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Re: [News] [Rival] MSBBC Busted by Parliament for the MS iPlayer Scam

Kier <vallon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:32:05 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> 
>>> Whether you should bury the hatchet (kf) or not is up to you. If you
>>> don't

Burying the hatchet would be shaking hands and trolling together in harmony

>>> like troll-feeding, then you can set the kf to suit your reading preferences,
>>> but what doesn't suit your scope doesn't make the divide between "troll"
>>> and "not troll" for everyone else. 
>> 
>> The term Troll has a very specific definition - essentially, it means
>> someone who works to cause responses from others, mainly by writing
>> or claiming unlikely or unbelievable things repeatedly, over and over,
>> for the simple purpose of getting responses and keeping threads going.
>> Trolling can range from merely responding with abuse (as he does above)
>> to making silly claims (like "you *have* to have evidence" whilst ignoring
>> the presented evidence).
>> 
>>> The word troll is very offensive because
>>> it's usually ascribed to the Earth's scum (people like Gary Stewart, Scott
>>> Douglas, Ray Lopez, Bill Weisgerber and others).

LOL


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