# Regarding trolls, spammers, noise-makers, and such **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 10, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regarding-trolls-spammers-noise-makers-and-such/186664 "2010-04-10T23:26:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regarding-trolls-spammers-noise-makers-and-such/186664/1 "2010-04-10T23:26:00Z")
A plea: First, one person’s troll/spammer/idiot is another’s savant, but mostly people have a similar appreciation for when someone is just being a dick. Second, efforts to flat-out ban or block people from ruby-talk/Ruby Forum/comp.lang.ruby, whatever, are either non-existent or sufficiently unreliable. So, please, when you realize that someone is spamming or trolling or whatever negative thing, do this: Nothing. - Do not argue - Do not condemn - Do not reply It only makes things worse. Instead, let such threads die as fast as possible. If you still feel compelled to do something, start a new thread with an interesting and valuable topic to up the signal[0]. Thanks, James B. [0] I’m unsure whether this post is self-consistent or not. I’ll leave that to the ghost of Bertrand Russell. ---
**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regarding-trolls-spammers-noise-makers-and-such/186664/2 "2010-04-10T23:48:15Z")
James, You know M.F. and he has seen much of this work… our first project together (the Bicycle domain) worked out beautifully. The 2nd project did not go to completion, but he saw all the pieces working. The whole Ru’id thing was only in the background of the project so I don’t want to make it sound like MF was seeing too much of that. However MF knows that I’m a live person and that what he asked for was paid and so on. He’s the single brightest programmer I have ever “known” as such. Since the 2nd project didn’t fly I have concentrated on this whole “ru’id” thing and it has worked out nicely. In fact it has worked better than expected and the performance of 2,000 “firings” per second seems more than adequate to do some exciting Ruby things. I trusted MF 100% with all the code and would have no problem doing so again. Thunk ---
**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 3:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regarding-trolls-spammers-noise-makers-and-such/186664/3 "2010-04-11T03:04:08Z")
thunk wrote: > James, > > You know M.F. and he has seen much of this work… our first project > together (the Bicycle domain) worked out beautifully. The 2nd project > did not go to completion, but he saw all the pieces working. The > whole Ru’id thing was only in the background of the project so I don’t > want to make it sound like MF was seeing too much of that. However MF > knows that I’m a live person and that what he asked for was paid and > so on. He’s the single brightest programmer I have ever “known” as > such. > > Since the 2nd project didn’t fly I have concentrated on this whole > “ru’id” thing and it has worked out nicely. In fact it has worked > better than expected and the performance of 2,000 “firings” per second > seems more than adequate to do some exciting Ruby things. > > I trusted MF 100% with all the code and would have no problem doing so > again. > > Thunk Well isn’t that a slap in the face?! Someone spam his email. Give him some of his own medicine. (Sorry I know the OP requested not to reply to spammers but seriously. I don’t think that’ll stop him. (He probably enjoys that))