Blatant trolling

[Daniel]

One thing I've noticed recently is that there are a few posters in the F1 forum who deliberately disregard the content of some people's posts and pick bits which they then attack with statements which completely disregard what the poster has actually said.

I'll give an example here. Driver X has just had an incident in the Polish GP which most people seem to feel should have been penalised which wasn't penalised.

Driver x certainly should have got a penalty in the Polish GP

There's no consistency at the moment, driver x should have got a penalty in the Polish GP but driver Y did something that wasn't as bad in the Swiss GP and got a stop and go!

I agree with you, but driver y got that penalty because on the Swiss GP track you don't lose time going through the pits for a drive through

Now user 1 posts in reply to yet another poster on a slightly different topic

The main problem is that in Switzerland, driver c and d committed worse offenses than driver Y and didn't get any penalties at all

You're always going on about how those Swiss forumers and stewards are biased towards Swiss drivers

Yes, I do feel the Swiss stewards didn't act in a consistent manner when you compare the Polish GP to the Swiss one. The Swiss stewards are biased

Inbetween the time this is posted and the next post driver x gets a penalty.

I bet you loved reading about the 5 place penalty for driver x. You're probably crying now and trying to think of an excuse for driver x's behaviour.

I think driver x should have got the penalty

Not sure what you're on about, I said above that driver x should have been penalised.

and he did!!!!!

<insert cheap insult here> I'll try to type slower for you etc etc

I said above that driver x should have been penalised.

You wrote, "I do feel the Swiss stewards didn't act in a consistent manner when you compare the Polish GP to the Swiss one. The Swiss stewards are biased." Care to explain on this now that Driver x has been penalised? ]

Now call me silly but Troll1 is trolling, user1 clearly feels that driver x should be penalised and so does Troll1! But for some reason Troll1 is picking out a statement by user1 about how the stewarding in a previous GP wasn't up to standard and turning this into user1 saying that driver x shouldn't be penalised.

Now call me cynical, but this is just a different way of trolling, technically you're not doing anything wrong, there's nothing in the forum rules that says you're not allowed to misinterpret someone's words on purpose or take quotes out of context and draw silly conclusions from them, but if user1 comes back and understandably out of frustration says "Troll, you're obviously a ****ing idiot if you can't understand what I wrote" then user1 is the one who's going to get an infraction or a ban when it's clear that troll1 set out to cause friction and get a reaction.....

Now the way I've set this out is probably quite confusing but you'll probably pick the thread out from a mile away and I've reported it too. But this sort of passive agressive trolling is becoming rather common in the F1 forum and is a rather sneaky way of trying to get a reaction out other posters. Whilst I'd hate to see someone get an infraction for a genuine misunderstanding, it's clear that some people are deliberately picking parts of people's posts out and then disregarding stuff which obviously disproves the point they're trying to make.