Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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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.



I remember. You and Ralphie were into it big time when I first arrived
on Usenet. What a hoot that was!

At the time I had absolutely no idea what a troll was. It wasn't till
years later I came to fully appreciate the term and realize that some
of the REALLY good trolls were unbelievably talented people engaging
in what literally could be defined as an art form.
I've gotten used to Usenet over time and have learned how to sort out
the chaff and appreciate the good side of all of it.
Like you, I enjoy specific newsgroups and have found some good people
living on them.......even a few trolls whom I've come to know :-)


Yeah, some of them are incredible. I don't tend to run with the pack,
but I'm not averse to the occasional invasion of a neo nazi group.
Anthony was actually passed on to me by another troll who figured I
would get more use out of him than most. He's not a flashy k00k, like
Ralphie was, but he is dependable and pretty low maintenance. Someday
I'll get him out on the open road and see what he'll really od. Judging
from this glimpse of his k00kiness with teh sockpuppet I think he'll
really move!

Bertie


He's a trip all right. I wish you luck with him. It's fun watching. he
just underposted me in the sim group on a comment I made there.
What a character!! You have to admire his spunk.

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Dudley Henriques