Please don't feed the trolls

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

Trolls are socially inept children seeking attention in the only way
their limited maturity allows, by throwing a tantrum. Anytime you
respond to a troll, he wins. That is why I am commenting in an original
post instead of cluttering up a troll riddled thread responding to a
particular nuisance. The only way to deal with trolls is to not deal
with them at all. Ignore them or add the really persistent ones to your
kill file. Any response, negative or otherwise, just compounds the problem.

 

[Ed Cryer]

Trolls are socially inept children seeking attention in the only way
their limited maturity allows, by throwing a tantrum. Anytime you
respond to a troll, he wins. That is why I am commenting in an original
post instead of cluttering up a troll riddled thread responding to a
particular nuisance. The only way to deal with trolls is to not deal
with them at all. Ignore them or add the really persistent ones to your
kill file. Any response, negative or otherwise, just compounds the problem.

Yes, we have trolls. I always feel the same as you about their
personality deficiencies and motivation.
I'll just add one point about their attention-seeking. They can also get
it by winding up their betters. In fact that's probably the best tactic
they have; a bit like pester-power with kids.
You can have great power and control over someone if you can get under
his skin; and then keep on and on until he cracks.

I try to follow your advice about dealing with them. It's the only one I
know too.

Ed

 

[XS11E]

The only way to deal with trolls is to not deal with them at all.
Ignore them or add the really persistent ones to your kill file.
Any response, negative or otherwise, just compounds the problem.

That's why I always recommend people use a newsreader with scoring
capabilities. It allows you to score the trolls w/o allowing one to
"poison" a thread.

 

[Peter Jason]

Trolls are socially inept children seeking attention in the only way
their limited maturity allows, by throwing a tantrum. Anytime you
respond to a troll, he wins. That is why I am commenting in an original
post instead of cluttering up a troll riddled thread responding to a
particular nuisance. The only way to deal with trolls is to not deal
with them at all. Ignore them or add the really persistent ones to your
kill file. Any response, negative or otherwise, just compounds the problem.

Clearly you are an anal-retentive control freak. We trolls have
feelings too.

 

[Ed Cryer]

Clearly you are an anal-retentive control freak. We trolls have
feelings too.

Well, I guess hedgehogs have feelings too. But I don't discuss classical
Latin poetry with them.

Ed

 

[RustY ©]

Well, I guess hedgehogs have feelings too. But I don't discuss classical
Latin poetry with them.

Ed

Well, this is turning into a great troll-fest in its own right. Which
idiot started this ? [and why am I replying to it ?]

 

[Drew]

Trolls are socially inept children seeking attention in the only way
their limited maturity allows, by throwing a tantrum. Anytime you
respond to a troll, he wins. That is why I am commenting in an original
post instead of cluttering up a troll riddled thread responding to a
particular nuisance. The only way to deal with trolls is to not deal
with them at all. Ignore them or add the really persistent ones to your
kill file. Any response, negative or otherwise, just compounds the problem.

Amen Brother!!

 

[Tester]

Clearly you are an anal-retentive control freak. We trolls have
feelings too.

That is why he calls himself a dummy. Few years ago he tried this trick
in his local pub and he got what he deserved; A good beating to give
him a brain damage. He says it was due to a terrible accident in his
bicycle but we know he got a good beating! He is now called David Crash
Dummy. Remember the name!

 

[Tester]

Well, I guess hedgehogs have feelings too. But I don't discuss classical
Latin poetry with them.

Well then don't do it. Is it so difficult to resist the temptation?
Don't cry; We trolls don't kill nutters like you because you guys are
no harm to us! You guys are impotent with very small penises.

 

[Tester]

Well, this is turning into a great troll-fest in its own right. Which
idiot started this ? [and why am I replying to it ?]

A guy called Dummy! Are you surprised?

 

[Tester]

Amen Brother!!

So you are that fundamentalist people are talking about? You are a
friend of Dummy, right?

 

[XS11E]

Well, I guess hedgehogs have feelings too. But I don't discuss
classical Latin poetry with them.

Been embarrassed too many times by hedgehogs that know more about
classical Latin poetry than you? <G>

 

[Peter Jason]

Well, I guess hedgehogs have feelings too. But I don't discuss classical
Latin poetry with them.

Well, the modern person has his lilting Latin prose translated by
Google. No academics required.

 

[Peter Jason]

Well, the modern person has his lilting Latin prose translated by
Google. No academics required.

PostScript:

Vivamus et novos transiluisse Canis ignavus.

Translate THAT!

 

[Ed Cryer]

PostScript:

Vivamus et novos transiluisse Canis ignavus.

Translate THAT!

Did you get that through an online translator? It's rubbish!.

Ed

 

[Ed Cryer]

So you are that fundamentalist people are talking about? You are a
friend of Dummy, right?

No; he probably just has an IQ in the human scale rather than the animal
one.

Ed

 

[David Arnstein]

I suggest that you simply filter the trolls. If you use a decent
newsreader, it will have a mechanism for this. Here is my killfile for
this ng. A killfile is a filter for old-style newsreaders.

If you see a name here that isn't really a troll, please post.
Mistakes happen.

/"One Shot - One Kill"/f:j
/Alias/f:j
/Bill Yanaire/f:j
/boleyn7/f:j
/Boscoe/f:j
/chrisv/f:j
/Clogwog/f:j
/Colon Oscopy/f:j
/Daft Fred/f:j
/DanS/f:j
/Death/f:j
/Dweezel AnalRetentive/f:j
/Etienne Reynard/f:j
/[email protected]/f:j
/[email protected]/f:j
/Frank/f:j
/Fred Manitoba/f:j
/Heywood Jablowme/f:j
/i76GLappie/f:j
/Ibrahim Al-Qassam/f:j
/J. D. Slocomb/f:j
/John Panzke/f:j
/Kevin David Mitnick/f:j
/kevpan815/f:j
/kevvpan815/f:j
/Lee Waun/f:j
/Martin L/f:j
/Moshe Goldfarb/f:j
/Mr Baracuda/f:j
/One Shot, One Kill/f:j
/PA Bear/f:j
/Parko/f:j
/Peter Foldes/f:j
/Philo T. Farnsworth/f:j
/philo/f:j
/Prodigy/f:j
/Pulled Pork/f:j
/ray/f:j
/RonB/f:j
/Shagnasty/f:j
/spanky/f:j
/Stan Starinski/f:j
/Steel/f:j
/Tattoo Vampire/f:j
/Tony/f:j
/VanguardLH/f:J
/Vlad-the-Impaler/f:j
/waterboy/f:j
/wonderwhy/f:j

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

You missed one more name:

(e-mail address removed) (David Arnstein)
(e-mail address removed)

hth



David Arnstein wrote:

<crap deleted>

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

I suggest that you simply filter the trolls. If you use a decent
newsreader, it will have a mechanism for this. Here is my killfile
for this ng. A killfile is a filter for old-style newsreaders.

I have found that filters are pretty useless because somebody always
feels obliged to respond to the troll, resulting in a bunch of orphaned
"re:'s" that just confuse things and contain a quote of the original
trollegram, anyway. Some news clients may have filtering capabilities
that allow discarding everything subsequent to the filtered troll, but
mine doesn't, and I think that is overkill, anyway. I just rely on my
eyeballs to spot the known jerks and ignore them, hoping others will, too.
"Please don't feed the trolls" is really the only defense/cure.

 

[XS11E]

I have found that filters are pretty useless because somebody
always feels obliged to respond to the troll,

And that's why a newsreader that supports scoring is the only one that
I'll use.