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____/ Hardon on Saturday 09 Jul 2011 08:09 : \____
> On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 07:05:45 +0000, Hardon wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 07:46:02 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> 1. Insinuate that Linux advocacy implies pathological issues.
>>
>> Totally ineffectual
>>
>>> 2. Bully Linux proponents.
>>
>> Never noticed this.
>>
>>> 3. Cause infighting (or imply homosexuality to distance fellow
>>> advocates from one another).
>>
>> Never noticed this. The contrary is true IMHO.
>>
>>> 4. Drown out Linux forums with vile content the members wish to be
>>> dissociated from.
>>
>> Totally ineffectual
>>
>>> Any more?
>>
>> Who cares? The solution to the trolls is to kill file them. Most
>> trolls just give up. This has been known for years. For the likes of
>> flatfish, it is so desperate it will go into a nym shifting frenzy.
>> Normally it is detected within a post or two.
>>
>> Feeding the trolls is utterly pointless. They thrive on being replied
>> to regardless of the content of the replies. If one feels they must
>> reply to a troll then change the subject to reflect the trolls lies.
>>
>> Goblin is COLA's number one troll feeder at this time and I've binned
>> him because of it. My choice but with a decent kill file the S/N of
>> this group very high.
>
> Excuse my followup to my own post but there used to be troll stats
> posted on this newsgroup by Terry Porter I think. That was a useful
> post for informing any lurkers as to the slime that post to troll
> COLA.
*LOL*. "<hardon.quirk@xxxxxxxxx>". "Hardon's quirky" is how I put it some years ago.
It's a good thing many filters work on E-mail addresses and not display names,
but why use the handle of a known troll?
About Goblin, I've told him feeding the trolls is not the right thing to do, IMHO.
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