Re: Trolls & other things...

From: Michael Baldwin Bruce (mbbruce_at_mighty.co.za)
Date: 03/08/05 

Date: 7 Mar 2005 22:46:17 -0800

Bruce AKA tholen@antispam.ham wrote:
> Nightingale writes:
>
> > Michael Haslam wrote:
>
> >>> Really? Why do you think he is more of a disruption than the
trolls
> >>> that are infesting the group? Art Deco and Bruce are the month's
top
> >>> posters again, and very little (if any) of what they post is on
topic.
>
> >> They don't "live" here on rmc; they are only posting hundreds of
> >> messages a month (in similar fashion but sans some of the charm
and wit
> >> to you and me and a few others a year or so ago)
>
> > Do you really think that what we posted last year is similar to
what
> > Deco and the others did to the "Hi Sheila" thread?
>
> >> because of tholen's
> >> digests and tallies. The tallies become an Everest to be conquered
- I'm
> >> sure that sociologists have a name for this sort of thing.
>
> > I wonder if they also have a cure.
>
> >>> I think there is sufficient proof, and it would be nice to find a
way to
> >>> banish the trolls, but that problem may be unsolvable - even if
some of
> >>> them leave, new ones show up, so this group always has at least a
few.
>
> >> But tholen attracts trolls to rmc in quantity and quality like no
other
> >> bona fide poster because of his apparently Usenet-wide notoriety
as a
> >> net-kook.
>
> > Not usenet-wide. I had been reading other groups for quite a
while, but
> > had never heard of him before the summer I joined this group.
>
> Haslam hasn't been interested in the truth, Nightingale.

What does your classic antagonism, laced with invective, have to do
with classical music, Bruce?

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