Hi Curtis, I am curious when you use the word, "troll", what your criteria is for applying this label to someone else? I think of an internet troll as someone who posts something simply to attack someone or rile up a group of people. That happens A LOT around here, and certainly I can include myself in the trolling group at times. So I am curious how the label applies to those on whom you affix it? Given the broad attribute of the word, I suspect you may be using it selectively, vs. neutrally?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <authfriend@> wrote: > > > > Just for starters... > > And what a start it was. That old nuance thing... > > You really can't discern the difference here? I know they share some of the > same characteristics but you really can't see the critical significant > difference? > > Hint: in one case the violence is imagined about himself to make it look like > he is being hurt violently by what was said personally. > > In the other it is a vivid image of what trolls do when not posting here. > > But don't sweat it, Ravi also lacks the emotional intelligence to sort this > out either, but then English is his second language and you are supposed to > be an editor so... > > Now run along and sift through dozens of posts to find things that sound like > what I said at the most superficial level, fly away little starling, fly fly > fly fly fly. > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > <snip> > > [quoting Robin from last week] > > > R: <I did get what you meant. It was a just rebuke--as gently > > > administered as it was. But one gash is enough--I have lost > > > enough blood in all our battles, Curtis--one last wound: > > > somehow this seems fitting to me.> > > > > > > M: > > > Putting the violent metaphor spin aside, (Have you noticed your > > > consistent characterization of any feedback you don't like in > > > this over dramatic way?) > > > > Curtis, back in September, after receiving some feedback > > he didn't like: > > > > To raunchydog: > > > > > "Does the word brutally' make you think of blood, how it > > > > > smells? The warmth on your tongue, before it clots with > > > > > its delicious mineral taste, somewhere between liver and > > > > > raw steak." > > > > To Robin: > > > > > "The fact that it might bug me to have my name signed to > > > > > a post that makes me out to be an effete drama teacher > > > > > who revels in fey triumphalist statements went over the > > > > > heads of the troll revelers, intoxicated with their > > > > > sturdy goblets of human baby blood as they danced around > > > > > the flickering flames of having taunted someone online > > > > > and gotten him to respond." > > >
