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On 6/12/07, Alexander Gabert <pappy@g.o> wrote: |
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> There are others like him and there will be others after him. There |
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> were even people doing that before him. |
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As with trolls, theres more where they came for, but that doesn't make |
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gentoo-ML 'different' to as to how we slay a troll. |
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I agree with matthias. If somebody's a troll, then you ignore them, |
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you make no attempt to reply to their post, and thus escape a |
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massacre. Its just that some times people think that by _not_ replying |
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to a trollish argument, that somehow the troll 'wins' . I figure, that |
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this being a gentoo-dev room, most the people in here have their head |
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screwed on and can know what a troll looks like when they see one, and |
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act accordingly to the 'leave them alone and they'll go away' policy. |
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Otherwise all your reply does is _guarantee_ they've won, because |
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nothing you say or do about a troll, bar ignoring them, will make any |
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good come to pass. Then either the troll will go away, or stop |
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trolling. |
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There will be some still who engage the troll at their own game, but |
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that only means that person who competes with the troll only stands to |
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make himself look bad, and maybe you could quietly hint to them |
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somehow that 'this is a troll, this creates a flamewar, it'll all end |
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in tears, Im not going to comment, I suggest you do the same' |
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> Even this email is troll feeding because he will have witty conclusive |
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> dogmatism and ironic remarks he can spit back at me now. Feeding, |
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> feeding, feeding. |
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So really, you knowingly produced troll bait. This is what I'm saying |
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we need to stop doing. Read our messages through, and when we discover |
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'this looks like troll bait' I think it would be best to re-orient it |
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so its _not_ troll bait. |
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Kent |
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ruby -e '[1, 2, 4, 7, 0, 9, 5, 8, 3, 10, 11, 6, 12, 13].each{|x| |
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print "enNOSPicAMreil kdrtf@×××.com"[(2*x)..(2*x+1)]}' |
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