I feel that with all of this stuff happening at the moment, that any action taken by any moderator or admin is justified at the time they do it.  For some reason, we've been getting a lot of trolls lately... at least it's not because of nDoom, Mrakoplaz seems to have stopped working on it (unfortunately)

We do get bashed by other places (I won't say, but since besides nikky-land.com there's only like 2-3 other active calc sites, I can assume you can figure out where the spread comes from ), but maybe it's just because of our different policies.  If they can't bring the concern they have to us here, then we have no reason to have to consider the complaints they make.

I think that good diplomacy on our parts may help reduce it, though.

So that's the start of the invasion of trollz?

Actually we did not have new trolls since at least mid-March. The problem is that when the troll invasion ended, certain people that are barely active here put their nose into our affairs, criticising the way we handled the situation, so problems continued, the channel closed and afterward there was an upsurge in Omni bashing occuring elsewhere (which actually happened shortly before too, to a lower extent). Then two people started browsing our site logged in only to find stuff to troll about in the IRC channels they're active the most on. The real troll invasion lasted roughly 4 weeks. The aftermath was a different problem, which, however, would probably have happened to a much lower extent if the initial troll invasion did not occur.

From what I can gather, however, a lot of the bashing was mostly complaining about how things are done here, and sadly, this seems to be by human nature to complain about stuff without telling the right people directly. I am pretty sure that not all the people involved did it for the purpose of tarnishing our reputation, although it is still frustrating when you spent years of work on a site trying to offer something different to the community, then you login on a random site, channel, only to read that stuff about you or your site. Let's say that sometimes this happened at the wrong moment, so it's inevitable that negative reactions could have occured then.

I think the best solution is that if you don't like reading that stuff, avoid places where it's said or if you still go there, avoid bringning it up in #omnimaga, so it won't escalate.