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Since it's come to my attention that certain communities have been purposely posting troll secrets for the lulz, I'm going to start getting harsher on what counts as a non-troll secret, especially regarding the fandom involved.

ETA2: No, this isn't only SPN fandom. This goes for everyone else, too.

Just a heads up.

And apologies in advance if any real secret posters get caught up in this.

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It's not what you said, but how you said it.

I don't really want to argue with you, and I can see that we're having a misunderstanding and you're already on the defensive.

So I'm going to bow out and do the cool thing: pretend not to care.

I mean, I do understand where you're coming from. But what else CAN I do? Let everything go? Some of the mods of capslock_spn ARE the very people encouraging the trolling. What then?

First you need to evaluate whether or not the situation is actually trolling.

For instance, a lot of the secrets are posted solely to make others laugh.

Secondly, have you read the posts about the secrets? Because I'm a member of

capslock_spn, and I haven't really seen anyone mention trolling so much as, "LOL which one of you made this? It has to be one of us!"

Third, you probably shouldn't have made such a big deal about it and gone on to reject secrets at your own discretion, as there is no actual way to tell if a secret is true or not.

Lastly, if you can't stand the idea of trolling or the sort of secrets that show up for SPN, you can always implement a quality clause, which lets those with secrets know that you except the secrets to maintain a certain level of quality. IE: No blurry text, no MS Paint secrets. And there's always outlawing capslock.

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I think what most people are upset about is that you blatantly called out

capslock_spn as trolls. Without much proof other than a F!S tag, which you would've seen is merely a discussion tag for the secrets for Spn. As

ashe_frost mentioned, 99.9% of the time if there is a specific secret that screams CAPSLOCK then they try to find out whether or not someone from

capslock_spn really did make the secret.

I'm not going to say that there hasn't been trolling secrets, and I'm not going to say that it didn't come from the Supernatural, because there are definitely batshit Spn fen. But you have to understand why people are rightfully upset that you call out a specific group of people. Which you did, whether you meant other fandoms are going to be treated the same or not.

I don't know -- from what I heard, and this is from people in that community, they were the ones responsible for MOST of the trolling secrets to date. And I'm not saying that the WHOLE community is responsible, either. Though this whole 3-odd pages of comments since I stopped responding isn't really helping their image.

But don't worry, then, all fandoms are going to be treated equally. If you want me to apologize for my wording, sure, okay. I'm sorry. Not for getting harsher on troll secrets, though.

I'm sure the capslock mods would love to know who told you that. It would help if you edited your post to show that

capslock_spn isn't the only one you're hatin' on.

Sure, will do.

FWIW, this is what the comment pages to every

capslock_spn post EVER look like. It's (mostly) not a reaction to this post in particular, I think. It's more like the comm giving the public a taste of the glee and depravity that is the norm over there, lol threads and illiteracy jokes included.

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