On 8/28/07, charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews(a)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.
It seems to me that a useful way to not feed the trolls is to not call
them trolls.
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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain(a)gmail.com