32GO wrote:
Hey folks -
Please use this thread - and only this thread! - for
any comments you absolutely can't resist making about
the TROLL for the next week or two. If you can't
suppress the need to quote it, please cut and paste
without any concern for conventional Usenet continuity.
For this crap, who cares, anyway?
Regards,
Wayne
I see that Worthinton's worthless, HEAD Dolan the GRATE, has himself
already responded. OK ... I can't' resist. Since DOlan has labeled
you a troll, but has once again incorrectly asserted that he is not, it
is time to repost this. Of course the predictable reply from the
persecuted martyr will be that he is a victim of the most pathetic of
all internet creature ... a stalker, meaning me ... you know the usual
crap . I've responded to that nonsense countless times before.
Suffice it to say though that he asked for it and I accommodated him
and now he's being a cry baby, ****ing and moaning about getting what
he asked for and deserved. Oh well. Frankly, I couldn't care less
what Ed Dolan thinks of me. His opinion matters to because he matters
not, but let me get on with it.
"I think there are good trolls and there are bad trolls. It goes
without saying of course that I am a good troll" ... Ed Dolan (in his
own words).
NO ... there are just Trolls. There is nothing either explicit or
implicit in the definition of a troll that can possibly be misconstrued
as good. GOOD TROLL is an oxymoron. The American Psychiatric
Association considers the internet troll personality to be a mental
disorder. Is there anything good about that?
Trolls are often socially disenfranchised, devoid of interpersonal
interaction skills. They generally have no substantive connection to
the cyber-community they troll and view the internet as a convenient,
delocalized communication conduit for their bizarre anti-social
behavior. The internet is their cyber-playpen ... a mirror into which
they can gaze in narcissistic rapture. A troll delights in upsetting
people and creating discord. Trolls post inflammatory, rude,
offensive, repetitious messages deliberately crafted to annoy,
antagonize and infuriate or to disrupt the flow of discussion. Trolls
post attention-seeking, provocative messages hoping to bait and entice
other users into angry and/or fruitless responses. Trolls are
impervious to criticism. One cannot negotiate with a troll. One
cannot cause a troll to feel shame, compassion or remorse. Trolls do
not feel that they are bound or constrained by rules of courtesy or
social responsibility. When one tries to reason with a troll, the
troll wins. When one insults a troll, the troll wins.
Here are just but a few trademarks of the internet troll that are
exemplified by Ed Dolan...
- off topic messages (most everything)
- cross posting (a tool often employed)
- racist, sexist, classist comments (too many examples to even cite)
- messages expressing unsubstantiated opinions as though they were
facts
not requiring proof or evidence (extremely common practice)
- messages containing a self-referential appeal to status (commonplace)
- politically contentious messages (attacks on liberals come to mind)
- attacking another's point of view and generally affixing a label to
the
- personal attacks (frequently employed tactic)
- attempt to make one's personality the center of every discussion
(ARBR,
Usenet, the universe ... his "GREATNESS" knows no limits) deriving
perverse
pleasure from causing frustration, anger and pain
(only one of several assumed motives)
- self-proclaimed trolls suggest that trolling is their way of
improving
forum discussion ("housekeeping" rationalization rhetoric comes to
mind)
enjoys the knowledge that they waste others' time at comparatively
little
effort on their behalf (cut and paste boilerplate is an indication of
this)
- self-promotion (no comment should even be necessary) feigning to be a
misunderstood humorist (commonplace)
- deliberately using ambiguous language to obfuscate meaning
(commonplace)
If the above cited elements sound like a portrait of Ed Dolan, it very
well should. His own words betray his malicious intentions ... "I am
merely a gadfly buzzing about this group ever striving to create some
mayhem". With each and every post, Ed Dolan replenishes his identity
as ARBR's quintessential TROLL.
Trolls crave attention, be it positive or negative. The one thing that
a troll can't accept or tolerate is to be ignored. There is wisdom in
the often cited advice ... Please don't feed the troll. Perhaps it
would be best then to ignore the obnoxious, geriatric juvenile ... head
swollen Ed Dolan. In the greater scheme of things, he matters not. He
is insignificant and irrelevant.
For additional information about trolls, I refer you to the following
links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/5/15/19332/5961
Jim McNamara