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===Vent harassment===
Oftentimes [[Troll_(Internet)|troll]]s and hackers who infiltrate unprotected{{citation-needed|date=February 2011}} [[Ventrilo]] (Vent) server [[chatroom]]s use soundboards to harass, confuse, or [[gaslight]] the users of the chatroom. A wide variety of soundboards are used for this purpose, and sometimes the troll records the users and quickly creates a victim soundboard ''(see above)'' of them, then uses the soundboard against the users, often with humorous results. The victims usually attempt to ban the troll from the chatroom -- to which the troll usually responds by logging back in with different [[username]]s -- or to mute the troll so as not to be disturbed by the harassment. Sometimes the victims attempt to protect the server with a [[password]], but are often helpless to do this or to ban the user, because the [[administrator]] of the server is not present, or because they do not know how, or because they are too busy playing [[multiplayer|multiplayer video game]]s about which they are chatting.{{citation-needed|date=February 2011}} (The trolls often deride the victims as "nerds" for their activities and use of Vent to collaborate, although the irony is that the troll is doing something even more useless and antisocial.) Also, muting the troll does not stop the troll from recording their conversation and subsequently posting it on the Web.
==Comment from an uninvolved user==
Hi; I came here in response to your [[WP:3O]] request.
*First things first: Intentionally adding text with a {{tl|citation-needed}} tag is an admission that you don't have a source for the content. This is very difficult to reconcile with [[WP:V]] which is surely a (or ''the'') core policy of wikipedia; please try not to do it. If you don't have a source for text that might be challenged, don't add it. Of course, other editors can and should try to improve the article - and right now the improvement it needs most is sources - but if unsourced text gets removed, the person who added it only has themselves to blame.
*On a minor point, at the moment I think the section is a bit overwhelming relative to the rest of the article.
*Finally, I want to thank anyone involved for being civil. When there's a dispute it's all too easy to let tempers fray (and then it's harder to resolve the dispute because people start sniping at each other), but everybody has been polite here, and that's a Very Good Thing. [[User:Bobrayner|bobrayner]] ([[User talk:Bobrayner|talk]]) 21:41, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
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