Jeroen wrote: >Mark is engaging in trolling and is not contributing anything constructive >to any discussion on this list; he does not appear to be interested in any >real discussion, but only in trolling. He is even offensive in some of his >posts, and his overall behaviour is such that if Brin-L were a Real-Life >debating forum instead of an on-line one, he would have been sent away >weeks ago. > >Mark reappeared on April 15th 2002. Since then, a total of 3,224 messages >have been posted to this list, 317 of which were Mark's. That means that >9.8% of all messages since April 15th have been trolls. Now, I can accept >an occassional troll, but when almost 10% of list traffic is made up of >trolling messages by one single poster, I think it is time to put an end to >it. > >From the looks of it, his trolling is getting worse by the week: > >Week Posts > 16 2 > 17 2 > 18 29 > 19 67 > 20 93 > 21 91 > 22 33 (in less than two days, so possibly >100 this week)
Jeroen, I agree with you in general terms, but not all 317 of Mark's posts have been trolls. He has posted at least a few interesting ideas to which a few of us have responded, hoping to encourage his reasonable posts. He's posted at least two polite replies to posts (one was a reply to a post by me, in fact). But I agree that Mark is becoming increasingly disruptive to Brin-l. We have to make a choice as a list. Option 1. We let Mark continue, and send the message that anybody can get away with just about anything on Brin-l, and risk encouraging more trolls and spammers and etc. Option 2. We temporarily bar Mark from the list as has been done once before, and risk getting the unfounded reputation as a place that is not inclusive. Reggie Bautista _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
