VOTE NOW for Chess.com Troll of the Month - Oct. 2013

Voting has ended! Congratulations to Sebleb, the final winner of this contest!

Nominations for the Nov. 2013 Chess.com Troll of the Month contest are currently in progress. To participate in the nominations please go to this thread:

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/off-topic/nominations-for-chesscom-troll-of-the-month---nov-2013

Thanks to nominations from the chess.com community, 10 members have made it onto the final ballot of the first Chess.com Troll of the Month contest. They are, listed in alphabetical order:

90007000

- http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/sholud-we-delete-the-forum-can-you-respond-to-a-double-check-with-a-double-check

- http://www.chess.com/members/view_content/90007000 (names of threads)

BigOto

- http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/nominations-for-chesscom-troll-of-the-month---oct-2013?page=5, post #92

Macer75

- http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/nominations-for-chesscom-troll-of-the-month---oct-2013

- http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/basic-openings

- http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/does-anyone-recognize-these-chess-pieces, post #10

- http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/senator-ted-cruz, post #2

Sebleb0210

- http://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-showcase/your-free-lessons-by-sebastien-lebel--sebleb0210--lesson-2?page=1

Sloughterchess

- http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/is-the-main-line-of-the-fried-liver-wrong

SupremeOverlord

- http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/chess-is-a-board-game-and-nothing-more?page=1

- http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/post-your-immortal-games-here

- http://www.chess.com/forum/view/fun-with-chess/so-you-run-intro-carlsen-at-the-corner-shop?page=1, post #19

TheArtofWar82

- http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/breaking-the-1500-barrier?page=33, and p38

- http://www.chess.com/forum/view/help-support/racist-comments-in-chats, post #10

TheARBChessSystem

- http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/komodo-chess-program-crushed---using-the-arb-chess-system

Ultimate-Fighter

- http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/losing-really-sucks?page=4, posts #70, 72, 78, 79, 80, 84, 94, 96

Xieff

- http://www.chess.com/forum/view/off-topic/why-evolution-is-bogus

Now, it is up to the community to decide which of these members is most deserving of the title of Troll of the Month, based on the threads and comments that they have been nominated for. The rules of this stage of the contest are listed out in the first post of the nominations thread, with the only change being that the voting period will last for 14 days, instead of the previously proposed 7 days. To summarize, each chess.com member may cast one vote, and at the end of the voting period, the nominee with the greatest number of votes will be declared the winner. Also, please note that nominations for the contest have already closed, so no new nominees may be added onto the ballot. The only members that are competing in the contest are the 10 nominees on the ballot.

Now, let the voting begin!

Current Votes:

90007000 - 0

Bigoto - 1

Macer75 - 7

Sebleb0210 - 16

Sloughterchess - 0

SupremeOverlord - 0

TheArtofWar82 - 2

TheARBChessSystem - 3

Ultimate-Fighter - 2

Xieff - 12

I'm voting for Ultimate-Fighter

By Troll, you mean who is the funniest person who posts?  Or who is the most mean spirited, confrontation - seeking, annoying one? 

Which type do you mean here?

Yes, you can. Even after the contest has ended and you win, you can still refuse to receive your award. But of course I don't think that will actually happen.

Btw, I thought u were gonna vote for Sebleb.

Well, it's up to you to decide. Who do you think was the most outstanding at trolling, either by being outrageously funny or by being incredibly annoying?

Oh, ok.  I suppose it could mean either - or.

I have made up my mind. I was going to vote for his lesson, but he is not funny at all. He fails.

I have looked at the list one by one. And My choice is TAW82. I think he is funny because he certainly has no slightest idea with his posts. Yet he posted them thinking he would get applause. Well TAW82 you are a troll.

macer 75

Applause for informed voting!

should vote for this guy troll picture of the month are just give him something becuase he must need the attention http://www.chess.com/photos/view_album/YoungChessGenius/rate-and-comment-please2

I vote for SebLeb0210.

Yup, I'm gonna do that right now.

Unfortunately nominations have closed, so no new nominees can be put on the ballot.

I vote for TheARBChessSystem

I've fed him regularly.

So far it seems like a pretty even race!

I vote for him too. As a sidenote, when I messaged him and asked him to stop trolling, he blocked me! (first time I've ever been blocked, I think).

xieff

jk

I made up my mind, and decided to vote for a disruptive troll instead of a funny one ; one who would destroy the forums the fastest.

90007000 is just an attention seeker, so does not present any real danger. BigOto is just an "all work and no play" Jack, and causes no disruption. macer75 is no serious contender either. Sebleb is actually trying to help, though borderline attention-seeker, so he's out too. TheARBChessSystem,  is of the same kind of toothless trolls.

All links of SupremeOverlord but the first one are nice and mild trolling. However, I dismissed him still, because despite his aggressivity, he actually makes logical argumentation about a point related to chess.

Ultimate_Fighter looks like a serious contender ; however, I attribute his posts to ignorance and his aggressivity to youth.

The two remaining contenders, TheArtofWar and Xieff, are serious trolls, but of a different kind. Although Xieff made a trolling thread intentionally, proving malignity, TheArtofWar has such a huge ego that the game is roughly equal.

Despite having myself nominated Xieff, I finally decide to vote for TheArtofWar82, who displays in a nutshell the perfect trolling attitude of switching the topic at will, ignoring arguments, aggressivity and pride AND all this in a chess-related topic. But if Xieff talked more about himself, he would have gotten my vote.

I vote for SupremeOverlord, because he is 'sincerely' looking to disbalance your expectations and he is funny.  His thread about posting your immortal games was a laugh. I took the bait, because I was wondering if it was indeed a collection of beautiful games.

I don't understand the reasoning of Irontiger. Considering his own behaviour should he be perfectly capable of defining what a good and entertaining troll is, but to select the two that are actually very serious about what they write?

That is an argument in the category of 'explode the airplane to prevent a terroristic attack'-fallacy.

What is the price? Becoming banned without a warning, but not entering the cheater list? Or 15 minutes of fame with an interview about a not favorite subject?

I vote for LoekBergman ! 

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