The nice thing about threads is that they act as natural containment
boundaries for off-topicness. It’s both cheap and easy to ignore
things at the level of a thread, and the incremental offtopicity of a
post in an already off-topic thread approaches zero.
(Srsly, and without sarcasm, if you don’t have a threaded
mail/newsreader, you don’t know what you’re missing out on. It makes a
huge efficiency difference.)
That, and having bayesian anti-SPAM makes it relatively easy to
automatically flag trolls and park them in the Junk folder (this is a
relatively efficient poor-man’s killfile for people without procmail).
Damn, I actually posted in this thread, I’ll have to take a shower
now…
Lionel
Better yet, time for a new thread. Entitled, I Need Serious Technical
Advice! And I assure that I will not be the intentional cause of a flame
war like the one that was caused by a misunderstanding of the question.
Peter S. wrote:
Well, given that many of us are reading this in plain text, not on any
“forums”, but on a mailing list,
Not to mention comp.lang.ruby.
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 03:01:50PM +0900, Robert D. wrote:
That’s nice Aur, because my humble feelings are that you just should
not have fed the troll, all of you.
I did not say so publicly because I am probably mistaken, given that
so many prominent members answered.
I was quite surprised it got so much food, an amazing – but
unpleasant – experience :(.
As one of the people who fed the troll, I have to agree – we were just
feeding a troll. I should have kept my virtual mouth shut a bit more.
Ben B. wrote:
Saying something doesn’t make it so.
Yes, it does. I just said so.
Hal
On 7/16/07, SonOfLilit [email protected] wrote:
to do that to me than some others practices that have been mentioned
If you feel like a long discussion, email me privately.
Aur
That’s nice Aur, because my humble feelings are that you just should
not have fed the troll, all of you.
I did not say so publicly because I am probably mistaken, given that
so many prominent members answered.
I was quite surprised it got so much food, an amazing – but
unpleasant – experience :(.
Robert