Those two rules are on a very good way, yet I propose slight deviation, in
the same spirit.
About Feeding a troll, or as said here someone sincere (jojo, MY, or me
sometime, or people whom I respect too much to name because I appreciate
their contribution - even if MY sometime was interesting) that does not
want to concede a point :
I have a personal policy, to give data, propose reasoning, not for the
"troll"/"stone head"/"convinced man" but for the "lurkers" and "the
archive" ... some fact checking, proposing a position, reminding
controversy... it feed the troll and the question is when to stop
feeding... maybe when you have to repeat, but good troll don't get caught
in a cycle, but move the target in new place... "don't feed the troll" is a
precaution principle, maybe too precautionous... anyway have to stop. there
must be a "timeout".
About anonymity, I agree partially, yet I prefer checked pseudonymity.
In my case, I imagine that most people know my other LENR pseudonym in the
community, and some know my name, that sadly you can get in 5 second
because of... ...pfff...
I just don't want to have my boss google me talking of non-consensual
industry, incompatible with the company image and strategy. My professional
ethic ask me to protect my company from my private position.
If people here, who agree not to spread (more than already done) my ID,
want to see my name and CV, I will give link... anyway with 5 minute of
search you can identify me... I just wan't to be protected from quick
google.
but I understand that some higher executive, might prefer to be
pseudonymized, yet checked by "trusted authorities" here.
another policy I've heard about defining what is an abuse (from women
organization) is that sometime it is hard to define what is
"non-consensual", but when the other party ("trusted authorities" here)
says that if have to stop, continuing is abuse.
Same for something repeated too often...
The result is not very formal, but it works in real life...
2013/1/9 Vorl Bek <[email protected]>
> >
> > Below are two long-standing but unwritten rules of vortex-L:
> >
> > 1. DO NOT FEED A TROLL. If someone is insulting, then you are
> required
> > to put their address in local killfile. If you don't know what
> trolls
> > are, and aren't familiar with this issue, do not subscribe to vortex-L
>
> Good rule. But to be clear, I don't think the insulters are
> necessarily trolls, which are defined, as I understand it, as
> people who are insincere and post to get a rise out of others.
>
> The people who took part in the recent rubbish-fest were all
> sincere as far as I could tell, and I think they recognized that
> the insults directed at them were sincerely meant.
>
> That would make it difficult to put the insulter in a killfile,
> but I agree that is what needs to be done - unless you want to
> give them the option of keeping the rubbish in vortexb.
>
>
> >
> > 2. REAL IDENTITIES ONLY. This is a semi-pro forum, and we all use
> > our real names here. Users will provide linking info in their posted
> > messages, such as a "sig" with personal website, Facebook page,
> > mailing addr, etc. Just make sure anyone can verify your real-world
> > identity.
> >
> > I won't be enforcing the second one until I set up an archive system
> which
> > is private, members-only. I'm looking at groupware services which
> > duplicate the "groups" function at yahoo and google (both of which have
> > major issues which we've discussed, and I've very intentionally avoided
> > migrating to either one.) But today there are at least three other
> > options.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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