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____/ Linonut on Monday 04 August 2008 23:34 : \____
> http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html
>
> There's a sort of Gresham's Law of trolls: trolls are willing to use
> a forum with a lot of thoughtful people in it, but thoughtful people
> aren't willing to use a forum with a lot of trolls in it. Which means
> that once trolling takes hold, it tends to become the dominant
> culture. That had already happened to Slashdot and Digg by the time I
> paid attention to comment threads there, but I watched it happen to
> Reddit.
>
> http://www.urban75.com/Mag/troll.html
>
> There are three reasons why people troll newsgroups:
>
> People post such messages to get attention, to disrupt newsgroups,
> and simply to make trouble.
They are losing at the end. Since they only can offer Big Lies and personal
abuse (libel of course), it means that they have run of substantiated material
against Linux and FOSS. What else? Advocating Vista and Zune?
First they ignore you
Then they laugh at you
Then, they fight. That's what they do now. They attack advocates.
History taught the world that Microsoft will inevitably reach phase 3 and lose.
It failed at phase 1 and 2. Next phase is already in progress:
"Microsoft loses 90 Billion Dollars"
http://slated.org/microsoft_loses_90_billion_dollars
"Don't worry, be happy (and patient)"
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