what exactly constitutes a troll?

"Mike" wrote in message
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Nice joke.

Actually, just being a Texan has significantly helped in my being The
Arbiter Of Truth In The Universe since as a Texan, I'm always right...

"Sylvain" wrote in message
t...
sorry for the naive question, but what is all this fuss
about Mxsmanic? may be am I missing something obvious,
I must confess that I haven't read all his posts, but I
am a bit surprised by the rather hostile reactions that
he received; I mean, ok, he doesn't fly 'for real',
and sometimes his questions are a tad naives, but hey,
as far as I am concerned if he is an aviation enthusiast,
or at least a wanna-be, I don't see why he should be
shuned. May be he cannot afford to fly, may be is he
too young, may be is he a dog -- this is internet
remember :-) -- or whatever, but we seem to be getting
along just fine with Skylune who advocates grounding
us all, so what am I missing?

--Sylvain


The problem with him is that he asks a seemingly good question then when he
is answered by someone knowledgeable in the subject he argues that the
answer is wrong based on either his experience with MSFS or just his on
preconceived notions. Add to that his experience with MSFS isn't even
complete because he hasn't even gone through the tutorials that come with
it.

This isn't the first newsgroup where he has plaid this game either. Google
him via Google Groups and you will see the same thing elsewhere.

Have you considered that he may come across as annoying because
of different cultural background? when I moved to USA it took
me a while to pick up the clues as to what was ok and what was
not in a conversation, and I had the advantage of a) having
travelled / lived in different countries before -- so I should
have known better about different sensitivities, and b) interacting
with people in person rather than over the net (which masks out
all non verbal clues); The other thing is that he might be also
quite young; teenagers can be really annoying even when they
don't mean to be :-) it eventually wears off (with most people) :-)

--Sylvain

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote:
The problem with him is that he asks a seemingly good question then when
he is answered by someone knowledgeable in the subject he argues that the
answer is wrong based on either his experience with MSFS or just his on
preconceived notions. Add to that his experience with MSFS isn't even
complete because he hasn't even gone through the tutorials that come with
it.

"Sylvain" wrote in message
t...

Have you considered that he may come across as annoying because
of different cultural background?

As far as I can tell, he's an American ex-pat. But even so, we get plenty
of people from a wide variety of cultures and for the most part people deal
with it just fine. I don't think this is a cultural thing.

[...] The other thing is that he might be also
quite young; teenagers can be really annoying even when they
don't mean to be :-)

I've known lots of teens who are just as respectful, or even more so, than
adults. But in any case, he's been around for years. He might have a
teen's maturity, but his actual age is almost certainly beyond that.

Pete

when I moved to USA it took
me a while to pick up the clues as to what was ok and what was
not in a conversation

Are you willing to share examples? Where did you come from?

Jose
--
"Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where
it keeps its brain." (chapter 10 of book 3 - Harry Potter).
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

Sylvain,

Have you considered that he may come across as annoying because
of different cultural background?


I don't think so. He's annoyed people from a wide range of backgrounds
here. Texans as well as Californians g, Germans, French...

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Thomas Borchert wrote:

I don't think so. He's annoyed people from a wide range of backgrounds
here. Texans as well as Californians g, Germans, French...

whaoow. These people tend to be naturally annoyed at each other, to
make them all agree on what is annoying is impressive ;-)

--Sylvain