[WikiEN-l] Jayjg is not AWOL

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

"Stephen Bain" wrote

> It seems to me that a useful way to not feed the trolls is to not call
> them trolls.

De jure, cslling someone a troll is a personal attack (an ad hominem argument for paying them no attention). De facto, it is a message to the rest of the list: any successful troll can get half the posts saying "no, go on, this is interesting" in a situation where there is smoke without fire and no smoke. "Do not feed the trolls" means that logic alone cannot kill such a thread.

Charles

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