From Cooks and Liars, for Simon Ward:
Don't feed the Trolls
from Crooks and Liars by John Amato
With the primaries upon us—there is no shortage of trolls.
Atrios:
I cannot make anyone stop responding to pointless or nuisance
comments. You have to want to restrain yourself, because you
understand that the only way to get rid of them is to fail to give
them the attention they want. A "troll" is not just someone whose
comments you disagree with, or even just a nasty or badly-worded
comment. A troll is someone who does not, under any possible set of
circumstances, care what you think about him or his comments.
He merely wants attention. Negative attention will do. The more
you disagree with him, the more he is able to tell himself that he is
persecuted and victimized or the only voice of reason or one of the
elite few who has the God's-eye view of the world or whatever his
current delusion is …and there's more.
More: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/01/27/dont-feed-the-trolls/
On Jan 28, 2008 9:12 AM, Leigh Meyers
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2008 2:08 AM, Simon Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Carrol decleared: "Total mishmash"
> >
> > So I'll shutup.
> >
>
> Ignore him... He'll go away.
>
