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To all,
As you can see the discussions with (e-mail address removed) are
meaningless. It doesn't matter what you say or how you say it, we're
not going to convince him we're right. Judging from his other posts I
believe the following URL will summarize the situation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll
Oh, and if you don't feel like reading the entire article, read at
least this excerpt:
"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.""
So in summary if you agree with me, then please stop responding to him!
It only makes things worse!
Thanks,
Seth Rowe
As you can see the discussions with (e-mail address removed) are
meaningless. It doesn't matter what you say or how you say it, we're
not going to convince him we're right. Judging from his other posts I
believe the following URL will summarize the situation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll
Oh, and if you don't feel like reading the entire article, read at
least this excerpt:
"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.""
So in summary if you agree with me, then please stop responding to him!
It only makes things worse!
Thanks,
Seth Rowe