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Re: An easy-to-use / install distro?

  • Subject: Re: An easy-to-use / install distro?
  • From: Hadron Quark <qadronhuark@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:07:34 +0200
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JPB <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> mwatters_newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> 
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> __/ [ 486box ] on Monday 25 September 2006 23:32 \__
>>>
>>> About the articles: the news used to be a troll magnet that encourages
>>> anti-Linux prapaganda shills to spoil the conversation. If you doubt it,
>>> plunge into the archives. The news posts demoralise them and drive them
>>> away.
>> 
>> You say it /used/ to be a troll magnet.  Does that mean it's not a
>> troll magnet anymore?  Or maybe they're on to your tactic (for various
>> reasons including your announcing the intention) and now it doesn't
>> serve it's purpose?  So now (maybe) the trolls are ruining the news
>> threads but also all the real threads?  Doesn't that make your news
>> threads part of the problem cluttering up the group with discussion
>> that floods out what we ought to be talking about here? (no disrespect
>> intended)
>> 
>> It just seems to me that the people wanting to disrupt discussion here
>> would disrupt everything anyway. (stuff labled news or not)  So adding
>> more for them to disrupt (posting numorous news stories) just makes the
>> group have a lot more noise than actual discussion.
>
> Labelling it [News} is so that *you* can filter it if you want to reduce
> the "clutter" from it.
>
> As for the trolls; the [News] is good for Linux advocates, it's like that
> when the tide is coming in. That puts the trolls on a back foot, they've
> either got to keep finding some way to spin these great stories
> against us,

But they dont because they filter them you fool. The only people seeing
them are the nuts and newcomers who get frightened and leave.

> and keep with the rate of posting, while all the time the ammunition is
> generally there in the fine articles for us to shoot them down at our
> leisure.

Post a bloody digest : you get your "good news" and your downright lies
(Did you know Roy routinely lies?) and everyone is happy.

>
> Keep up the good work, Roy!

Mark Kent? Is that you?

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