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Why is this section filled with 95% level 1 with minus points average of 14? Is this the ultimate troll site?

Almost everyone I check on has very few points and almost always has 14 points or more deducted, and they are almost all Level 1 folks. Is this just a few people with multiple accounts or are there really that many weirdos out there? Maybe both? Or perhaps these are in the closet individuals who are going crazy because they are afraid to be who they are because of societies opinions?

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  • JPane
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    Some people only create an account so that they can ask questions (costs 5 points, obviously). Since they don't contribute (and often don't select a BA), they don't recover those points.

    There are also spammers, who usually have more than one account (spam rings). People are more willing to report them because, let's face it, everyone hates them.

    Or, perhaps it's one person with multiple accounts who asks questions so that s/he can give their main account a BA or two (or twelve, or twenty, or fifty).

    Alternatively, there IS a person with a hundred sock puppets who just trolls a specific board. We've had quite a number of users like that around here.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    We get a lot of trolls in this section; mainly Copy & Paste trolls. But unlike the Politics and Religious & Spiritual sections you can get an actual answer here; where as those two sections are all trolls.

    Source(s): Nostalgic Troll Critic
  • Lava
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Pretty sure this section is just me, Clones2K, and one other guy with 3,000 accounts. He trolls, we feed him because he is our troll, all is right with the world.

    Source(s): Yahoo! Answers: helping babby form for a better tomorrow.
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