[WikiEN-l] Jayjg is not AWOL

[Marc Riddell]

> On 27 Aug 2007 at 23:31:48 -0400, "Ron Ritzman" <ritzman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/27/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> It seems to me that a useful way to not feed the trolls is to not call
>>> them trolls.
>> 
>> You're right, a better term for this is "drama whore".
> 
on 8/28/07 8:49 AM, Daniel R. Tobias at dan at tobias.name wrote:

> "Troll" (and its sometimes-creative synonyms and variants) seems to
> be a special exception to the "No Personal Attacks" policy, as people
> have no restraint from using it freely against anybody who has
> something to say that they'd rather not hear.

Exactly! That does seem to happen a lot here. It's like George Bush calling
anyone who speaks against the slaughter (excuse me, war) in Irag
'unpatriotic'. But this works only if the rest of us buy into the bullshit.

Marc