Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Troll study

2014-02-15 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 2/15/2014 1:10 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: > fits your own definition of trolling, he himself describes it as an > attempt to elicit angry responses. > Please cite any post where I have trolled this forum. Thank you. If not, maybe you should just keep your pie hole shut about the trolling

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Troll study

2014-02-15 Thread authfriend
What Barry does and calls "pushing buttons" not only fits your own definition of trolling, he himself describes it as an attempt to elicit angry responses. And it's been very well documented that the posts are "duplicitous." Nor, of course, is hhe Slate report "duplicitous" in any sense. >

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Troll study

2014-02-15 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 2/15/2014 8:38 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: > Again, dingbat, "pushing buttons" is the term Barry uses to > characterize what he does. Is he slandering himself, do you think? > Barry never equated someone being a "troll" with someone posting a message and "pushing someone's buttons"- that'

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Troll study

2014-02-15 Thread authfriend
Again, dingbat, "pushing buttons" is the term Barry uses to characterize what he does. Is he slandering himself, do you think? << This places button pushers in the strictly manipulative, deceitful, egotistical, self-obsessive remorseless unempathetic category. The term 'button pusher' is f

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Troll study

2014-02-15 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 2/14/2014 8:48 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: This places button pushers in the strictly manipulative, deceitful, egotistical, self-obsessive remorseless unempathetic category. > The term 'button pusher' is frequently abused to slander opponents in heated debates and is frequently misapp

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Troll study

2014-02-15 Thread Share Long
Xeno, nice to know that even sociopaths have valentines. BTW, I had spanakopita for dinner last night at Dome Market! Go figure! On Friday, February 14, 2014 4:59 PM, "anartax...@yahoo.com" wrote:   According to the departed Ravi, I am a sociopath, and therefore could have no empathy wha

[FairfieldLife] RE: Troll study

2014-02-14 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: A new psychology paper http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886914000324 studied the personalities of those who engage in trolling (known in some quarters as "pushing buttons") on the Internet: "The research, conducted by Eri

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Troll study

2014-02-14 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 2/14/2014 3:21 PM, anartax...@yahoo.com wrote: > Now, how many on this forum got their buttons pushed by my previous post? > The term "button-pusher" is frequently used to discredit an opposing position in an argument. This can amount to an ad hominem argument; a purported troll of this natur

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Troll study

2014-02-14 Thread anartaxius
According to the departed Ravi, I am a sociopath, and therefore could have no empathy whatever for your hurt feelings. |:-< I do have a Valentine this day, in the common sense (female), but it's not on FFL. She just started her program, but I must fix dinner, so I have to meditate later. --

[FairfieldLife] RE: Troll study

2014-02-14 Thread authfriend
Xeno would do a lot better to examine his own buttons. No. Barry and I have no private conversations. I have no knowledge of his private e-mail address or addresses, or of his current residence, though I have seen a depiction the general area he lives in, in the Netherlands, on a map and on G

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Troll study

2014-02-14 Thread Share Long
Xeno, my feelings are hurt that you think turq has a better sense of smell than I do. Happy Valentine's Day (-: On Friday, February 14, 2014 3:21 PM, "anartax...@yahoo.com" wrote:   No. Barry and I have no private conversations. I have no knowledge of his private e-mail address or addre

[FairfieldLife] RE: Troll study

2014-02-14 Thread anartaxius
No. Barry and I have no private conversations. I have no knowledge of his private e-mail address or addresses, or of his current residence, though I have seen a depiction the general area he lives in, in the Netherlands, on a map and on Google Earth, since he described it in a post some time ago

[FairfieldLife] RE: Troll study

2014-02-14 Thread authfriend
Hmm, Xeno seems to be studying to become a troll/button-pusher. Barry must be tutoring him behind the scenes. Thank you for this autobiographical post: A new psychology paper http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886914000324 studied the personalities of those who engage in tr

[FairfieldLife] RE: Troll study

2014-02-14 Thread anartaxius
Thank you for this autobiographical post: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: A new psychology paper http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886914000324 studied the personalities of those who engage in trolling (known in some quarters as "pushing buttons") on the Inter

[FairfieldLife] RE: Troll study

2014-02-14 Thread anartaxius
Thank you for this autobiographical post!