I think I've seen a couple of the times this has happened. It appears to me that it might be in reaction to a perceived misunderstanding of the topic on either party. If we assume good faith on both sides; then I think it's reasonable for the perceived 'trolling' party to gently restate their position.
Ordinarily I would hold that we should simply be silent when we think we're being trolled -- but over a mailing list that can be perceived as if we're ignoring things. As we sometimes do in fact do this on purpose; I appreciate the feedback loop when a party perceives it so that we can correct and move on so that no one gets ignored unless we really do mean to ignore them.
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On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroendedauw@gmail.comwrote:
Hey,
In recent months I've come across a few mails on this list that only contained accusations of trolling. Those are very much not constructive and only serve to antagonize. I know some forums that have an explicit rule against this, which results in a ban on second violation. If there is a definition of the etiquette for this list somewhere, I suggest having a similar rule be added there. Thoughts?
(I'm now half expecting someone to claim this mail is a troll. Perhaps we ought to make a contest out of making the accusation first, at least then it will have general amusement value :D)
Cheers
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