[Closed] who on here pulled the biggest troll of all history

The optician thread is my favourite.

Relating an allotment to the Middle East was a good un.

Why are you so focused on ‘most’ ‘least’ ‘richest’ etc type threads?

For objective analysis we'd need to know for certain that the motivation of the poster was purely to create controversy and/or antagonism as opposed to an honestly held opinion that happens to stir shit.

The term troll is regularly misapplied on here when people simply disagree with a contentious, controversial or different opinion.

The biggest ones would go unnoticed as a troll thread, a good troll isn’t obvious.

is it Mark making out we were having a new forum?

Other than that it's got to be God.

Relating an allotment to the Middle East was a good un.

Mr Nutt - genius
http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/my-bloody-allotment-is-being-taken-over

is it Mark making out we were having a new forum?

I’m with Jekkyl on this one. The shutting of the forum for update was a master stroke.

Back in the days between Half-Life 1 and 2, the pre-release hype over 2 was stratospheric. Everyone wanted an interview with Valve, and better if Gabe was there.

Valve were [i]careful[/i] in who they let see the game, and journos had an hour in a room with a rep and a dev from Valve to see the game in action. Some hands-on was permitted. Lots of copy-cat reviews started to appear in print.

At the time, I occasionally contributed articles to a now defunct online video gaming 'magazine', who'd been denied access to experience this fabled Valve HL2 demo. Tried and tried, but they just weren't big enough.

The mag was peeved. I offered to write up a sort of prank review. The premise was that I'd been allowed to play the last level. My description and narrative of it, for those who had long memories of video gaming, would have led the reader to realise by the end of the page that I had described a 3D FPS version of Donkey Kong, where Freeman was Mario.

It essentially sent up the ending of HL1, which was a 'how high can you try?' pixel-perfect jump-fest and a very incongruous addition to an otherwise excellent game.

The editor, who was as long in the tooth as I was, thought it was hilarious and ran it.

Gabe Newell/Valve PR didn't like it. Neither did all the puzzled, expectant fans. Neither did the editor, when the backlash began....

I was never asked to contribute again.

I have no interest in bivi and have never been ill.,,,

Just saying...

But apart from the Jerusalem allotment surely the biggest troll didn’t actually happen here but was a MN incursion

just enjoyed reading the allotment thread again, made all the better by the people claiming that it was historically inaccurate and that Hitler has nothing to do with the creation of the situation.

Hooked a few big fish that day.

Emily Green.

Art.

Emily Green.

CaptainFlashheart - Member

Emily Green.

Probably "India Jane" but not on here Charlie eh 😉

I remember WCAs thread about swapping his wife for a newer model. Anyone who knows him knows this will never happen but he had most of the forum hook, line and sinker if I recall correctly. 🙂

Is it the bloke that keeps moaning about taking his bike to the local bike mechanic?

Is it the Brother in Law, Simon?

Other than that it's got to be God.

God posts on single track? Must look harder.

simondbarnes - Member
Is it the bloke that keeps moaning about taking his bike to the local bike mechanic?

Have wondered if it's a bike shop / mechanic trolling us 😀

God posts on single track

Chewkw

Although it looks as though he's back under another alias

Having just spotted a thread with troll written all over it.

Is it worth separating quality trolling with just being a ****ing prick?

Both categories deserve a top 10 awards.

Do you ‘pull’ a troll?

Not for a lot of years now, since I got married especially.

At his pithy best 🙂

Chewkw

Although it looks as though he's back under another alias

He's not banned AFAIK.

(Which alias? Grass!)

Flapjackie for the win

Chewkw

Although it looks as though he's back under another alias

The Allotment thread is great. Not seen it before

Saw "Hora" and "Idave"

Cuterunner is my all-time favorite, annoying prick had everyone going for a while.

I trolled the Guardian once after taking inspiration from Quagmire.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/nov/25/sexual-healing-no-sex-retaliation

"I don't know, Peter. If you have sex with her, you give her all the power. If you don't have sex with her, you're gay. You can't win." - Quagmire

To this day, I like to wind up my oldest friend, a marxist Oxford graduate by telling him I got published in the Grauniad before he did.

Is it worth separating quality trolling with just being a **** prick?

This. Most people do not appreciate the art of a good troll.

Drac - Moderator

The biggest ones would go unnoticed as a troll thread

matt_outandabout about to the podium please! 😀

+1 sbob 😆

Not one vote 😐

Do you ‘pull’ a troll?

Clearly you've never been to The Purple Turtle in Reading

[quote=sbob ]matt_outandabout about to the podium please!

😆

One way ticket on the hell train please:
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=1017090

matt_outandabout about to the podium please! 

What was matt_outandabout's troll thread then? 🙂

[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/eu-referendum-are-you-in-or-out ]This...[/url]

TJ/me.

We're actually the same person.

sbob - Member
One way ticket on the hell train please:
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=1017090

Ok, that is genuinely petty cruel but I'm not going to lie. I did laugh. A lot. Whilst managing to feel pretty guilty at the same time!

zokes - Still not a customer
This...

Not trolling!

That thread makes me believe that we one day might actually invent a perpetual motion machine. 🙂

I really enjoyed the 9/11 thread late last year, it was a good mix between tin hat wearing nutter(s) and trolling IMO...

Similarly with the aeroplane/conveyor belt threads. You can never be sure who is trolling and who really [i]does[/i] think the plane can take off.

You can never be sure who is trolling and who really does think the plane can take off.

😆

One way ticket on the hell train please:
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=1017090

The other commuters are staring at me.

Hadn't read that thread from MrNutt before but that is breathtaking.

Also, a fine if thankfully short, opportunity to review Fred's typical output...

And - what's happened to our Croydon Commie?

There was a [s]fred[/s] thread a couple of days ago.

Hadn't read that thread from MrNutt before but that is breathtaking.

Christ, was that really seven years ago? 😯

Cougar - I think there has been some sort of time dilation going on. I had a similar thought about the bikepacking megathread.

Eddies in the space-time continuum.

Did he get lost?

The plane takes off.

I'd forgotten the allotment one. Is that where everyone said well done to the OP except Fred, who tried to make out that he'd not fallen for it 😀

DavidTaylforth has done some fine trolls.

What about the bigger rotor thread? I would like to read that one again.

Of course the plane takes off

Or have I been trolled

Boris. Played the long game. 1989 to 2016. 😯

Melania Trump, shirley?

I've never watched a game of rugby in my life!

anagallis_arvensis - Member

I've never watched a game of rugby in my life!

Now that I can believe 😉

Glupton’s zoo thread was full of fail. I’m not even sure if it was a troll or not.

It’s very weird how many “who’s the most x on here” threads the OP has started.

I just assumed he was Marks new apprentice/intern/nephew getting the click count up.

ampthill - Member
Of course the plane takes off

Or have I been trolled

Ooh. Well played sir. Very subtle. A very good example.

How about officer friendly.

http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/alpkit-big-shakeout

All the talk ofbivvying

Living offthe land with an ecr and an axe.

Then posted a picture of some full suspension of fairly high quality with mudguards and a pannier rack at like 45degrees to horizontal.