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[Don Hensley]

I really hope that was not the way you took my comment about trolls. 

I meant it in exactly the way a troll is defined here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll

"In Internet terminology, a troll is someone who intentionally posts 
derogatory or otherwise inflammatory messages about sensitive topics in an 
established online community such as an online discussion forum to bait users 
into responding." 

I did say that one should first make every effort possible, at least that is 
what I meant by;

" After a honest endeavor to explain something to some one, it sometimes 
becomes apparent that they are not interested in anything except causing 
problems, and that they had no intention of either learning, or teaching 
anyone anything."

After reading the comments on Yasith's blog, I thought I detected a troll at 
work. Possibly I was wrong, and it is good that some of you have more 
patience then I.

But at some point we all are going to be faced with a troll, and when that 
point arrives I think my advice is sound.

But we each must decide at what point our efforts are being spent feeding the 
troll, instead of helping a person.

All in all a rather subjective point I'd say.

BTW, BinaryFreedom is a really great site.

D. Hensley.
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 On Tuesday 24 April 2007 12:53 pm, Jacob Maynard wrote:
Gentlemen,

Let's remember that we are not trying to turn this into a battle over
whose is better than whose regardless of facts. We can't let it turn into
a name-calling battle, either. If you have questions, there are sure to be
plenty of people here to help. Thank you, Yasith for asking for help.

We can't just let the "trolls" be ignored in blogs, though. What we need
is to show them the ways that they are wrong with hard proof. I've seen
the DRM slides. There's more proof like that out there. We need it to be
publicized. We need to combat the "trolls" with tact.

Keep up the good work.

Jacob

> Hi guys,
>   I sent an email before this to say that i have posted an article on my
> blog. Now some anonymous guy is commenting on it and I'd be very much
> thankful if some of you guys can visit my blog and comment on that post
> answering the anonymous guy's questions, because I find it hard to answer
> some questions. the link for that post is
> http://tuxv.blogspot.com/2007/04/bad-vista.html
>
> cheers
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