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| Guest |
 Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:33 pm |
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Here is some fine advice from the Irish FAQ at
http://www.geocities.com/welisc/ifaq/part01.html#5
5) What is a troll? What should I do when I see one?
A troll is an attempt to start a prolonged flame war (a fierce
argument with rude, personal insults). A troll is usually an
article that is so outrageous, insulting and stupid that you
feel you have to reply. You can often recognise it because it
is crossposted to several groups (very few articles posted to
more than three groups are worth reading). If it is posted by
someone from whom you have never seen posts before (especially
if they are using an anonymous account), it is likely to be a
troll. Trolls will often flagrantly violate basic netiquette.
If you see a troll, the one thing you must not do is post an
angry reply. If you do, the troller will have succeeded. It
is better to ignore the troll. Trolls crave attention and
responding to them encourages them to keep posting.
soc.culture.irish has at times been overwhelmed with trolls
posting racist or sectarian rubbish that people naturally
wish to refute. Unfortunately, most trolls have an IQ only
slightly above room temperature and attempting to enlighten
them is an exercise in futility and frustration. Life is
too short to waste it arguing with these morons. The huge
waste of bandwidth caused by a troll's posts and responses
to them destroys much of the enjoyment to be had from
reading s.c.i. Arguing with a troll will not make them go
away but only encourage them to continue polluting the
newsgroup. The only effective way to get rid of a troll
is to ignore it. This admonition is considered so important
that it has been enshrined in the Lex Cunninghamensis,
which states:
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* Do not feed the trolls *
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If you have a killfile facility (sometimes called a filter)
in your newsreader, you can set it to ignore future posts
from the troll. This facility is named BlockSender in Outlook
Express. A good newsreader can also be set to "kill" a subject
(ignore future posts with that subject line).
See the FAQ about trolls at http://digital.net/~gandalf/trollfaq.html
for more information.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:59 pm |
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| Nebula |
| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:34 pm |
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Troll? Naaaaa......
Sounds more like and issue for a tissue. Whaaaa Whaaa! Whaaa! |
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| Curtis Croulet |
| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:13 pm |
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Quote: WHY ARE THERE SO MANY FUCKING NUT CASES
AND PERSONALITY DISORDERS IN AMATEUR ASTRONOMY@!?
It's not just astronomy. These people are walking the streets, getting
elected to school boards, Congress and even the presidency.
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Curtis Croulet
Temecula, California
33°27'59"N, 117°05'53"W |
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| starburst |
| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:07 am |
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John Carruthers wrote:
Quote: Sure he does. What you don't understand is constitutional law. On what
legal and constitutional grounds can you force someone to have their
children taught something that categorically disagrees with their
religion? Religion is constitutionally protected. Science and education
are not.
I know, "..here's a school that teaches science seperately from
religious studies. I don't agree with this, but I'll send my kids
there anyway". ??!
Send them to another school, just ask your priests for permission and
do it.
Or, educate them at home, or move to a fundamentalist state, you'll
love it.
jc
Don't toss *me* in there, son. I think that one of these issues is
philosophical and one is scientific. My personal religious views have no
problem with evolution or the scientific method. So my kids are gonna do
well on their science tests. Or I'm gonna clobber them.
As an aside, it is worth pointing out that neither of the major
Christian religions that identify their clergy with the title "priest"
(ie Anglicans and Catholics) have problems with evolution. It is rather
elements of the congregational tradition, eg baptists and pentacostals,
that can't reconcile their reading of the Bible with evolution. Go
figure. Democracy is clearly dangerous. |
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