Responding to Trolls [was Re: ignorance and intolerance in computing communties]

[James Stroud]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 02 May 2007 21:23:13 -0700, James Stroud wrote:
> 
> 
>>Xah Lee wrote:
>>
>>>Today, a motherfucker Christophe Rhodes (aka Xof in irc://chat.freenode.net/lisp
>>>) kicked banned me.
>>
>>Are you aware that you are a troll? Have you considered that this has 
>>anything to do with your being kick-banned? Why do 99.999999 % of the 
>>people on the web not get treated like you? Answer: you are a troll and 
>>they are not.
> 
> 
> Sometimes I dream of a world, a wonderful, far away world, where nobody
> was allowed to post to Usenet until they can correctly answer the
> following multiple-choice question:
> 
> Q Verbally abusing trolls ... 
> 1. gives them the attention they crave
> 2. fails to discourage their trollish behaviour
> 3. annoys the people who otherwise wouldn't have seen the troll's post
> 4. all of the above

If you say so, but I honestly can not fathom such twisted psychology.

James