"HARRY POTTER" wrote in message
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I agree with you on Bertie, but not MX. I honestly think MX posts here
because he genuinely wants to learn about piloting. All his threads starts
on a reasonable tone. Its other people who turn it into a ****fest, which
he then responds to. His "trolling", I feel, is mainly caused by his
frustration of the fact that people judge his opinions solely on who he
is,
rather than what he posts. If people treated his opinions like they would
anybody else, he'd stop being so blatantly obtuse.

It's like punishing a dog when it does something bad, as well as punishing
it when it does something good. After a while, the punishment loses all
meaning. People here think that by being rude to him everytime he makes a
post is going to drive him away, but all it's doing is making him more and
more bitter and dismissive of people's criticism.

Bertie, on the other hand, reminds me of this kid I knew in middle school
whose acting up in class was largely caused by all the other kids in the
class' giggling at his antics. As long as people keep namedropping Bertie
him in their more serious threads and showing sycophantic feelings towards
him, his trolling "personality" will continue to be positively reinforced
and it'll never stop.

Bertie's trolling is caused by something completely different that what
causes MX to troll, so they need to be dealt with differently.


You must be new to the group. Give it a little time, you are making the same
mistake others have made, many times before. In fact, MX counts on new
people to feed his threads. He is totally lost without them. They are the
only reason he is still here today.