User blog comment:Sykokillah/Are we too defensive?/@comment-10950063-20140912234051

Fucking Requiem of Ice. Everytime he fucks up, he deletes everything to make it look like he never did anything. I was going to point to his DeviantArt journal where he said the exact same thing he did in the blog post he claimed was a "test." If it was a test for us and not a lame troll, why would he have posted it on DA, too? And why would he have deleted the journal. Of course, he could always say there never was such a journal and I'm immature for trying to pin something made up on him.

Here's the thing: if people had reacted that way to anyone else, I would've interceded. We can be very blunt with people who criticize the wiki, but usually it's a simple statement of facts. If it gets too mean or the point is being hammered too hard, the comments get disabled, it ends.

But I'm a big fan of Requiem of Ice as a lolcow. I knew it was a troll attempt and I knew it was out, for lack of a better word, butthurt. He has a habit of getting very upset about very stupid things. There are a lot of examples that I've seen in the few months that I've been watching DA:

http://ultralulzz.deviantart.com/journal/Troll-bait-462350628 - This is him getting angry when someone says his character looks like Wesker.

http://dellydevil.deviantart.com/journal/IT-S-MY-STYLE-8C-449975902 - This is about the time when someone tried to give him some drawing advice and he flipped out.

http://dellydevil.deviantart.com/journal/Admin-power-abuse-at-it-s-finest-449003104 - This is him threatening to use his position as an admin on CPLand wiki to deleted someone story and get them banned.

That happened because someone told him another character could beat his OC: http://comments.deviantart.com/4/22130369/3437503077?offset=10#comments

I love this shit. DA is entertaining as hell. It didn't even take me any time to find those. The first two, I literally found by searching "requiem of ice" + idiot. And there's so, so much more.

What's my point? My point is that maybe we are too defensive, but a petulant troll can't teach us that lesson. Because that's what he is. It skews the actual situation. In the situation we're talking about, who gives a shit? It was a blatant troll and a bad attempt at being clever. Some people ask for it. When they don't, when people are piling on someone who doesn't deserve it, admins should intercede.