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Trolls, or trolling behaviour ...how do we deal with these isues as an online community?

 
 
JPB
 
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Reply Wed 24 Mar, 2010 07:44 am
@msolga,
I didn't say he didn't derail threads, msolga. I said we was involved in a number of threads that stayed on topic. I know that thread was important and meaningful to you and that he ruined that for you. You'd now have the option of collapsing those posts and not having to look at them. You'd also have the option of making a public request on the thread to folks to ignore him and his posts on that thread because they were so disturbing to you - especially if you were the thread initiator. Folks who ignored your request (assuming you made one) are, to me, a bigger problem than the troll.
JPB
 
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Reply Wed 24 Mar, 2010 07:44 am
@Setanta,
agreed
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Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 24 Mar, 2010 07:46 am
@OmSigDAVID,
Unsubstantiated derivations for bigot do not change the fact that your comment displays your partisan motivated bigotry.

I suggest that you research the derivation of bigot, because the story you're telling is not universally accepted, and is not supported by any evidence other that inference. The derivation from a French name for people from the south of France is supported by 12th century documents.
msolga
 
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Reply Wed 24 Mar, 2010 07:49 am
@JPB,
Quote:
I didn't say he didn't derail threads, msolga.


Oh I thought that's what you meant, JPB.

Sorry, I misunderstood you.

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djjd62
 
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Reply Wed 24 Mar, 2010 07:49 am
@Setanta,
i don't get bigotry

why anyone would want one spouse, let alone two, is beyond me
Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 24 Mar, 2010 08:05 am
@djjd62,
I know what you mean . . . i've always been in favor of adultery, but infantry--that's just sick.
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Wed 24 Mar, 2010 08:27 am
@ehBeth,
OmSigDAVID wrote:
Hawkeye has admitted to being a socialist.
That is very inconsistent with being enthusiastic about personal freedom,
which is the province of libertarians ( like ME ).

ehBeth wrote:
there are libertarians found throughout the political spectrum.
You simply represent one point on that spectrum.
Maybe; depending on WHAT those alleged libertarians think there shoud be liberty to DO.

I sought to bring out the fact that it is the essence of socialist theory
that the freedom of the individual shoud be sacrificed n subordinated to the "general well-being" of the collective.
Hence, thay choose to reject laissez faire free enterprize in favor of collectivism.

In that spirit, thay champion the power of AUTHORITY to arrest the freedom of the individual citizen.





David
spendius
 
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Reply Wed 24 Mar, 2010 08:41 am
Could trolling be said to include trying to put the Japanese, Norweigian and Icelandic whale fishing industry out of business using misinformation, ignorance, sentimental pleasantries and ignoring any defence of them?

What's the opposite of a troll? Is accusing somebody of being a troll a sinister trick whereby the accuser gets to cast a golden glow upon themselves and without bothering to offer any further evidence.

It is known as the RIC on one or two threads. (The reverse invidious comparison.)

What a crap thread this is!! It means nothing. It's the complacent basking in the simple use of insults. Pure shite.
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Wed 24 Mar, 2010 08:44 am
@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
Unsubstantiated derivations for bigot do not change the fact
that your comment displays your partisan motivated bigotry.
Thay do not; it surprizes me that we agree on so much.
I am, and have been, obsessively motivated by individual freedom.
Therein lies my partisan loyalty.



Setanta wrote:
I suggest that you research the derivation of bigot,
because the story you're telling is not universally accepted,
I have already conceded that some folks deem it apocryphal.




Setanta wrote:
and is not supported by any evidence other that inference.
The derivation from a French name for people from the south of France is supported by 12th century documents.
People from the south of France were bigots ?





David
Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 24 Mar, 2010 08:45 am
@OmSigDAVID,
No, the Franks simply had a low opinion of the Occitan.
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Ticomaya
 
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Reply Wed 24 Mar, 2010 09:08 am
@JPB,
JPB wrote:
I can't think of anyone here who is "just" a troll.

Have you not met JTT?
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Wed 24 Mar, 2010 09:11 am
@Ticomaya,
Ticomaya wrote:
JPB wrote:
I can't think of anyone here who is "just" a troll.

Have you not met JTT?
Good point
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JPB
 
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Reply Wed 24 Mar, 2010 09:13 am
@Ticomaya,
Not outside of this thread. I agree with some of his comments here.
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Wed 24 Mar, 2010 09:17 am
@JPB,
JPB wrote:
Not outside of this thread. I agree with some of his comments here.
He more PROUDLY repudiates logic than anyone I 've ever known or heard of.
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Ticomaya
 
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Reply Wed 24 Mar, 2010 09:17 am
@JPB,
Well, I haven't seen his comments here. His comments don't show up in my browser.
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Wed 24 Mar, 2010 09:18 am
@Ticomaya,
Ticomaya wrote:
Well, I haven't seen his comments here. His comments don't show up in my browser.
I have him on Ignore.
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Rockhead
 
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Reply Wed 24 Mar, 2010 09:20 am
irony break.

anyone else chuckling that two lawyers have an individual on ignore, but feel competent to comment on said individuals value as a poster?

ok, back to the action...
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Wed 24 Mar, 2010 09:28 am
@Rockhead,
Rockhead wrote:
irony break.

anyone else chuckling that two lawyers have an individual on ignore,
but feel competent to comment on said individuals value as a poster?

ok, back to the action...
I was slow to put him on Ignore.
I gave him plenty of chance to explain n justify his position.
Eventually, I decided that enuf drivel is too much nonsense.
I decided not to take it any more.





David
spendius
 
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Reply Wed 24 Mar, 2010 09:31 am
@Rockhead,
Anybody who can't take JTT has his or her head in a bucket.

JTT is a pussy besides some of the people I know.
Joe Nation
 
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Reply Wed 24 Mar, 2010 09:33 am
@JPB,
Quote:
They were probably the class clowns and the playground bullies.
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Oh my gosh, have I gotten so old that I forgotten such people existed? The class clowns, at least the funny ones, seemed to gather some friends, the meaner style of clown was just the less physically violent bully. The bullies were surrounded by other bullies or their toads. Some of them were hoods. Heh.

~~
They still sit together at class reunions. The hoods do.
Not the class clowns.
They became Insurance Salesmen, nearly dying of boredom.

Joe(they still brighten up a room)Nation



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