Posted by SLS on June 28, 2016, at 14:11:27
In reply to Re: Please. » SLS, posted by Tabitha on June 28, 2016, at 12:46:18
> > I think it is important for the health of Psycho-Babble that the subject line not be hijacked by the same person over and over again. People are simply replying to these posts without rewriting the subject line to excise the toll's name and to return it to its previous verbiage. Failing to do so perpetuates the person's name along threads and makes for an ugly, irrelevant forum.
> Scott, without re-hashing the argument over whether the poster's intentions are malicious or not, can we discuss whether or not it is civil to call another poster a troll? What do you think Bob's response would be?
It is interesting that no one comes to my defense when the troll attacks me incessantly with such obviously uncivil content.
I do vacillate in my appraisal of the troll's behaviors.
Perhaps you can tell me why you feel that the troll is not a troll.
For now, I will use the following as a guideline to establishing trollhood:
"In Internet slang, a troll (/'tro?l/, /'tr?l/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory,[1] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[2] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion,[3] often for their own amusement."
"Experienced participants in online forums know that the most effective way to discourage a troll is usually to ignore it,[citation needed] because responding tends to encourage trolls to continue disruptive posts hence the often-seen warning: "Please do not feed the trolls"."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll
In the absence of a moderator, and in consideration of the unfettered uncivil behaviors of the troll, especially when the content of its posts casts dispersions upon my character, behaviors, motivations, and affiliations, I don't have any regrets in calling the troll a troll - at least for now. Am I civil? I imagine not. My incivilities are few, I should think. Perhaps I slipped off track? For right now, I really don't care.
The behavior of the troll grows more and more uncivil and offensive. It is apparently refractory to teachability despite years of people trying to guide it. To ignore the troll seems to me to be the best solution anyone has come up with yet.
I'm mentally ill, you know. There should be more tolerance of my incivilities, don't you think? I should not expect others to guide, reprimand, shame, or judge me for that reason, regardless of how much of a troll I become.
I would love for Dr. Bob to return to throw me out for a few weeks, as long as the enforcement of civility returns and he throws the troll out as well. To sanction the troll's behavior with posting blocks would greatly mitigate the deterioration of the forum. I think you would be surprised by how much self-control the troll has when it is confronted with posting blocks. Be not deceived.
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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