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OFF TOPIC - Trash the TROLL
Hey Again Guys -
I'm somewhat amazed as I see 50-something messages in the 'OFF TOPIC - TROLL Rear-ended' thread, which I flippantly started on ARBR earlier this week - first, that so many folks still seem to be incapable of avoiding the temptation to reply directly to the TROLL. I'd like to remind them - yet AGAIN!: * PLEASE DON'T FEED THE TROLL! - meaning totally ignore it to whatever extent you're capable; most especially please don't bother with one-liner cheapshots that we've heard before, probably even expressed a bit more amusingly * Even if the TROLL cheapshots YOU, just let it go; how many readers do you really think have any regard for its opinions or social preferences? * Please try to bear in mind that messages posted on a newsgroup are sent to hundreds of folks who are not the TROLL and who probably really aren't terribly interested in what you have to say to it; please just email it directly... unless of course you think at least a few of us might be amused by its humiliation and/or your sly wit * Please don't reply to any thread started by the TROLL * Please don't reply directly to any of its messages in any other thread, even one that appears to be on-topic; if you absolutely have to post a comment, reply to a message by another poster * Even if you can't manage to comply with those requests, please don't ever repeat the full content of any of its messages; just snip and clip whatever short statement you address in your post * PLEASE trim all the newsgroups other than the one in which you most often participate; indiscriminate cross- posting SUCKS, and any exchanges you have with the TROLL are clearly exempt from normal newsgroup conventions I'm reiterating these suggested guidelines primarily in consideration of those readers using actual newsreader software who have kill-filed the TROLL, as well as those few who look in on web-based ARBR archives (like cyclingforums.com) which block the TROLL. If all potential posters would follow most of these simple suggestions, those folks would never even see more than a few of the misogynistic moron's mangled mistruths and/or misspelled misstatements. The second surprise of that thread was that I was even a minor topic of conversation. Since the crabby old codger began blatantly violating yet another basic netiquette tenet by degenerating from merely cross (contrary) posting to (even more offensive) cross-posting to multiple forums, it occurs to me that some (maybe three or so?) of you newer TROLL targets may be wondering why I haven't bothered to counterpoint its pitiably pathetic, patently preposterous prattle. Well, bottom line, as I hinted above, I feel pretty sure most folks know that the TROLL, to quote ARBR stalwart JimmyMac, has a perverse compulsion to: ... proclaim lots of crap only to be proven wrong time and time again. So much for [its] integrity, reliability and trustworthiness. But, hey, I haven't added to the TROLL FAQs entries on our website for a while. Maybe it'll be fun to address the idiot's inane ideology there again; if you care, check in for an update, maybe next week - at ARBR of course; I won't be cross-posting anymore. I hope all you folks from parts of the world with real seasons have a wonderful Spring! Regards, Wayne |
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