Dudley Henriques wrote in
:

Bob Noel wrote:
In article , "Morgans"
wrote:

Surrender plays into the troll's hands and thus is one of the worst
ways to respond to a troll.
I'm not sure I understand the point you are trying to make.

What constitutes surrender, in your opinion?

Are you saying ignoring a troll is to play into a troll's hands?

No. DH appears to be surrendering and pooh-poohing the idea of
killfiling a troll.


Not so at all. Please re-read the following line from my post on the
issue;

Personally I see no problem whatsoever in allowing troll posts to be
handled as individuals see fit.

Is there something about this comment you don't understand?

Trolls and just who is and isn't a troll are subject to individual
interpretation as such. Therefore it is simply my opinion that any
action taken to "handle" or "not handle" these people should simply be
left to the individual to decide.

If kill filing someone is your thing, by all means have at it.
Personally I find people who constantly gripe and **** and moan about
who's top posting, bottom posting, and insertion posting, and taking
people to task on this issue the perfect troll on any newsgroup!


Ah, they are indeed the fertile grounds by which the successful troll
can plant the seeds fo discontent.

but the term troll is actually fairly well defined. It's gotten blurred
considerably by newbies shouting "troll!" at various k00ks, lamers and
other newbies over the years.

Anthony could be a troll, but I doubt it. He's really just looking to
show how smart he is, which is a bit of a strange thing for an idiot to
do when you think about it. It's kind of a Catch 22 for him, really.He's
too dumb to know how dumb he actually is,
This makes him a k00k in usenet parlance,though, not a troll.
I, OTOH, am a troll, though I'm not really operating in full troll mode
here at all. I don't really like to disrupt really useful groups and
this is definitely a really useful group. A lot of alt. goups, like
alt.disasters.aviation, for instance, were so top heavy with kooks
they're a troll's paradise. It's so easy to get an absolute riot going
in a place like that it's just brilliant.

Other opportunities present themselves from time to time where you get
someone that's just aching for a ****ing contest and is so ready to take
troll bait that it all ends in a frenzy that has to be seen to be
believed. These opportunities don't come along as often as they used to,
unfortunately, but still, there's some fun to be had.
In my days as a troll, I've mightely upset some nazis ( who actually
took it real life and painted a swastika on another troll's house) got
the governemnt of New Zealand ****ed off ( google my name and new
zealand for the newspaper story on that) and drove Ralphie Livingston
into a frothing frenzy daily for years on end.

Those were the days.


Bertie


If you're interested in becoming as troll, BTW, I will consider running
a corespondence course.