Re: First Pluto is not a planet, and now . . . .
They also believe... ...that some cosmic jewish zombie, who is his own father, can make you live forever if you symbolicawy eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul, that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree. To quote a meme. ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Trolls
Some time ago I unsubscribed from this list because of the comments of one person who has since matured. Now I am having a similar problem with someone on Dr. Brin's FB page. I sent him the following e-mail and then it occurred to me I could just ask the list: I have a question you may not be able to answer, David, about how to block Facebook trolls if I can't access their page to do so. As I participate more and more on Facebook, I discovered out that it is possible to selectively delete, or block, specific persons from reading your comments, so you don't know if they are responding to something you posted, and making personal attacks. Kind of a coward's way to avoid honest debate. I realize that sometimes there are excellent reasons for blocking someone, such as when it's clear that a dialog is incapable of going anywhere and someone is just trying to get your goat. Blocking them eliminates them from engaging you to participate in further futile interaction. That's not what this is; it's two people (who are possibly the same person) who blocked me after I figured out what they were doing. They can still read and respond to my posts, but without me knowing. I tried to block them so they can no longer respond to my comments, but since already blocked me, I cannot do the same to them. One of them sent me private messages, gloating, and I can't even respond to that. The other even has a profile picture of a troll!~) I would stop replying, but I thoroughly enjoy participating in the civilized discourse with others on your page. It is extremely irritating to see others responding to the troll's comments following mine, and not know what was said... My question is; how can I block them after they have already blocked me from finding them on FB? Thanks, Jon Mann ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: Trolls
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Jon Louis Mann net_democr...@yahoo.com wrote: Some time ago I unsubscribed from this list because of the comments of one person who has since matured. Now I am having a similar problem with someone on Dr. Brin's FB page. If there is nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe. --ST:TNG, Dr. Beverly Crusher ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: Trolls
On 9/7/2010 3:19 PM, John Williams wrote: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Jon Louis Mannnet_democr...@yahoo.com wrote: Some time ago I unsubscribed from this list because of the comments of one person who has since matured. Now I am having a similar problem with someone on Dr. Brin's FB page. If there is nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe. --ST:TNG, Dr. Beverly Crusher John-- Well, that was certainly helpful. ---David I'm no help either, though. ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: Trolls
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:39 PM, David Hobby hob...@newpaltz.edu wrote: Well, that was certainly helpful. ---David I'm no help either, though. We both helped increase list traffic, which has been quite low... ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: Trolls
On 9/7/2010 20:43, John Williams wrote: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:39 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote: Well, that was certainly helpful. ---David I'm no help either, though. We both helped increase list traffic, which has been quite low... To be perfectly frank, I don't think anyone can be of much help on this matter with regard to Facebook. I think Facebook has made it perfectly clear that it is not in the business of enabling discussion. It's in the business of selling ads... Unfortunately, trolls use ads too. I suspect trolls actually use more ads, thus paying for the right to be jerks, but I certainly don't have the ad metrics to data mine in order to test that particular hypothesis. The lesson: more privately hosted mailing lists, less Facebook. Please. -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: First Pluto is not a planet, and now . . . .
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Euan Ritchie e...@ritchie.net.nz wrote: They also believe... ...that some cosmic jewish zombie, who is his own father, can make you live forever if you symbolicawy eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul, that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree. To quote a meme. Makes the FSM sound downright believable, no? Doug ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
