choppy wrote:I now feel bad about having fed the troll. I apologise. I must admit, I'm not very experienced with the common internet troll. I don't understand their motivations.
Anyhow, I'm on board.
now i feel bad about you feeling bad! i'm not kidding! there's no reason to feel bad. responding to trolling is more normal and human than not responding is. not responding goes against my nature anyway, and i think it's the same for other folks. the whole reason trolling exists enough to have a name is because it's an effective technique by which weird little people can get themselves all kind of attention. it works. and it's hard to resist.
i just wanna clarify, too, that this isn't a thread about poster XYZ, or directed specifically against poster XYZ. it's more a call to all of us to "don't feed The Troll" right now, actively. and i mean the general "The Troll", not any specific guy. some people think one person or another is The Troll. it just seems to me that The Troll is once again on the huge upswing, and now with massive amounts of anti-gay and racist speech. which i think almost all of us agree is a sad, disgusting state of affairs. not because we're uptight pussies (oops, anti-female, too, huh?) but because we're decent, adult human beings.
LVP wrote:If, say, 10% of lions tried to kill gazelles, compared with 10% of savannah animals in general, I think that gazelle would be a lousy racist jerk.