On 27 Aug 2007 at 23:31:48 -0400, "Ron
Ritzman" <ritzman(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 8/27/07, Stephen Bain
<stephen.bain(a)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(a)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