Trolling

2008-09-23 Thread Jon Louis Mann
  I have no fsking idea what you are trolling about.

 That makes two of us! I'm having a good day if I
 understand more that 50% of what I am trolling about.

Trolling is Internet slang is someone who posts controversial, irrelevant or 
off-topic messages in online community discussion forums, or chat rooms, with 
the intention of provoking other users into an emotional response, or to 
deliberately disrupt normal on-topic discussion. It is a practice often used by 
those who can not refute an argument using reason and logic, or someone who 
just enjoys baiting anyone who has a divergent opinion. [sic]
Jon


  
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Re: Trolling

2008-09-23 Thread John Williams
Jon Louis Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED]


 Trolling is Internet slang is someone who posts controversial, irrelevant or 
 off-topic messages in online community discussion forums, or chat rooms, with 
 the intention of provoking other users into an emotional response, or to 
 deliberately disrupt normal on-topic discussion. It is a practice often used 
 by 
 those who can not refute an argument using reason and logic, or someone who 
 just 
 enjoys baiting anyone who has a divergent opinion. [sic]

My sister has this little yappy dog. When I read your posts, I often find myself
thinking of it. What do you suppose it would type (if it had fingers)? Maybe it
could use its nose?


  

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Trolling

2008-09-23 Thread Jon Louis Mann
  Trolling is Internet slang is someone who posts
 controversial, irrelevant or 
  off-topic messages in on line community discussion
 forums, or chat rooms, with 
  the intention of provoking other users into an
 emotional response, or to 
  deliberately disrupt normal on-topic discussion. It is
 a practice often used by 
  those who can not refute an argument using reason and
 logic, or someone who just 
  enjoys baiting anyone who has a divergent opinion.
 [sic]
 
 My sister has this little yappy dog. When I read your
 posts, I often find myself
 thinking of it. What do you suppose it would type (if it
 had fingers)? Maybe it could use its nose?

projecting again, john?  has it ever occurred to you why some dogs have flat 
noses?*)  it's not from pressing their nostrils to a keyboard...
jon


  
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RE: trolling for trolls

2005-05-19 Thread Kevin Street
 It seems we have more nattering ninnies! But a new breed, cowardly
 whiners who only can whine when their victim can't read them! We have
 known for a while that Brin-L is full of passive-agressives who whine
 constantly while running sneaky attacks on people behind their backs. In
 case anyone missed it, David Brin himself pointed it out a while back.

 Incidentally, this thread is still missing a few countries from the Axis
 of Eggheads.

 My threaded email client is ready, and my left middle finger needs
 something to do!

Is this some kind of subtle parody? It seems wildly out of place for Brin-L.

Kevin Street

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Re: trolling for trolls

2005-05-19 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On May 19, 2005, at 1:26 AM, Kevin Street wrote:
Is this some kind of subtle parody?
It might very well be.
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Re: trolling for trolls

2005-05-19 Thread Kanandarqu


   Incidentally, this thread is still missing a few 
   countries from the Axis of Eggheads.

If you are waiting for me to chime in...
my momma taught me not to go near
wild things that are frothing at the mouth
Dee
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RE: trolling for trolls

2005-05-19 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 03:26 AM Thursday 5/19/2005, Kevin Street wrote:
Is this some kind of subtle parody? It seems wildly out of place for Brin-L.

Because of its subtlety, of course.  Not because it is parody.
-- Ronn!  :)
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Re: trolling for trolls

2005-05-19 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:23 AM Thursday 5/19/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you are waiting for me to chime in...
my momma taught me not to go near
wild things that are frothing at the mouth
Yo momma warn't no dummy!
-- Ronn!  :)
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Re: trolling for trolls

2005-05-19 Thread Maru Dubshinki
On 5/18/05, Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 * Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 
  I've been asked to ask you to tone it down on personal attacks
  on-list.
 
  If you make many more personal attacks on-list, the probability of
  your being placed on moderation will be non-zero.

But... probabilities that are negative, or greater than 1- simply make
no sense! Unpossible!


~Maru
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Re: trolling for trolls

2005-05-19 Thread Maru Dubshinki
On 5/19/05, Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 At 05:52 PM Wednesday 5/18/2005, Nick Arnett wrote:
 On Wed, 18 May 2005 18:45:15 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote
   * Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
  
I've been asked to ask you to tone it down on personal attacks
on-list.
   
If you make many more personal attacks on-list, the probability of
your being placed on moderation will be non-zero.
 
 Posting a private e-mail to the public list, which I'm fairly certain was
 done
 without Julia's permission, is lousy netiquette.
 
 
 On a couple of other lists I am a member of, doing that or its converse
 (forwarding an on-list message off-list) is grounds for immediate
 dismissal, regardless of who does it or how long they have been there or
 how well liked they are.  That policy got started a year or two ago when
 someone (who was lurking under an assumed name, it seems) forwarded
 out-of-context excerpts from one list member's posts to that list members
 RL employer, which led to that person being forced into early retirement
 from the teaching job he had held for several decades.
 
 
 -- Ronn!  :)

And some people wondered why I use a pseudonym- well, there you go.


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You didn't think this was my real name, did you?
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trolling for trolls

2005-05-18 Thread Erik Reuter
* Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

 I've been asked to ask you to tone it down on personal attacks
 on-list.

 If you make many more personal attacks on-list, the probability of
 your being placed on moderation will be non-zero.

It seems we have more nattering ninnies! But a new breed, cowardly
whiners who only can whine when their victim can't read them! We have
known for a while that Brin-L is full of passive-agressives who whine
constantly while running sneaky attacks on people behind their backs. In
case anyone missed it, David Brin himself pointed it out a while back.

Incidentally, this thread is still missing a few countries from the Axis
of Eggheads.

My threaded email client is ready, and my left middle finger needs
something to do!

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Re: trolling for trolls

2005-05-18 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, 18 May 2005 18:45:15 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote
 * Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 
  I've been asked to ask you to tone it down on personal attacks
  on-list.
 
  If you make many more personal attacks on-list, the probability of
  your being placed on moderation will be non-zero.

Posting a private e-mail to the public list, which I'm fairly certain was done 
without Julia's permission, is lousy netiquette.

Here's another official warning, in public, since you've chosen to make this 
public -- my perception is that you've made a number of personal attacks 
lately, which are contrary to our list policies.

Nick
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Re: trolling for trolls

2005-05-18 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 05:52 PM Wednesday 5/18/2005, Nick Arnett wrote:
On Wed, 18 May 2005 18:45:15 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote
 * Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

  I've been asked to ask you to tone it down on personal attacks
  on-list.
 
  If you make many more personal attacks on-list, the probability of
  your being placed on moderation will be non-zero.
Posting a private e-mail to the public list, which I'm fairly certain was 
done
without Julia's permission, is lousy netiquette.

On a couple of other lists I am a member of, doing that or its converse 
(forwarding an on-list message off-list) is grounds for immediate 
dismissal, regardless of who does it or how long they have been there or 
how well liked they are.  That policy got started a year or two ago when 
someone (who was lurking under an assumed name, it seems) forwarded 
out-of-context excerpts from one list member's posts to that list members 
RL employer, which led to that person being forced into early retirement 
from the teaching job he had held for several decades.

-- Ronn!  :)
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Re: trolling for trolls

2005-05-18 Thread Dave Land
On May 18, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 05:52 PM Wednesday 5/18/2005, Nick Arnett wrote:
On Wed, 18 May 2005 18:45:15 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote
 * Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

  I've been asked to ask you to tone it down on personal attacks
  on-list.
 
  If you make many more personal attacks on-list, the probability of
  your being placed on moderation will be non-zero.
Posting a private e-mail to the public list, which I'm fairly certain
was done without Julia's permission, is lousy netiquette.
On a couple of other lists I am a member of, doing that or its converse
(forwarding an on-list message off-list) is grounds for immediate
dismissal, regardless of who does it or how long they have been there 
or
how well liked they are.
I had just discussed this kind of abuse in an off-list exchange with a
manager of a list that I am on, in which I echoed Ronn!'s experience:
there are plenty of lists on which the forwarding of off-list messages
without permission is grounds for banning, if not heavy moderation.
BUT: before we rush to judgment, I don't think we've heard from
either Julia or Erik as to whether she'd given him permission. Also, the
list's Etiquette Guidelines 
http://www.mccmedia.com/brin-l/etiquette.htm
do not specifically address this issue, and not everyone has had Ronn!'s
experience with other lists that observe it. It may simply be a matter 
of
learning, like not top-posting.

Dave
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Re: trolling for trolls

2005-05-18 Thread William T Goodall
On 19 May 2005, at 1:32 am, Dave Land wrote:
On May 18, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:

At 05:52 PM Wednesday 5/18/2005, Nick Arnett wrote:
On Wed, 18 May 2005 18:45:15 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote
 * Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

  I've been asked to ask you to tone it down on personal attacks
  on-list.
 
  If you make many more personal attacks on-list, the  
probability of
  your being placed on moderation will be non-zero.

Posting a private e-mail to the public list, which I'm fairly  
certain
was done without Julia's permission, is lousy netiquette.

On a couple of other lists I am a member of, doing that or its  
converse
(forwarding an on-list message off-list) is grounds for immediate
dismissal, regardless of who does it or how long they have been  
there or
how well liked they are.

I had just discussed this kind of abuse in an off-list exchange with a
manager of a list that I am on, in which I echoed Ronn!'s experience:
there are plenty of lists on which the forwarding of off-list messages
without permission is grounds for banning, if not heavy moderation.
BUT: before we rush to judgment, I don't think we've heard from
either Julia or Erik as to whether she'd given him permission.  
Also, the
list's Etiquette Guidelines http://www.mccmedia.com/brin-l/ 
etiquette.htm
do not specifically address this issue, and not everyone has had  
Ronn!'s
experience with other lists that observe it. It may simply be a  
matter of
learning, like not top-posting.

Since it looks like the Julia's message was in her capacity as a list- 
admin that muddies the waters a bit more it seems to me. Especially  
since one of the people involved is Nick who is the list owner.

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Re: trolling for trolls

2005-05-18 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 07:32 PM Wednesday 5/18/2005, Dave Land wrote:
On May 18, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 05:52 PM Wednesday 5/18/2005, Nick Arnett wrote:
On Wed, 18 May 2005 18:45:15 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote
 * Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

  I've been asked to ask you to tone it down on personal attacks
  on-list.
 
  If you make many more personal attacks on-list, the probability of
  your being placed on moderation will be non-zero.
Posting a private e-mail to the public list, which I'm fairly certain
was done without Julia's permission, is lousy netiquette.
On a couple of other lists I am a member of, doing that or its converse
(forwarding an on-list message off-list) is grounds for immediate
dismissal, regardless of who does it or how long they have been there or
how well liked they are.
I had just discussed this kind of abuse in an off-list exchange with a
manager of a list that I am on, in which I echoed Ronn!'s experience:
there are plenty of lists on which the forwarding of off-list messages
without permission is grounds for banning, if not heavy moderation.
BUT: before we rush to judgment, I don't think we've heard from
either Julia or Erik as to whether she'd given him permission. Also, the
list's Etiquette Guidelines http://www.mccmedia.com/brin-l/etiquette.htm
do not specifically address this issue, and not everyone has had Ronn!'s
experience with other lists that observe it. It may simply be a matter of
learning, like not top-posting.

Just to be clear:  I only mentioned the rules of that other list to show 
that some places it is justifiably considered more than just bad 
netiquette to do that  I am not advocating any change in the list guidelines.


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Re: trolling for trolls

2005-05-18 Thread Julia Thompson
William T Goodall wrote:
On 19 May 2005, at 1:32 am, Dave Land wrote:
On May 18, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:

At 05:52 PM Wednesday 5/18/2005, Nick Arnett wrote:
On Wed, 18 May 2005 18:45:15 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote
 * Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

  I've been asked to ask you to tone it down on personal attacks
  on-list.
 
  If you make many more personal attacks on-list, the  probability of
  your being placed on moderation will be non-zero.
Posting a private e-mail to the public list, which I'm fairly  certain
was done without Julia's permission, is lousy netiquette.
On a couple of other lists I am a member of, doing that or its  converse
(forwarding an on-list message off-list) is grounds for immediate
dismissal, regardless of who does it or how long they have been  
there or
how well liked they are.

I had just discussed this kind of abuse in an off-list exchange with a
manager of a list that I am on, in which I echoed Ronn!'s experience:
there are plenty of lists on which the forwarding of off-list messages
without permission is grounds for banning, if not heavy moderation.
BUT: before we rush to judgment, I don't think we've heard from
either Julia or Erik as to whether she'd given him permission.  Also, the
list's Etiquette Guidelines http://www.mccmedia.com/brin-l/ 
etiquette.htm
do not specifically address this issue, and not everyone has had  Ronn!'s
experience with other lists that observe it. It may simply be a  
matter of
learning, like not top-posting.

Since it looks like the Julia's message was in her capacity as a list- 
admin that muddies the waters a bit more it seems to me. Especially  
since one of the people involved is Nick who is the list owner.

I agree with William.
IMO, until there is some policy that specifically says otherwise, 
anything sent off-list by an admin in an administrative capacity is fair 
game for the list as a whole.

I prefer to send such things off-list, as there is potential for public 
embarassment of the intended recipient if it's done publicly, but if the 
recipient wants to make it public, I personally don't have a problem 
with that.

Non-administrative private e-mails, however, are a different matter, and 
I'd take a dim view of, say, Ronn! posting to the list something Dan M. 
had sent him off-list without first getting Dan's permission.

Julia
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RE: On trolling

2003-11-18 Thread ChadCooper
 
 Now, if only I could find a Portland Timbers fan on Brin-L to 
 taunt.. ^_^

You Troll
Nerd From Hell

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RE: On trolling

2003-11-14 Thread Miller, Jeffrey


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
 Behalf Of Jon Gabriel
 Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 07:02 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: On trolling
 
 Good no one around here does that. Because none of us has a single 
 agenda
 or point of view which we consistently hold to no matter what the 
 circumstance
 
 Are you trying to insinuate that some of us are obsessed with 
 SPORTS???
 
 Perish the thought!
 
 :-)
 
 Jon
 Baseball.  Football.  Hockey.  Soccer.  Badminton.  Maru.

Damn, guilty as charged.

Now, if only I could find a Portland Timbers fan on Brin-L to taunt.. ^_^

-j-
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Re: On trolling

2003-11-14 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 11/14/2003 5:01:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
writes:

  Are you trying to insinuate that some of us are obsessed 
 with
  SPORTS???

I was thinking more about Sports Wear.
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Re: On trolling

2003-11-12 Thread Reggie Bautista
The Fool wrote:
Stale marshmallows are best.
I replied:
That depends on just how stale they are.  When we were cleaning out my
parents' house after the tornado, we found a bag of marshmallows with an
expiration date in the middle 1970's...
Reggie Bautista
Pretty Colors Maru
Ronn! responded:
Did they start out as different colors?
Sadly, no.

Reggie Bautista
Technicolor Terror Maru
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Re: On trolling

2003-11-12 Thread Deborah Harrell
 Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 The Fool wrote:

 Stale marshmallows are best.
 
 I replied:
 That depends on just how stale they are.  When we
 were cleaning out my
 parents' house after the tornado, we found a bag
 of marshmallows with an
 expiration date in the middle 1970's...
 
 Pretty Colors Maru
 
 Ronn! responded:
 Did they start out as different colors?
 
 Sadly, no.
 
 Reggie Bautista
 Technicolor Terror Maru

For those who wish to provide future
gleaners-of-tornado-ravaged-houses with multicolored
marshmallows, stock your home with Peeps For All
Seasons:
http://www.marshmallowpeeps.com/index.html

Did you know that Peeps have participated in
atmospheric research?  Here is the NASA site:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast01apr_1m.htm
...However, one fascinating and tragic aspect of the
story was not announced until now. The April 11 flight
included five brave passengers -- intrepid explorers
who never returned. Where they went, and how, remains
a mystery.

Stowed away on the weather balloon sent aloft in
April 1999 were five tiny Peeps. How they got there is
controversial. Most of his colleagues think they were
smuggled on board by Bryan Walls, an irreverent member
of the launch team. However it happened, one thing is
clear -- these Peeps were not purchased with tax
dollars and NASA does not endorse these brightly
colored sweet treats!...

Besides high-altitude testing, marshmallow bunnies
have been subjected to lasers, open flames, and
boiling water (be sure to check out the Wyle E. Coyote
test!):
http://www.keypad.org/bunnies/

Dissolving Into Silliness Maru  :)

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Re: On trolling

2003-11-11 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:02 PM 11/10/03 -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote:
The Fool wrote:
Stale marshmallows are best.
That depends on just how stale they are.  When we were cleaning out my
parents' house after the tornado, we found a bag of marshmallows with an
expiration date in the middle 1970's...
Reggie Bautista
Pretty Colors Maru


Did they start out as different colors?



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Re: On trolling

2003-11-11 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 11/10/2003 11:17:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
writes:

 I wonder if this person would consider trolling to include posting
 multiple articles every day, with insult-laden subject lines, propogate a
 single peculiar agenda?It seems to me that that 
 situation would
 consitute trolling while violating the first rule above.

Good no one around here does that. Because none of us has a single agenda or point of 
view which we consistently hold to no matter what the circumstance
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Re: On trolling

2003-11-11 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Killer Bs Discussion)
Subject: Re: On trolling
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:29:07 -0500
In a message dated 11/10/2003 11:17:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I wonder if this person would consider trolling to include posting
 multiple articles every day, with insult-laden subject lines, propogate 
a
 single peculiar agenda?It seems to me that that
 situation would
 consitute trolling while violating the first rule above.

Good no one around here does that. Because none of us has a single agenda 
or point of view which we consistently hold to no matter what the 
circumstance
Are you trying to insinuate that some of us are obsessed with SPORTS???

Perish the thought!

:-)

Jon
Baseball.  Football.  Hockey.  Soccer.  Badminton.  Maru.
Le Blog:  http://zarq.livejournal.com

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On trolling

2003-11-10 Thread Julia Thompson
On another list I'm on, where the perennial heated discussion is whether 
or not Dune is the most incredible pieces of literature on the face of the 
Earth or just a pile of pulp best suited for use as a doorstop, a thread 
came up in which various people claimed the title best troll.  And one 
of them posted these rules for trolling:

First rule of trolling: One Post.
Second rule: Never respond.

If you actively respond, then you are spamming.

Thought I'd share and see what anyone else had to say on the subject.

And, just for the record, I really do like marshmallows.  I just shouldn't
eat too many of them, you know?

Julia

functioning on 4 hours' sleep, isn't this fun?

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Re: On trolling

2003-11-10 Thread The Fool
 From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 
 And, just for the record, I really do like marshmallows.  I just
shouldn't
 eat too many of them, you know?

Stale marshmallows are best.
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Re: On trolling

2003-11-10 Thread Julia Thompson


On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, The Fool wrote:

  From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  
  
  And, just for the record, I really do like marshmallows.  I just
 shouldn't
  eat too many of them, you know?
 
 Stale marshmallows are best.

Slightly stale marshmallows are good.  I don't like them to get too far, 
though.

Maybe I ought to put marshmallows on the shopping list.

Julia

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Re: On trolling

2003-11-10 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 11/10/2003 8:33:07 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Maybe I ought to put marshmallows on the shopping list.
  
   Julia

Here, catch!

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Re: On trolling

2003-11-10 Thread Reggie Bautista
The Fool wrote:
Stale marshmallows are best.
That depends on just how stale they are.  When we were cleaning out my
parents' house after the tornado, we found a bag of marshmallows with an
expiration date in the middle 1970's...
Reggie Bautista
Pretty Colors Maru
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Re: On trolling

2003-11-10 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 06:41 PM 11/10/2003 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote:
On another list I'm on, where the perennial heated discussion is whether 
or not Dune is the most incredible pieces of literature on the face of the 
Earth or just a pile of pulp best suited for use as a doorstop, a thread 
came up in which various people claimed the title best troll.  And one 
of them posted these rules for trolling:

First rule of trolling: One Post.
Second rule: Never respond.

If you actively respond, then you are spamming.

I wonder if this person would consider trolling to include posting
multiple articles every day, with insult-laden subject lines, propogate a
single peculiar agenda?It seems to me that that situation would
consitute trolling while violating the first rule above.

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Re: On trolling

2003-11-10 Thread Dan Minette

- Original Message - 
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 6:41 PM
Subject: On trolling


 On another list I'm on, where the perennial heated discussion is whether
 or not Dune is the most incredible pieces of literature on the face of
the
 Earth or just a pile of pulp best suited for use as a doorstop,.

Why can't it be both?

Dan M.

You can count me out (in) Maru


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Re: On trolling

2003-11-10 Thread Russell Chapman
Julia Thompson wrote:

First rule of trolling: One Post.
   Second rule: Never respond.
   If you actively respond, then you are spamming.

Hell no. Some of the best trolling is *developing* a running battle 
between participants and this can be done best by steering the argument 
in certain directions rather than smashing it there in one hit.
Brevity and conciseness, yes - single strike, not necessarily.

(Erik strikes me as someone *capable* of doing this well (though not 
necessarily inclined to do so) by gradually winding up the tempo rather 
than a single stir...)

Cheers
Russell C.
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Trolling vs. healthy debates

2003-03-16 Thread Han Tacoma
How do we differentiate trolling from engaging in a
healthy debate about any given issue?

Sometimes I feel that the line separating these is
an extremely fine one and hard to find.

Any opinions out there?

Cheers!
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Re: Trolling vs. healthy debates

2003-03-16 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 07:49:02PM -0500, Han Tacoma wrote:

 How do we differentiate trolling from engaging in a healthy debate
 about any given issue?

 Sometimes I feel that the line separating these is an extremely fine
 one and hard to find.

Are you trolling again, Han? :-)


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Trolling vs. healthy debates

2003-03-16 Thread Han Tacoma
How do we differentiate trolling from engaging in a
healthy debate about any given issue?

Sometimes I feel that the line separating these is
an extremely fine one and hard to find.

Any opinions out there?

Cheers!
--
Han Tacoma

~ Artificial Intelligence is better than none! ~

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