[WikiEN-l] Jayjg is not AWOL

[Adrian]

Stephen Bain schrieb:
> On 8/28/07, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
> <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
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>> Marc Riddell wrote
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>>> The word "trolling", the phrase "to troll", and what
>>> defines "a troll" all seem to have different meanings to different people in
>>> the Community. One person, writing in this thread, defined it as "stirring
>>> shit up".
>>>       
>> A troll, to translate, is a provocateur. There are numerous ways of doing the provocation. I suppose the classification is roughly into those who value the attention, and those who value the mischief. Either way, the non-feeding advice is always the soundest. I'm afraid meditations on essentialism for trollness, tenable or not, fail that test.
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> It seems to me that a useful way to not feed the trolls is to not call
> them trolls.
>   
Only a troll would say such a thing.