Some follow up is found here:
http://themedium.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/guest-post-mattathias-schwart…
The article also mentions someone giving the ED founder the serious troll
treatment - and that he called another troll, featured in the article, for
help. Its an interesting pathology that makes these people do what they do,
and intriguing to see how they rationalize it to themselves. Another
individual featured in the article supposedly posted a long comment to the
first blog post by Heffernan - but it'd be ironic if it wasn't actually him.
Nathan
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Steve Summit <scs(a)eskimo.com> wrote:
The New York Times Magazine has an article on, of all
things,
trolls. Long, but worth reading for those who are interested
in the phenomenon. (Encyclopedia Dramatica is mentioned.)
"The Trolls Among Us", by Mattathias Schwartz, published August 3.
Here's a direct link, though I'm not sure it'll work for everyone:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html>.
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