Conflict Management for Dummies, Thursday, Third Period

[thefearwasreal]

Today, Oz had his class meet him in the computer lab.

"So, since so many of you are new to this business, before we get to the good stuff, I'm going to take this week to ease the newbies in with one of the easiest forms of conflict escalation known to modern times, online trolling."

Oz gestured to the computers. "These have been set up with their own dedicated forum. Each workstation is signed in to an existing account on this forum." With the ability to create more sockpuppets, but Oz wasn't going to mention that, let them figure it out. "Your job is to try to take a civil discussion to a disagreement, to an argument, to a full out flame-war, but try to be subtle about it, since hopefully by now the average web-user knows not to feed the trolls."

"One final thing to keep in mind, you mightn't be able to know who's posting what, but I will, the assignment is to start and escalate an argument, not abuse your classmates. You want to be an ass, not an asshole."

Comments

Sign In - CMD [02]

[thefearwasreal]

Like a troll.

Re: Sign In - CMD [02]

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

Sholeh Zeela a Zhahar

(Zee)

Re: Sign In - CMD [02]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

Jessica Drew

Re: Sign In - CMD [02]

[fairest-blood.livejournal.com]

Snow White

Re: Sign In - CMD [02]

[nottrivial]

Alec Lightwood

Re: Sign In - CMD [02]

[lockestheway]

Peter Wiggin

Listen to Oz - CMD [02]

[thefearwasreal]

Clearly this was going to end well.

Re: Listen to Oz - CMD [02]

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

Zee didn't know much about computers, but she knew arguments well enough. She was going to poke around for a bit and get a feel for how this all worked while Oz lectured.

Trolling, trolling, trolling - CMD [02]

[thefearwasreal]

Start 'a civil conversation' or jump in on an existing one. It'll all end in tears either way.

Re: Trolling, trolling, trolling - CMD [02]

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

Zeela was waiting for someone else to start the conversation. Mostly because she still wasn't sure how this all was supposed to work.

Re: Trolling, trolling, trolling - CMD [02]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

This would be easy.

Did anyone catch the Emmy nominations? Just about perfect, as usual.

Re: Trolling, trolling, trolling - CMD [02]

[fairest-blood.livejournal.com]

Snow was going to take a moment to sit in confusion, because . . . what was a computer?

Talk to Oz - CMD [02]

[thefearwasreal]

Who is has the banhammer ready and waiting if you go from being a troll to a douche.

OOC - CMD [02]

[thefearwasreal]

...keep those flames a rolling.