On 28/08/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
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".
"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.
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'Troll' is just the beginning of the exceptions.
Wikipaedia and ED have too much in common. ;_;