When I join a list I am always on the lookout for the camouflaged troll. This might be the sincere old-timer who has gotten away with it since day one, or the newbie who plays the active members the way an itinerant pool shark plays the hall regulars, or the girl who stands in the middle of the road screaming about her cat up a tree. Every substantial list has them.
Most members would identify certain other members as trolls. Not everyone agrees who the trolls are because their disguises are fairly effective. But almost everyone suspects that the group would recover and flourish if only certain others would cease posting. I have seen lists improved by the activities of trolls. I have seen them wrecked beyond repair. You never know whether a troll would ruin it by pissing on it, or just pissing in an ocean of piss, or even pissing in a primordial pool that could put a bit of urea to good use. Given that the effect of trolling on a list is unknown at the outset, how should one evaluate the opportunity to troll a list? How should a moderator evaluate list members? Andy Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
