The YWS Policy on Trolling

With one (hilarious) exception, no YWSers have been involved in trolling other sites. This is a very clear and awesome distinction between YWS and other sites. It's also one I'd like to keep. To accomplish that, I make a post like this every so often (once a year?) to state that if anyone from YWS is ever a troll on another site, you will be banned from YWS temporarily (even permanently if warranted). YWS has a very good reputation among educators and authors, and the way we've managed that is by being awesome. Since awesomeness speaks for itself, we don't feel the need to troll

What was the hilarious exception by the way? Back in 2006 to 2008 we had a problem with the admin of Drytear Poetry. He kept joining YWS to spam our members with requests to join his site. Attempts to get him to stop this and attempts to reason with his junior admins all failed. So left with no recourse, we organized a total trolling attack on Drytear. That was the last time their admin tried to spam us, although he kept on doing it to other sites.

By the way, that Drytear incident illustrates something else. Drytear is now known on many literary websites for its admin's spam messages. The site itself is decent enough, but because of the spam, Drytear has a terrible reputation. So on YWS, we try to keep our reputation high by not being jerks.

Yet, do try to recommend YWS whenever the situation arises! We get a lot of members especially from Yahoo Answers.

What will I do with my free time now?

OverEasy wrote:What ever will I do with my free time now?

Instead of trolling, take pictures of your cat and place captions with hilariously misspelled words in all-caps on them. It's an enjoyable, fulfilling hobby that can bring joy and light to one's day.

Nate... thanks to you I now know what my life calling is.

Nate wrote:

OverEasy wrote:What ever will I do with my free time now?

Instead of trolling, take pictures of your cat and place captions with hilariously misspelled words in all-caps on them. It's an enjoyable, fulfilling hobby that can bring joy and light to one's day.

xD Win!

EDIT:

Nate is all knowing o.o

Not quite. *still has Nate's cap*

Man, that was hilarious. Let's hope no YWSers make fools out of themselves

I will say one thing to that Drytear Admin:

PWNED!

irishfire wrote:I will say one thing to that Drytear Admin:

PWNED!

Is PWNED an abbreviation of something? I was never able to understand all the various abbreviations that people use.

No, I don't think it is. Its just another word for saying someone crushed you or beat you bad. My guess is they were trying to spell/type "owned" and there was a typo.

It's "pawned" in, *cough* chatspeak. A handful of chatspeak abbreviations slip by the YWS radar, and that's one of them. Irish has the definition.

Huh. I always wondered about that one. xD

Its the evolution of the English Language, which is somewhat dull and unexciting.

Think, in 4,500 billion years everyone will genuinely believe that 'you' is spelt as 'u'.

Curious thing, evolution.

Rosey Unicorn wrote:It's "pawned" in, *cough* chatspeak. A handful of chatspeak abbreviations slip by the YWS radar, and that's one of them. Irish has the definition.

It's "owned". Owned is a common term gamers use when they have done something awesome resulting in the setback/death of an enemy. P is next to O, and just like "teh", after a while this misspelling became another form of spelling, and in this case it is now the more common spelling.

Typically pronounced owned or powned.

I LOVE the word "owned" I use it all the time lol.

My mom doesn't get it though.