Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>> ____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Tuesday 05 August 2008 02:41 : \____
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>>>> On Aug 4, 4:34 pm, Linonut <lino...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Brogan's Constant:
>>>>> People tend to congregate in the back of the church and the
>>>>> front of the bus.
>>>>
>>>> Well this one would be much poorer without you, but I wouldn't blame
>>>> you if you left. Now Moshe=flatfish is impersonating you, too.
>>>
>>> The more aggressive the get, the more desperate they are.
>>>
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>> Personally, I recommend the use of a good, solid killfile... that way,
>> although the trolls attempt to pullute the group, one doesn't see their
>> pollution, so their trawling is ineffective.
>>
>> The other alternative is to find another discussion location, but as
>> they'll merely move their anyway, it's not a sustainable solution,
>> whereas a killfile is.
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> They already pollute Digg and Slashdot (I suspect they have done it in Slashdot
> for much longer, though).
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I recall at least one character starting in cola before migrating onto
slashdot. At first he was highly aggressive and very overt, but after
some time in cola, he became far more subtle with his approach, although
his agenda changed not one jot. The bizzarest thing is that several
pro-charter cola denizens actually congratulated him on how good his
posts were. Naive, thought I.
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