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

[Matthew Brown]

On 8/1/07, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

If the word is being used in this way, it conveys less meaning.  The
problem is that 'troll' has become such a loaded word on Wikipedia
that it is now best avoided.

-Matt