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Microsoft Study Finds the Internet Community Might Be Getting Nicer
I don’t think it’s any secret that the general anonymity offered by the internet often results in a number of people saying things online that they’d never say to someone’s face. And if you want any proof of that, just play a couple of rounds of Call of Duty, or,…
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Australia Propose New Law to Force Social Media Platforms to Reveal ‘Trolls’
I think it would be fair to say that anyone who has spent long enough on the internet, and particularly social media, has, at some point or another, probably said something online that they would never say to someone’s face. If you say you haven’t, then while I’ll choose to…
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YouTube Tests Removing ‘Dislike’ Option From Videos
I am personally of the opinion that you shouldn’t put yourself on public social media such as YouTube unless you are entirely willing to take the good with the bad. And let’s face it, among society there is a very solid mix of both of those categories and everything in…
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Microsoft Updates Xbox Live Guidelines To Address ‘Trash Talk’
Microsoft Clarifies ‘Trash Talking’ I am a firm believer in that ‘trash talking’ can be an acceptable practice in gaming. It is, after all, fun to have a little banter to try and get the people you are playing with engaged in a positive way. It does, however, raise the…
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Steam Tackles ‘Troll Games’ With 170 Purged From The Platform
Steam Tackles ‘Troll Games’ With 180 Purged From The Platform A few months ago, Steam decided that moderating its content was going to be too tricky of a task. As such, they announced that they were largely going to offer all content on the popular PC platform. With, of course,…
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Fallout 76 Details Revealed Including Anti-Griefing System
Bethesda Reveal More Fallout 76 Details Over the last few weeks, we have seen Bethesda treat us to a lot of information and details surrounding the upcoming release of Fallout 76. In fairness, it has been so much that the initial complaints about the multiplayer style some fans had have…
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UK Parliament Proposes Public Office Ban For Online Trolls
UK Parliament Proposes Public Office Ban For Online Trolls I’ve made it pretty clear in the past that I have a strong definition of the word troll. I think it’s a blanket cover that the mainstream media tends to use too often and inaccurately. If you want to see how…
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Blizzard Confirm Overwatch Toxicity Has Dropped
Blizzard Confirm Overwatch Toxicity Has Dropped Blizzard has made it pretty clear that there is no place in Overwatch for toxic behaviour. With this, they have implemented a number of actions including much harsher penalties for those to be abusive or disruptive in the chat. This has resulted in communication…
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Fallout 76 To Have Fast Travel And PvP Griefing Protection
Fallout 76 Will Have Fast Travel and Protection For Low-Level Players Ok, so Fallout 76 is only a couple months away from release. In terms of the hype train though, this is getting off to a shaky start. Despite this seemingly being a fresh new direction for the franchise with…
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Intel Respond To AMD Troll With A Little One Of Their Own
Intel Respond To AMD Troll With A Little One Of Their Own Now, unless you are currently living under a rock, in terms of processors there are pretty much only 2 brands. Intel and AMD. As such, you can often expect a little bit of competition and rivalry between the two…
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Wetherspoons Pub Chain Decides To Quit Social Media
Wetherspoons quits social media due to data scandal and trolling If you’re looking for a cheap pint and something to eat, you often can’t go wrong by going to a Wetherspoons. No, I’m not advertising for them and neither am I a spokesman (they’re certainly not paying me, sadly), but…
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Twitter Is Taking Part in a Study To Reduce Online Abuse
Twitter Takes Part in a study to reduce online abusive When it comes to social media, you often don’t have to look far to find some toxic behavior. Safely hidden behind their keyboard some people find nothing better to do than spam toxic abuse at others. As such, Twitter is…
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Dad Trolls His Daughter For Cheating At Mario Kart
Dad Trolls His Daughter For Cheating At Mario Kart No one likes a cheater and in Mario Kart, there are various forms of cheating. You, of course, have the classic screen peaking tactic or the ‘whoops’ with your opponent’s controller one person’s daughter, however, clearly thought she’d invented Mario Kart cheating.…
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Mikes Rant – The Over and Misuse Of The Word Troll
Mikes Rant 2 – The Over and Misuse of the term ‘Troll’ Before I start, I think I should qualify that people being horrible to others is clearly not a nice thing to do. When it comes to the widespread media, however, I do have an axe to grind when…
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Toxic Overwatch Player Gets Wrecked by Jeff Kaplan
Overwatch is one of the most popular games in the world. With such a big user base, there are bound to be toxic players around which can ruin the fun for everyone else. For the most part, Overwatch has implemented changes and improved reporting systems to keep toxic players away.…
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