“Umbrella Man” agent provocateur unmasked

[JEDIYoda]

Don't feed the trolls.

But trolls like guppie food!!!

 

[brycejones]

Also doesn't follow a conversation.

Zoooom.

Just pointing out your tolerance of evil and excuse for it.

 

[Muse]

But they have nothing else to live for! Don't you feel the least bit sorry for their pathetic lives?

I can be sympathetic, but I'm seeing a lot of perfectly good threads get hijacked by trolls and most of the posts become all about people taking major issue with their posts. The threads become crapped out. It's usually by someone I'm ignoring (I have around 1/2 dozen people on my ignore list) and I usually don't bother unignoring the content that's being taken issue with... these are people whose posts are 80+% of time time responded to with WTF.

Just pointing out your tolerance of evil and excuse for it.

See? Stuff like this.

 

[SMOGZINN]

I can be sympathetic, but I'm seeing a lot of perfectly good threads get hijacked by trolls and most of the posts become all about people taking major issue with their posts. The threads become crapped out. It's usually by someone I'm ignoring (I have around 1/2 dozen people on my ignore list) and I usually don't bother unignoring the content that's being taken issue with... these are people whose posts are 80+% of time time responded to with WTF.

The thing is I don't think most of them are trolls. I think they honestly believe the stuff they are saying. I mean there are honestly people like that. There has to be because that is why we have this current administration. You don't like their positions, but that does not make them trolls.

And anyway, if we all just agreed with each other this entire forum would have like 4 posts a day.

 

[brycejones]

The thing is I don't think most of them are trolls. I think they honestly believe the stuff they are saying. I mean there are honestly people like that. There has to be because that is why we have this current administration. You don't like their positions, but that does not make them trolls.

And anyway, if we all just agreed with each other this entire forum would have like 4 posts a day.

I disagree it would have 5 posts a day or maybe 3. But the posts per capitas would be way down and if we mess with the capitas it’s going to get very confusing.

I don’t mind the disagreements, I kind the attempts to deny observable reality.

 

[pmv]

The thing is I don't think most of them are trolls. I think they honestly believe the stuff they are saying. I mean there are honestly people like that. There has to be because that is why we have this current administration. You don't like their positions, but that does not make them trolls.

And anyway, if we all just agreed with each other this entire forum would have like 4 posts a day.

Yes, I don't believe that it's "trolling" and therefore I don't know that ignoring such comments serves any purpose. It's not trolling if the poster is invested in what they are saying (and just as annoyed by the other side as they are by them). I think it's understandable to call posters 'trolls' when they are so emotionally committed to their 'team' that they don't even attempt to logically address opposing arguments but just say the same thing again. But that's not trolling if it isn't coldly disinterested and calculated, it's just bias.

Of course it comes back to what is the purpose of posting here at all, anyway? Whatever reasons I have, they mean I'll sometimes respond to things that seem irrational or clearly wrong to me and sometimes I won't.