Yes, but it seems that the fun of having the word
'troll' in their username is the fuss it causes. If we
just didn't feed that behavior, it wouldn't be fun. I
may be wrong, but I think that the proliferation of
'troll' names is a response to people making a fuss
about it. Without anyone to feed them, trolls will
look elsewhere.
Mark
--- Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)ctelco.net> wrote:
My feeling is that they would not at all enjoy
Wikipedia if they did not
have "troll" in their user name. A sharp stick in
the eye is what they are
all about.
Killjoy Fred
From: Mark Richards
<marich712000(a)yahoo.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia
<wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 17:06:56 -0700 (PDT)
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Trolls - A novel approach -
don't feed them
Folks,
This is my first post here, so I'm sorry that it
is on
such an unfortunate topic, but I wanted to
suggest
an
alternative approach to the users who have been
involved with J.R.R. Trollkien and other users
with
'troll' in the name.
It seems to me that by continuing to ban, block,
hold
hearings about etc, that we are feeding trollish
behavior. The recent banning of one user for
'disruptive edits' or something like that in
particular, while I can understand the sentiment,
leaves us open to a double standard - I have seen
many
other users exhibit much more disruptive edits.
I would suggest that we stop creating a lot of
light
and noise about this, and deal with behavior when
/ if
it becomes a problem. Above all, don't
needlessly
feed
the trolls - creating rules like 'no
usernames
with
the word troll in them' seems gaurunteed to
spur
trolls to find the limit of this eg anagrams,
words
containing 'troll', synonyms etc -
I'm pretty sure
the
novelty of it would wear off if people ignored
them.
My two cents.
Mark
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