On 27 Aug 2007 at 23:31:48 -0400, "Ron Ritzman" ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/27/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
It seems to me that a useful way to not feed the trolls is to not call them trolls.
You're right, a better term for this is "drama whore".
on 8/28/07 8:49 AM, Daniel R. Tobias at dan@tobias.name wrote:
"Troll" (and its sometimes-creative synonyms and variants) seems to be a special exception to the "No Personal Attacks" policy, as people have no restraint from using it freely against anybody who has something to say that they'd rather not hear.
Exactly! That does seem to happen a lot here. It's like George Bush calling anyone who speaks against the slaughter (excuse me, war) in Irag 'unpatriotic'. But this works only if the rest of us buy into the bullshit.
Marc