Ignoring trolls makes the site worse?
Your logic is weird. Ever hear "Don't feed the trolls."?
Insead you would rather whine about the trolls in the threads you already say are cluttered with nonsense. That makes the thread better.... how?
It's not "defenders of freedom." It's simple take responsibility and use the ignore feature. You have so many problems with this thread, the person who created it and some posters inside of it. IGNORE FEATURE.
Literally solves all your problems and does not add to the garbage spew by whining more about it solving nothing.
You know, for all the troll comments Ransku produces, thread resurrections at the worst times etc - he still produces quality contributing content on the board in other threads. Similar to Dizee, where both their opinions are often unpopular, repetitive and very vocal - they actively contribute to the board, because they are vocal fans.
Using the ignore feature deprives us of the very valid points they do bring, as well as other threads they start... Like the day we got to 6 GDTs before Easton merged 5 of them, because the first 2 were created by people who were ignored/ignoring posters. Then multiple users took it upon themselves to create a GDT simultaneously and another few just thought it would be funny to keep pumping them out.
Using the ignore feature, as
@Stupendous Yappi says absolves posters of any accountability for the content or behaviour that should be reproached, moderated and/or stopped by other means. Ignoring posters doesn't solve the issue, it masks the problem and enables posters to continue with their questionable behaviour.
That you would take the time to belittle
@RampageNate, the poster that is most vocal and is well informed about our AHL affiliate and goalie prospects there, for coming to another thread where his insight would be quite meaningful is rather poor in taste.
I don't advocate for anyone well informed to be steered away from any forum discussions. I find your series of comments here to be ridiculous and bordering on troll worthy, in the sense that you are now also calling out specific posters, detracting from anything related to the OP (as questionable as it is) and in general making this thread unpleasant to read through.