I give up, after many, many years!

HARRY POTTER wrote in
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Maxwell wrote:

Very well said Jim. I often disagree with you, but today is not one
of those times.

It amazes me how many otherwise sensible people, continue to enable
not only Mx, but Bertie as well, by supplying them with STRAIGHT
answers.

They are literally feeding the trolls. It causes me to seriously
consider the agenda of anyone that does so.

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.`


mmm, yes and no, while attention is always nice, it's not central to
what I do or why I do it. I kinda thought that would be a bit more
obvious.

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


And good luck with that, you'll be the first.



Bertie