"Stephen Bain" wrote
It seems to me that a useful way to not feed the
trolls is to not call
them trolls.
De jure, cslling someone a troll is a personal attack (an ad hominem argument for paying
them no attention). De facto, it is a message to the rest of the list: any successful
troll can get half the posts saying "no, go on, this is interesting" in a
situation where there is smoke without fire and no smoke. "Do not feed the
trolls" means that logic alone cannot kill such a thread.
Charles
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