[WikiEN-l] Jayjg is not AWOL

[Marc Riddell]

> On 8/28/07, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
> <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> Marc Riddell wrote
>> 
>>> The word "trolling", the phrase "to troll", and what
>>> defines "a troll" all seem to have different meanings to different people in
>>> the Community. One person, writing in this thread, defined it as "stirring
>>> shit up".
>> 
>> A troll, to translate, is a provocateur. There are numerous ways of doing the
>> provocation. I suppose the classification is roughly into those who value the
>> attention, and those who value the mischief. Either way, the non-feeding
>> advice is always the soundest. I'm afraid meditations on essentialism for
>> trollness, tenable or not, fail that test.

on 8/27/07 7:11 PM, Stephen Bain at stephen.bain at gmail.com wrote:

> It seems to me that a useful way to not feed the trolls is to not call
> them trolls.

Stephen,

Yes. Present to what the person is saying; and not speculate on why they are
saying it.

Marc