kurai
11-08-03, 23:57
*sigh* It's worth repeating ...
Learn to use the "Ignore" button in the profile of wandering trolls.
There are a few people's posts I thankfully don't see any more because it simply isn't worth the half second of my life each time to skip whatever pointless troll they feel like posting on any given day.
You can always tell they are around, even so, because people will insist on quoting them in their own posts, and you can almost watch the threads explode in length (although notably *not* in worthwhile content) before your very eyes.
I've been around the internet/usenet/mailing-lists/irc/forums blah blah a *long* time, and seen a million of that type come, and a million go.
Don't waste your time responding - they exist purely to suck your life away into the black hole of whatever compulsive psychosis they suffer.
You'll never change them by rational argument or logic, or appeals to their better nature, or by flaming - their aim is simply to goad you into response - the topic and content is utterly irrelevant.
Just give it up as a lost cause, people, and move on.
The nature of the internet being what it is there will be another one along in 30 seconds anyway.
Learn to use the "Ignore" button in the profile of wandering trolls.
There are a few people's posts I thankfully don't see any more because it simply isn't worth the half second of my life each time to skip whatever pointless troll they feel like posting on any given day.
You can always tell they are around, even so, because people will insist on quoting them in their own posts, and you can almost watch the threads explode in length (although notably *not* in worthwhile content) before your very eyes.
I've been around the internet/usenet/mailing-lists/irc/forums blah blah a *long* time, and seen a million of that type come, and a million go.
Don't waste your time responding - they exist purely to suck your life away into the black hole of whatever compulsive psychosis they suffer.
You'll never change them by rational argument or logic, or appeals to their better nature, or by flaming - their aim is simply to goad you into response - the topic and content is utterly irrelevant.
Just give it up as a lost cause, people, and move on.
The nature of the internet being what it is there will be another one along in 30 seconds anyway.