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The YWS Policy on Trolling

Nate · 2010-02-01T07:03:36Z

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.

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Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:58 am

Mr.Knightley says... · Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:58 am

*is finally discovered*

Man you guys can raaant.

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Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:29 am

romance otaku says... · Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:29 am

Do sites I own myself count? Or 4chan? Because if they do you can ban be here and now... (I would never troll YWS)

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