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Mike Lastort wrote:
> 
> In article <35E64C75.C5A02411@clark.net>, klaatu@clark.net wrote:
> >Mike Lastort wrote:
> 
> >> I've done that, and now all I see are the people who take Tracey's troll
> >> bait. If everyone would *plonk* him and ignore any follow-ups, 75% of this
> >> group's garbage would simply go away.
> >
> >But we'd miss out on all of the worthy trolls!
> 
> Worthy trolls? Now *THAT'S* an oxymoron.

Eh, depends on the definition of troll you use. I use the fishing definition,
not the lives-under-bridges definition. Basically if it starts up a firestorm
of controversy with a relatively short expression, it's a troll. If it starts
up an incendiary blast of flamage and degenerates into the rhetorical
equivalent of a Meow Cascade it's a flame troll. If it evolves into a
meaningful debate, it was a well-crafted or worthy troll. 

Most trolls are of course mere flame trolls. Don't feed the fire and it'll go
out.

> 
> >> Didn't someone post something about a troll-free month a while ago? What
> >> happened to that initiative?
> >
> >Well, basically the best policies are to let the more-lame of the trolls
> >starve and wither away. But occasionally some trolls simply must be hammered
> >into the point of either submission or automation. Joe the Troll was one such,
> >and "Travid" is another. If you come back with something sensible, he just
> >goes away or comes-back with a peurile one-liner, and if you just toss
> >one-liners at him and he floods the group with copyrighted AP feed. I prefer
> >to try to either boggle the bad perl-script and make a live human type back,
> >or to coax the live human into passable rhetoric, if not acceptable logic or
> >political centrism.
> 
> Well, I doubt that sending follow-up messages to "Travid" will ever change
> his/her/its mind about anything. I don't really recall Joe the Troll.

Consider yourself blessed. 

> 
> >> BTW, Klaatu, been to any Despondent Astronaut shows lately?
> >
> >Nah. I don't get out much and bars cost too much anyway. And there's never any
> >parking. Plus that damned fake fog does things to my sinuses.
> 
> Fake fog? I thought that was smoke coming off Doctor Doom's guitar. :)
> 
> Mike Lastort
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