On Tuesday 16 December 2008 19:26, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > 2. If you report that something don't work, you need help, > than you are a troll, because it's not true.
No, what trolls would do on Linux technical lists is post repeatedly, innocently at first but with rising levels of aggression, crossposting to multiple lists even when replying to a post on only one of them, making demands for things to be fixed while refusing to provide necessary details or take the steps suggested by those offering to help. They'd make their way from list to list, saying "The _______ developers were completely unreasonable, but I know you guys will be better." They would submit "bug reports" of the sort that proprietary software developers would reject out of hand with a statement like "Buy the latest version and come back to me if it's still broken." They'd become more and more indignant, and also make claims like "people agree with me in private but are too afraid to speak up because of this vast conspiracy against the truth". Usually they'll wind up with "That does it, this Linux thing sucks, I'm going back to Windows." Then they sit back and watch the list become useless for a few weeks while people argue over how the troll's demands should have been handled. Plonk. Rob _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
