[WikiEN-l] WP:DENY is a steaming pile of crap.
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Thu Nov 8 18:00:03 UTC 2007
Matthew Brown wrote:
> Whether or not 'persistent troublemaker' equates to 'troll' is
> dependent on one's definition of troll. By my definition, not all
> persistent troublemakers are trolls; the repeated blatant vandaliser,
> for instance, isn't a troll by my definition, yet they may be as much
> encouraged by recognition.
It takes 24 keystrokes to enter "persistent troublemaker" and only 5 to
enter "troll". Similarly, it takes only 3 keystrokes to proclaim "NPA"
(not counting the shift key); that certainly beats explaining the whole
thing to someone. This is the place where elaborate templates are
devised to save a few keystrokes.
Evidently a suffering language is the price of convenience.
Ec
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