During my tenure here, ive noticed a few trends

regarding people asking for help. Below I have

lumped them into loose categories starting from worst to best.

Most of the time, you cannot distinguish the

different types until you have seen how they

respond or behave towards others offering help.

See if you can spot them, and use this analysis to

save your time and add your own maybe!

1. Troll

starts posting with some ad homimen attack "so and so is crap"

or purposely attacking someone or something in the disguise of help.

Psychology: Intent is to masturbate to the intensity of

angry posts he/she gets back

Warning signs: always taking the opposite position to whoever

replies. one word or sentence replies to people with well thought

out long replies.

Result: waste of time, waste of energy, do not post.

2. Ghost Poster

starts posting with 1 post , maybe short or long

psychology: never comes back, never replies, never posts there again

Warning signs: days go by or many posts go by with

helpful suggestions and not even a thanks in return.

result: once discovered, waste of time, waste of energy

3. Wall poster

Starts posting with a MASSIVE wall of post with no punctuation or spaces.

psychology: a lot to talk about, maybe philosophical in nature

warning signs: wall post

Result: not a big problem if you don't mind reading it...but too much

for some people.be prepared for length replies

4. Venter

Starts off post with: some mention of a problem,

not necessarily indicating needing help

psychology: Just wants to vent, does not want advice,

and sometimes doesn't even want replies

warning signs: contradicts most replies, can become hostile

result: once discovered waste of time unless you are just

replying to the venter for entertainment purposes.

5. Ego man

Starts off post with: If not in the lay report/field report, its

some sort of brag about their accomplishments...ORRR they are

asking for help

psychology: asking for help will generate replies to which

they can reply in some way as to boost their ego OR they

don't want to accept advice or will ignore advice because it

contradicts with what they THINK they should do (ie., making

your post useless) or they can't accept help.

warning signs: dismissal of most advice. Acceptance of advice

that they wanted all along. Or constantly being argumentative

about replies saying "that's not what I wanted" or "I know that

already" over and over even though the first post did not indicate

the lines on which an acceptable response would be.

result: Tiring and waste of time, unless you reply with something

they wanted to hear

6. Willing to get help.

Starts off post with: wanting to get help.

psychology: Actually wanting help and is open to suggestions.

Will try your suggestions

warning signs: acceptance of ideas in thread, replies about

updated status, replies about what happened when tried something

result: Wonderful to engage in discourse with.

I need help. I just laid a beautiful woman. We copulated for hours until my penis released itself far up into her vagina. But I'm a smidgen worried. Is it possible to get your mom pregnant if she has already given birth to you. Please help put my mind at ease.

The dreams come and go... get it "come" and go. Im joking!

Originally Posted by El Stud See if you can spot them, and use this analysis to save your time and add your own maybe!

7. Pointless Poster

Continuously starts threads out of the blue cointaining some mental

masturbatory observations that no one actually gives a fuck about.

Psychology: These 'observations' are usually aspects of his own split

personality manifested as imaginary 'other forum users' while making an

obvious attempt to come across as more intellectual than he really is.

Warning Signs: Will normally spend quite a bit of time away from the

forum between posts, no doubt in order to work on trying to come up

with something good to post next time.

Will usually have a name that contains something that makes him look

like he is a woman's man.

Result: Too boring to respond to. Laugh at.

VALUE THREAD.

As soon as I saw it was a monstar post I wanted in.

Is it the real monstar or a guy pretending? I have no idea any more (troll is successful)

Monstar is the ghost in the machine to me. An internet myth and legend.

i love being misunderstood.

Originally Posted by OutingtheBS VALUE THREAD. As soon as I saw it was a monstar post I wanted in. Is it the real monstar or a guy pretending? I have no idea any more (troll is successful) Monstar is the ghost in the machine to me. An internet myth and legend.

i can only quote.