Please. Don't. Feed. The. Trolls. It causes a dangerous swelling of their ego, and uncontrollable vomiting of ill-informed screeds into the comments section.
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BULLSH*1T!!11
Hitler said the same effin thing.
You're monthly reminder: you suck.
I'm deeply hurt.
But we're really hungry. Could you spare a body part?
Sheesh, get a life, people.
Rick, you got too many characters in "bullsh*1t", and you can't spell very well.
I'm all for brevity (except when I'm against it), but...huh? Whuh the frack you talking about?
The blogger who runs half a dozen posts about *Ron Paul* is admonishing other people not to feed the trolls?
;-)
This blog only permits ill-informed screeds from its ill-informed author.
Vomit, this is weak tea. I'm sure that you can do better than that if you take a little extra time with your comments. Perhaps a pun would be funnier?
Ummmm.....who's feeding the trolls NOW?
Bad girl.
Vomit tea. That sounds like troll food.
Jim, trolls are people wedded to an ideology who post comments just to provoke responses that usually result in moderately interested people not wanting to bother reading further because they've heard the silly arguments before, find it uninteresting (lots of writing and little substance), or find the tone the discussion takes on intolerable.
Oo! Megan, I think I have come up with a possible example of Giffen Behavior in the US.
Can we extend this principle to Glenn Greenwald? He is just a pompous troll with a blog.
The aggression that is shown towards Megan is quite sickening. I can understand one of the reasons why you wrote such a good post on race. It says "Monthly Reminder", so it is clearly general, maybe anticipating the next post on race.
I would only say to Megan that language like 'vomiting of ill-informed screeds' is provocative.
"Can we extend this principle to Glenn Greenwald? He is just a pompous troll with a blog."
A troll is anonymous, by definition. Greenwald is a Constitutional lawyer, best-selling author and influential Salon columnist who often points out the misdeeds of politicians and their media enablers.
His writing is consistently calm, rational and compelling, not to mention a welcome tonic is these days of media lapdog-ism. The only people who have a problem with him are Bushie dead-enders.
Greenwald is an overrated one-track hack, but he's not a troll.
A troll doesn't need to be anonymous. That's the kind of thing a troll would say. Same thing about Greenwald, only a troll would defend for just for the hell of it.
And calm doesn't make one not a troll, usually they present themselves calmly, at least at first. The intent is usually to make other come unhinged.
ignatov's comment is a near perfect example of a trollish comment. The exception being that the responses add to the discussion relevant to topic post. If people just railed against Glenn Greenwald, that would be a typical troll feeding reaction.
Then, Kevin P. comment may be a trollish comment too, since he may be aiming to sideline the conversation on troll behavior and proper reactions and replace it with a converstion on someone no one really cares about.
"A troll doesn't need to be anonymous."
True, I guess. I concede this point.
"ignatov's comment is a near perfect example of a trollish comment"
Well I wouldn't say "perfect." Let's just say above average. But wait. Trollish? How so? Was it the Bushie bit? I guess that was below-the-belt. My apologies to all the Bush appeasers out there.(Whoops, there I go again!)
"Then, Kevin P. comment may be a trollish comment too, since he may be aiming to sideline the conversation on troll behavior and proper reactions and replace it with a converstion on someone no one really cares about."
Again, true. I was feeding a troll, the very thing Megan asked us not to do before doing it herself. My admiration of Mr. Greenwald's work prompted my defense of him. Apologies for being off-topic.
Yeah true, you were more feeding the troll than anything else.
ignatov @ 1:14 pm May 16th
For all the wonderful medical advances we've made lately, we are no where near the time when you can have W's baby.
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