re: [meta]: definition: co-moron

From: Acme Diagnostics (LFinezapthis_at_partpostmark.net)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: 14 Feb 2005 16:09:52 -0600

"Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com> wrote:
>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.

Well that surprises the hell out of me. But since you're
the demonstrated expert^2 and an honest reporter, what you
"think" in this area is more-or-less deciding for me.

I must reconcile that with my limited experience
of my own clear and substantial on-balance success in said
activity on posting record, some unambiguous as I interpret it.

It seems I've made a hasty generalization.

What I will do, at least, is retract my statement at the top
and stop posting it.

>_Any_ feedback, however negative,
>feeds the ego of the troll, thus

Agreed.

>> (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.

Well said. Examples abound. Currently on my radar
is a moron named George Hammond claiming in alt.philosophy and
roaming cross-posted groups that high IQ people can decide the
God Question scientifically, spamming his site each time.
Numerous co-morons participating, though a few in favor seem like
socks to me. I haven't replied to him for just the reasons
outlined above. Well, once maybe, since I have the world's
greatest <g> IQ refutation handy.

I am now relegated to embedded grins, since trolls have
taken to snipping them off in quotes thus making my
more idiotic assertions appear completely serious. I'm trying
such tacky techniques as first-letter pairs also to intrinsically
indicate Larry levity as an awkward alternative. Anyway, I
took your "my contribution for this nanosecond" as similar
xanthian a... um... xylophone? Nah, dat's-a no good.

>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.]

I don't understand why you don't write a reader and use
one of the free or essentially free servers. Of course I will
understand the instant you post the reason.

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