On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Jeffrey Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well. > Kathy Sierra's stalkertrolls called it "art". > That is all.
Really good article on Trolls in the NYTimes magazine last week: http://bit.ly/2r7sUf Really good read. I know I've allowed trolls to painfully get to me before. Interesting how this one guy explains where he gets his power: Fortuny proceeded to demonstrate his personal cure for trolling, the Theory of the Green Hair. "You have green hair," he told me. "Did you know that?" "No," I said. "Why not?" "I look in the mirror. I see my hair is black." "That's uh, interesting. I guess you understand that you have green hair about as well as you understand that you're a terrible reporter." "What do you mean? What did I do?" "That's a very interesting reaction," Fortuny said. "Why didn't you get so defensive when I said you had green hair?" If I were certain that I wasn't a terrible reporter, he explained, I would have laughed the suggestion off just as easily. The willingness of trolling "victims" to be hurt by words, he argued, makes them complicit, and trolling will end as soon as we all get over it. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
