[meta]: definition: co-moron

From: Kent Paul Dolan (xanthian_at_well.com)
Date: 02/13/05 

Date: 12 Feb 2005 16:23:44 -0800

Acme Diagnostics wrote:
> "willisA40" wrote:

>> Agree with excellent definition of co-moron.
>> However morons responding to trolls are already
>> morons, so the troll becomes the co-moron.

> In context. If you are not responding in context,
> but only to identify the moron, then that's
> housekeeping.

I don't think so. _Any_ feedback, however negative,
feeds the ego of the troll, thus

: (1) any feedback at all is bad tactics, and

: (2) each group participant is _separately_
: responsible for recognizing when a posting is a
: moron's attempt to troll a newsgroup, and then
: for refusing to acknowledge it with a response.

The problem is endemic to Usenet. Richard Bos
recently gave this excellent advice in
rec.games.roguelike.nethack:

:: _No_. These creatures thrive on attention, and
:: nothing else. As, in fact, you can observe
:: downthread. The only solution is to simply let
:: them simmer in their own milksop - eventually,
:: their poor adolescent minds will tire of their
:: game, with no feedback (and remember, to this
:: species of loser, any feedback is positive), and
:: then they will slouch off in search of new prey
:: to slobber over, in some other newsgroup.

FYI

xanthian.

[I apologize for the strange line leaders on the
indented paragraphs; Google Groups Beta has a bug,
of which they are well aware, that deletes leading
whitespace from lines of postings. I'm using them
here despite that problem because they allow one
extra newsgroup over MailGate in crossposts.]

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