Don't feed the troll...

[Nick the Gr33k]

On 15/6/2013 10:54 μμ, rurpy at yahoo.com wrote:
> On 06/15/2013 12:18 PM, rusi wrote:
>> On Jun 15, 10:52 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve
>> +comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:36:00 -0700, rusi wrote:
>>>> With you as our spamming-guru, Onward! Sky is the limit!
>>>
>>> If you're going to continue making unproductive, off-topic, inflammatory
>>> posts that prolong these already excessively large threads, Nikos won't
>>> be the only one kill-filed.
>>
>> At least two people -- Alex and Antoon -- have told you that by
>> supporting Nikos, when everyone else wants him off list, you are part
>> of the problem.
>
> Nikos is only secondarily the problem, Steven not at all.
>
> The primary problem is a (relatively small) number of people
> who respond to every post by Nikos with a barrage of insults,
> demands, (what they think are) witty repartee, hints intended
> to "make" Nikos learn something, useless (to Nikos) links,
> new threads to discuss the "Nikos problem", and other trash
> that is far more obnoxious that anything Nikos posts and just
> serves to egg him on.
>
> Steven's advice on how to deal with Nikos was probably the
> most sensible thing I've seen posted here on the subject.
>
> I suggest that if you can and want to answer Nikos' question,
> do so directly and with a serious attempt address what it is
> he seems not to get,
>   or
> killfile him and shut the fuck up.
>
>> [...]
>> Everyone is exasperated and talking of kill-filing him.
>
> Don't be silly.  You don't know what "everyone" (the vast
> majority of whom read and don't post) here think.
>

Thank you ruspy.

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