From: Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com
On 6/15/05, JAY JG jayjg@hotmail.com wrote:
Perhaps we should alert Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International.
This sort of disrespectful language reflects poorly on the project.
No, hysterical rhetoric about pictures of turds generating huge numbers of unecessary e-mails to a list already inundated with these kinds of e-mails reflects poorly on the project, and that needs to stop.
It's not acceptable to bait people with such jabs just so you can yell 'look see' when the victim meets your incivility with more incivility.
That wasn't baiting, that was mocking; with any luck, it will stop futher impassioned e-mails repeating the same thing ad nauseam. If it doesn't work, I'll have to resort to mass deletion of unread e-mails, as I have had to do so many times in the past.
If you really think the user in question is a troll and therefor not deserving of a basic level of respect then you need to take the only action that has ever been effective in stopping trolls: Ignore them.
If I didn't think they were a complete troll I would indeed have ignored them. Instead I tried to bring them to their senses, and to spare the endless rounds of debate on a topic that's been thoroughly covered.
Jay.