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[Cheyenne]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Steve, if you post something I consider spam, a painting I think is ugly or a poem I think is stupid, do you think I should follow the "if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all", rule, for fear of offending you?

Bruce, Steve is not on about that at all. What I believe he is trying to say is that maggie seems to be an angry troll with an internet vengeance against her real life reality. No life....angry....easy to slag off people on the net to payback all the crap we all know she must have received as a child and still yet as an adult. 'Tis easy to cast stones and argue when not face to face.

For four years I have seen Steve take 1,000 times worse trollism’s than Maggie tosses. No matter how hard you try and break him Maggie (referring to “it’s only an internet community”) you won’t achieve your goal. Far worse than you have tried.

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by Cheyenne

What I believe he is trying to say is that maggie seems to be an angry troll with an internet vengeance against her real life reality.

Of course he is. He wants to deflect attention from what I said by calling me names. It's called an ad hominem.

There's no point in him engaging what I said, because it's true. My "real life reality" is doing just fine...in fact I'm not spending it in hanging out in bars in Manhattan. It happens to include hanging out on the Cellar...where we've seen trolls before and know what real ones look like.

Originally Posted by Cheyenne

Far worse than you have tried.

So then this shouldn't bother him at all.

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by Cheyenne

Far worse than you have tried.

* gasp * no way. Of couse I havn't seen him post in a year.




About trolls. I don't think maggie is trolling. She is just wenching.

Many (perhaps most) people, labelled "trolls", are simply being called thus by someone else in the course of a religious, political or other ordinary type of dispute; in other words, they are labelled as one for acting as a dissident or heretic.



ok I looked up the definition. This is interesting.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll

Vicious circles

For many people, the characterising feature of trolling is the perception of intent to disrupt a community in some way. Inflammatory, sarcastic, disruptive or humorous content is posted, meant to draw other users into engaging the troll in a fruitless confrontation. The greater the reaction from the community the more likely the user is to troll again, as the person develops beliefs that certain actions achieve his/her goal to cause chaos. This gives rise to the often repeated protocol in Internet culture: "Do not feed the trolls."
Often, a person will post a sincere message about which he is emotionally sensitive. Skillful trolls know that an easy way to upset him is to falsely claim that he is a "troll." In forums where most users are similar to each other, outsiders may be perceived as trolls simply because they do not fit into the social norms of that group. It can sometimes be difficult to distinguish between a user who merely has different values, views, or ideas, and a user who is intentionally trolling. This can lead to genuinely hostile behavior, including flame wars.




According to this definition calling someone a troll especially an established member of a group is called trolling as well.


So again I say. She is not being a troll. Steve is a grown up he can deal with her annoyance.

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

Inflammatory, sarcastic, disruptive or humorous content is posted...

Ghod, that *never* happens here. :-)