this case.
It's relevant alright. Just accept that replying in English was not an option.
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Eager Beaver, I accepted it right away. What interested me was the reason. If you refuse to reveal it, it's your right. Let's leave it at that then.
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#44

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mustang пишет: 05 янв 2020, 20:37
alanta пишет: 05 янв 2020, 19:39 It depends on how you define "trolls" ;-) . Becuase I can see two of them here.
Trolls? Here?

Gavenkoa is not a troll by any definition imaginable.

Acapnotic is not trolling, he's sharpening the sharpest tool in his tool box - his incomparable logic.

Eager Beaver has no time for internet trolling - too busy, too focused on perfecting his English.

Xander must be the smartest guy alive, the lost twin brother of Acapnotic, correcting countless logical mistakes in our messages. Trying to make people smarter, more aware of how irrational and illogical they are. You can't call it trolling.

Zymbronia is a battle-scarred veteran of many a forum skirmishes. He knows better than anyone how painfull trolling can be when you are on the receiving end of it.

Харбин? You must be joking. Харбин tends to take other people's trolling too seriously. In fact, he is serious about being serious, the vocabulary size as big as it can possibly get does it to you.

Well, that leaves you and me. I UNDERSTAND that you are feeling so lonely, need to team up with someone who can't let a day go by without trolling others. But I am afraid I still have a long way to go, there's so much I need to learn about cyberbulling before I can join you. Maybe in a year?
Am absolute must-read for anyone suspecting trolling on the site))


Bravo. I could hardly recollect laughing that hard for quite a while.
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Popsicle пишет: 10 янв 2020, 11:29 I could hardly recollect laughing that hard for quite a while.
What is the point of the joke? Wherein is the joke itself? Of what shall we laugh? I can see it as a serious speculation on detection of trolls, while we know that there are at least two trolls here and we cannot find them out. I can exclude some people from that group, but there are still much more than two left. Who are those two trolls?

PS: With appearance of you and me here, we have two more candidates to get into this group :(
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Michelangelo,
Whatever
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#47

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Just to be clear. In my post I asked "How about trolls with a good level of English?" I wasn't asking about trolls with mediocre English skills. So those have nothing to worry about. Really :-)
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alanta пишет: 10 янв 2020, 23:39 Just to be clear. In my post I asked "How about trolls with a good level of English?" I wasn't asking about trolls with mediocre English skills. So those have nothing to worry about. Really :-)
A-ha-ha. Alanta, thanks for you opinion))) Just to make sure you realise: in my posts I address ALL the users in the thread and beyond. DON'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY. Have a great winter weekend!!
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#49

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Hi there! How interesting indeed. The purpose of trolling, as I see it, is to provoke others into the argument. It is exciting to watch them doing that in a particular way or using a particular technique. This is not simple for people who do not have a strong background in the subject. Following with interest. 😊
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#50

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So this is what people do after C2. Troll one another on a forum.
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