[WikiEN-l] Please stop this Re: The Second Rape: Victim-Blaming (was Re: Self-sensorship, how far should it go?)

[Oskar Sigvardsson]

On 8/2/07, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Trolling" is thrown around way too much on this list and on
> Wikipedia.  Do you really think that ArmedBlowfish does not mean
> his/her comments in good faith and is only saying these things to
> cause an argument?  Because that's what trolling is.  It's not simply
> saying argumentative things; it's doing so deliberately to cause an
> argument for your own amusement.

That's what trolling originally meant, but as words tend to do, its
meaning has changed. It is perfectly acceptable to use "trolling" as
"needlessly inflammatory". I agree completely with Stephen, it is
incredibly insensitive to compare this to rape. The rhetoric needs to
be dialed down.

--Oskar