Self Policing Militia Summons

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

I think it's fairly obvious that TheMercenary is generally trolling in the politics forum, and more explicitly trolling Redux. I don't think that the usual prescription of ignoring trolls until they go away would work, because, as you say, Merc participates in other forums, and isn't likely to be ignored there.

If anyone else wanted to engage TheMercenary in the politics forum (and I did), he would be just as trollish to them. If anyone else engaged Redux, they would get a well researched and thoughtful response. I don't see how a response to monster's questionnaire affects that.

Totally agree. I like Merc, I get along just fine with him, but not if we discuss politics. As soon as it is even vageuly related to politics he turns into a total troll. I pretty much never see redux start this shit. I see him respond an awful lot. Maybe sometimes he could refrain from responding. But it still seems grotesquely unfair to target him because he can't refrain from fighting back, instead of the person who keeps provoking him.



[eta] not everyone wants to share their personal life. Some people just want to come and discuss stuff. Clearly the main focus of Redux's interests lies in political discussion. It is really not his fault that the only area he wants to be in is home to the resident troll.