The Continuation of the Poll Crisis (Told in the perspective of UltimateGoldMine)

Hi. My name is GoldMine. At least, that's my user on GoComics. Here on Fandom, my user is UltimateGoldMine.

I read this wiki a lot. I am aware of that PUFFA guy. I'm aware of MartySays and the date of his first poll (November 15, 2017). I am aware of the three "Poll Wars". I'm aware of how BiggerNate91 trusted and defended MartySays after he proposed a false treaty.

Oh, well. We all make mistakes.

I dunno. This could make a good movie or something. It could be like "Knives Out".

But regardless, it IS pretty bad. Who am I in these battles? Well, it's sort of confusing. I'm half narwhal (defender of on-topic polls only) and half anti-poll (no polls at all). I am in favor of polls as long as they have something to do with the comic, but then again, people are NOT putting things that are on-topic, they are just putting dumb things on their comments.

Despite partly being a narwhal, rest assured, I do NOT support people like [random "Big Nate" character]Says, or PUFFA version 1 through 3.5, or that guy Heatman84. They were very bad. In fact, I believe people like that should not have the right to put stuff in the comment section if they are going to do stuff like that.

But this could be worse than POLLS. OHHHHH, much worse than polls. This is SPAM. MartySays announced the beginning of Poll War IV, but no, the next war could be SPAM WAR I.

My mission? To make sure that doesn't happen. See, here's the thing. Someone posts an on-topic poll, right? Then someone replies to it. THEN someone argues, and another person spams something really DUMB. Before you know it, this poll has almost A HUNDRED replies and the featured comment.

Reading The Wiki
Here's a timeline of events for you.

Starting June 8 or June 9 (I can't remember which day I started this week, honestly, might be 9) I started re-reading and reviewing the Big Nate Comments Wiki. Why did I do this? Well... I found it AMUSING. I knew it was TRUE, because I was in Poll War I, therefore I witnessed it myself. But hey, I laughed all day. I swear. I thought it was great. But then I realized that this whole thing was SERIOUS. I didn't like this MartySays guy OR his other "Says" accounts at ALL (whether they were impostors or the REAL MartySays, they TICKED ME OFF). I didn't like PUFFA, version 1 or version 2 or version 3 or (apparently) VERSION 3.5 NOW. I didn't like Heatman84 either (although I saw MartySays as the main antagonist here). The whole thing SUCKED. It was a good lesson about what could happen when total strangers have access to a public comments section.

Taking Action
I knew I had to do something to make sure another POLL WAR didn't happen.

So on the night of June 11, at 10:08, when tomorrow's comic was already put on there (as they put it on at this time for some reason), I posted this comment.

"Guys, a reminder to please not post spam here. This is supposed to be an on-topic area for talking about the comic. We don't want to start another conflict or anything. Also if you see spam, just please click the flag icon and not start an argument. I'm trying to keep this place safe. Thank you." -Me, June 11, 2020. I figured telling people to cool their jets would slow down the spam thing.

While I was on the comments section that night, making sure there was less spam on the comments section, I noticed THIS comment. "Poll: what is your least favorite poll?" -IsaiahJohn, June 11, 2020.

This WAS spam, but I ignored it that night. I didn't flag it or anything because it only had like two replies at the time. I guessed it was fine. Besides, maybe MY comment would help stop this madness and deny this guy the many replies he was hoping for. I closed my laptop and went to bed.

The Next Morning
Okay, so the next morning, June 12, I logged onto GoComics and HOLY MACKEREL.

It seemed my comment about not putting in spam only got four replies and three likes. But I was fine with this, as I didn't want to get the featured comment or anything. I'm not a hypocrite. The thing that shocked me was that IsaiahJohn's "least favorite poll" comment had just one like, but over EIGHTY-FIVE REPLIES!!!!! What was worse, it had the featured comment. And that was bad because all the replies were filled with bullying, hatred, spam, and fierce arguments.

I think most of all the crap in the replies to this terrible poll was caused by this user called sYOBON1. Literally the first reply was the poll itself (What is your least favorite poll?) in CAPITAL LETTERS. LITERALLY UNBELIEVABLE.

And this sYOBON1? He didn't stop there. He kept repeating the comments of ANYONE who replied to him, the first character lowercase, and the rest ENTIRELY COMPOSED OF FREAKING CAPITAL LETTERS!!!!! When IsaiahJohn saw this, he protested. But guess what sYOBON1 said back?

A lot of people just hated this guy, as he was causing the amount of replies to Isaiah's weird poll to grow exponentially. So some replies were things like "I am an idiot." Those guys hoped sYOBON1 would copy them.

Sometimes it worked, mostly it didn't.

I was TICKED OFF. So I posted a reply to the poll of my OWN.

"Oh my goodness. Look at all this. THIS is what I was talking about. I'm flagging this comment right now." -Me, June 12, 2020. Then I flagged the poll, as well as every one of sYBON1's troll comments. Afterwards, I did some more digging and found out that sYOBON1 was actually a TROLL ACCOUNT in the place of the user Syobon. It was the same guy, but without the capital letters and the 1. I checked out Syobon's profile.

"I am the real Syobon, the legendary copycat." -Sybon's account bio.

So yeah, the black cat Syobon was a fake. To compare, I checked the profile of sYOBON1.

"MISSED ME"?????? What the heck?? Oh... gosh. Okay, that's what happened. I tried to stop the madness, but it clearly did not work.

Thank you. I will update this page in the future with more events to add to the timeline. It looks like we have yet ANOTHER Poller. Aw, geeeeeez....

Update: The comment section for today's strip (June 12, 2020) currently has 299 COMMENTS and Isaiah's poll has 123 replies. Plus, some people are posting unacceptable comments on there (I'm not gonna mention them by account name). This includes sYOBON1. He's STILL doing the capital letters thing!!! Gosh, it's only a stupid comments section!

Update: I just realized something about sYOBON1's comments. Look closely at the picture above (the picture way above there, of IsaiahJohn and sYOBON1). I just noticed that he's rewriting everyone's significant comment, except HOLDING SHIFT. That's how he's doing it. If you see these opposite comments, please either flag or ignore them.

Final Update: 317 comments. I... just can't. I'm done. For now.

The Deletion of IsaiahJohn's Comment
So, I just got done watching YouTube (because it's SUMMER for gosh sakes). I turned it off, pondered what I should do next, when I gasped. "THE COMMENT SECTION!" I had to make sure it was still safe!

I got onto GoComics, typed in "big nate", and... saw this next to the comic.

I thought: What???

I was so confused. 217 comments? It had over 300 this morning...

I clicked on the button, saw the regular comments. Nothing all that bad. But then I realized: IsaiahJohn's weird "What is your least favorite poll?" comment, along with ALL of its replies, was GONE!!!

What LUCK! Oh, boy, that poll was really a pain in my side. I guess my flagging worked! The GoComics moderators must have deleted the whole thing!

Or... Isaiah could have deleted it himself. But my other theory is more likely.

The new featured comment was given to the user Clara Godfrey. It was a poll, but it was only "Poll: What is your least favourite Big Nate character?" So it was still relevant to Big Nate. Not really spam.

Just be aware: There ARE other trolls, spammers, and pollers still out there, including that sYOBON guy and his other account, sYOBON1.

Just be aware of this. I will further update this article as more things happen!

Days Later
Man, things have... HAPPENED.

Today is June 17. There have been polls, but not really conflicts and/or "wars". The polls were relevant to the strip.

But there have been a lot of ANTI-POLL comments, too. Some people just do NOT like polls at ALL, even if the poller's intention is obviously not to spam and/or get featured comment.

Wanna see an example?

Boom. Wish granted. "This comment section has turned into a survey board, not a comment section. Attention to all the people out there, POLLING DOES NOT MAKE YOU COOL!" -ComicRater, June 16, 2020.

You know, I am against stupid spam, but... oh, gosh. Some people are really not understanding the "flag and ignore" ideology. By putting comments like THESE, they are just getting closer and closer to starting Poll War IV or Spam War I. (I like to call it that.)

I mean, 45 replies?? 26 likes? Does he really think doing things like that will get him what he wants?

Oh, and I'm not even DONE.

This comment appeared today, June 17. Or I think. Not super familiar with the date it was posted. Just say the 17th. "(Insert news music) This is Dumb Smarto in the Big...." -Dumb Smarto says Happy Pride Month!, June 17, 2020.

Sorry, I'm too lazy to type the entire comment.

Spam? Probably.

You may be thinking, "But it only has two replies."

Well, it DID. As you can see, I took this screenshot 22 minutes after it was put up. It has to have a lot more likes now.

Or maybe it's deleted. I think someone took it down, 'cause I CANNOT FIND IT.

He's right, though. Another poll war (or the first spam war, SERIOUSLY!!!) might happen. It might not, but people just aren't listening to those who say "flag and ignore". It's RIDICULOUS.

I'll keep you posted. This is GoldMine, aka UltimateGoldMine, aka CaptainGoldMine, aka HumanGoldMine, aka BadAtMCPvP, signing off!!