[WikiEN-l] On trolls, usenet and Wikipedia

[Ray Saintonge]

Mark Richards wrote:

>Well, I don't know, I havn't been following the
>details, my frustration is just over the level of time
>and energy that is put into this.
>I thought that there were moves afoot to ban people
>simply for having 'troll' in their username, but
>honestly couldn't care less one way or another, the
>whole discussion (on the talk etc pages) just seems to
>me to be troll food.
>Sorry to go on about this, I'm just kind of fed up of
>the whole thing, but then, I guess we all are.
>Mark
>
There's no need to apologize.  I find the perpetual whining about trolls 
and their ilk far more irritating that what the "trolls" do.  It often 
seems that in their zeal to solve a problem the anti-troll lobby creates 
bigger ones.  

Ec