Trolling (was Re: Debian nolonger claims to be the "Universal Operating System")
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On 10/04/2014 at 07:31 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> On 04/10/14 12:14, Lisi Reisz wrote:
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>> On Saturday 04 October 2014 11:44:43 Tom Collins wrote:
>>
>>> Worthless trash. They need to be stopped, deposed.
>>
>> This sort of thing makes me so angry. Is "Tom Collins" "Gregory
>> Smith" by another name?
>>
>> Please, ban anyone whose "discussion" descends to this low
>> level.
>
> It's probably best to just ignore/killfile these trolls, Lisi.
> They revelin the attention they get.
I don't think most of the people who post things like that are "trolls"
in the classic sense. I think it's more likely that most of them are
just very, very angry, or possibly just outraged, to the point that it
overrides both politeness and (at least to some degree) rationality.
Trolling, at least classically speaking, is about "posting to cause a
furor" - i.e., trying to get a rise out of the surrounding community
regardless of what you have to say in order to do it. A fair amount of
what sometimes gets called trolling nowadays doesn't really fit that
description, and I think it's unfortunate to label it the same way.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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