Concern Trolling and my paranoia

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Lately, presumably because of the approach of Classic release, I am seeing increasing numbers of Concern Troll posts. You know the kind - intense hand wringing and worry about some future problem that Blizzard MUST act on now.

I have started to think that this is actually organized. That it is a concerted effort to depress and derail excitement for Classic.

Private servers in some locations, principally Russia, are a profitable business these days, how likely is it that there is an effort here to torpedo Classic so the PS profits keep rolling in?

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anything is possible…

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An effort to? I wonder if they’d even dare to try. There’s a good reason the private server community heaved a collective gasp of relief when Blizzard announced they’d be taking over. The sorts of servers you’re referencing have all but withered to nothing.

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They’re all Paul Manafort alts. He heard Hillary was going to play Classic.

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Found a better, appropriate gif…

:smiling_imp:

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This seems like a Concern Troll post about an issue that might happen. Namely Concern Trolling.

You’re very meta.

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Ha. Yeah maybe.

I figured most of the stuff was just sour grapes from retail folks who always resented the Classic decision. But they are getting weirder and weirder and coming in waves now. About goofy stuff like running out of Vanilla content or the dreaded Superguilds, or Classic fail because no tokens. And the OP typically stay with the post for hours and hours.

I know - paranoia

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On a serious note, I’m not worried about Russian trolls, or anyone for that matter, dissuading me from playing Classic.

But you’re right about the trolls in general.

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Are we talking about the trolls that the orcs first brought in? Or are we talking about bridge trolls that like to ruin everyones day?

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Well, I know if you wear a bell while hiking, trolls won’t come out from under the bridges. Learned that in Scotland.

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^This right here.

Somebody’s been ringing your bell. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Its funny to me, people pour into the Troll posts and feed them, it may just be more fun to let em yell into the Vaccum and allow their posts to slowly dissapear down the Thread list. My [Tinfoil Hat] can only repel so much!

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Мы были обнаружены! Инициировать код красный!

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We were found! Initiate a code red! Oh, no, it’s Putin!

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I think you will find that the majority of those trolls are the same people on alts.

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Are there really people out there who think that Classic is taking resources away from Retail? I mean they built a whole team by recruiting old devs etc. Retail still has the vast lion’s share of development, and always will. It just seems like “whiny Retail players” is the actual concern troll of less wholesome Classic posters.

I am completely on board with Classic, yet I don’t hold a grudge against people playing Retail. Without them paying their subs, we wouldn’t have even got Classic off the ground.

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We’re dealing with a very large group of humans. So you have to figure the that we have some crazy, some Locke & Demosthenes, attention seekers, angry at the world, flat earthers, and people who may not be able to think out ideas and communicate them as well as others. But, most likely it’s Activision trying to screw us all over. Them corporate pigs. :full_moon_with_face:

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Haha, wow… I don’t even know where to begin.

The rabbit hole goes way deeper than some European private servers, my friend. You have two options here, continue reading and see how deep the rabbit hole goes or close this thread, and carry on with your life.

Before continuing to read, I feel it would be irresponsible not to give one final warning and to remind you that in some cases ignorance is truly bliss.

It’s April 2000 and the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Bill Joy releases a disturbing “April Fools” article for wired(dot)com entitled, “Why the future doesn’t need us”. Most brush the article off as an overly detailed prank, but some find the “story” unsettling and the lack of a punch line intensifies this feeling further. In this article, Mr. Joy describes a casual meeting that took place between himself and Ray Kurzweil. Ray talks about extremely advanced AI in the near future and the ability to potentially infuse or merge humankind with advanced machines to grant among other things, immortality.

This conversation leads Mr. Joy to two possible conclusions:

  1. If machines will truly be capable of making better decisions and doing better work than humans, and power is given to them, eventually, human dependence on machines will create an enslavement to the machines.

  2. If power is retained over the common machines, still the most advanced machines will remain under the control of a tiny group of elites. With humans being essentially obsolete, these controllers would either exterminate the majority of the population or enslave them psychologically. Dumbing them down and discouraging reproduction until they slowly exterminate themselves.

The key to this would be keeping the most dangerous populations (the ones with means to fight back) in a state of stupor using a bombardment of entertainment while the takeover happens unnoticed.

Entertainment companies of all walks were approached at the highest levels to develop these means. Human behavior specialists and psychologists were sent to game companies in an attempt to try to come up with the perfect form of distraction. The key ingredient to this it turned out was replicating life on a smaller scale, effort and reward. It’s a simple key, but the real discovery was finding the right balance that wouldn’t make people feel like it was too easy or too hard to keep them coming back for more. Blizzard found that balance with World of Warcraft. A world that doesn’t really exist, yet people are willing to throw away their lives for it.

This brings us to the European private server owners, the problem is that the tools of control must not fall into the hands of the people. This breaks the system of control.

The people you’re seeing which you label as “concern trolls” are casualties of this psychological warfare, addicts, desperately looking for that next fix and hoping it will be as good as they remember it being.

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