Don't feed the troll

[Michael]

There's a new poster on our board that essentially is going into every thread and arguing.

The whole point of his posts is the argument and disruption. That is the agenda.

It doesn't matter that the people who argue with him win the arguments or that his logic is circular. He doesn't care about winning, he just cares about the attention and the disruption.

This type of troll is a little different than the typical troll that makes inflammatory statements and then enjoys the flame wars. Because the posts are semi-reasonable, it draws responses (it took me a while of reading other threads to see the pattern and I was responding until then). The end result is the same - no real discussion other than trying to refute his circular logic.

The best way to deal with a troll like that is to ignore him and to give a heads up to newer posters that don't realize what he is doing. If you must respond in some way, feed him a with no other text.

Eventually he will get bored and go away.

Michael

 

[Ryan]

IE: InfoHawk

 

[Bulk Beef]

You should google "logical fallacies".

 

[xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx]

Originally posted by: sward666
You should google "logical fallacies".

Nice I suspect someone is sitting for a "logic and argumentation" class in their 1st year of college.

 

[Infohawk]

Indeed sward666. He should research logical fallacies.

"There's a new poster on our board that essentially is going into every thread and arguing."
I believe that is one of the points of this forum. I can't see what is wrong with debating.

Moreover, I am not in every thread.

This will be my last post on this topic since it is not germane to news or politics.

I look forward to cogent discussions with you.

 

[Michael]

Infohawk -

Michael

 

[Bulk Beef]

<- logical phallus

Seriously Info, you need a new trick.

 

[DealMonkey]

Michael - I missed the part where you flash your badge.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Michael - I missed the part where you flash your badge.

While we don't have "Police" persay, I agree with Michael. As hard as it is sometimes, if you must "feed" the trolls something, give them only a :cookie|

 

[Michael]

Dealmonkey - You're free to ignore my advice. Just like I'm free to give advice (and you're free to comment on it).

Michael

 

[Klixxer]

Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Michael - I missed the part where you flash your badge.

Eh, i missed the part where you flashed yours?

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Michael - I missed the part where you flash your badge.

It's in his pants.

Only certain "special" people get to see it.

 

[drewshin]

What does this have to do with Politics and News?

Sorry, I haven't seen to many of InfoHawk's posts, but I think there are people here like JohnGalt that won that award first. Not that we dont all have our bad days...

 

[Perknose]

Infopigeon has his own distinctive passive-agressive style. Combine thatwith his rod-up-the-ass superiority complex, and you've got one annoying bird.

He got under my skin with his oblique but insistent support of Zillatroll's unbelievably inexcusable response to the combat death of Sgt. Maj. Michael B. Stack, who left behind a wife, Victoria Suzanne, three daugthers and three sons:

"well he died in vain in a mission that shouldnt have lead to his death, for me that means he is a loser. sorry."

glenn1 knew and served with him.

I have already petitioned the Mods for Zillababy's banning, but we all know what a crapshoot that can be.

So, Infopigeion, feh, his annoyance pales in comparison.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Perknose
Infopigeon has his own distinctive passive-agressive style.  Combine that with his rod-up-the-ass superiority complex, and you've got one annoying bird.

He got under my skin with his oblique but insistent support of Zillatroll's unbelievably inexcusable response to the combat death of Sgt. Maj. Michael B. Stack, who left behind a wife, Victoria Suzanne, three daugthers and three sons:

"well he died in vain in a mission that shouldnt have lead to his death, for me that means he is a loser. sorry."

glenn1 knew and served with him.

I have already petitioned the Mods for Zillababy's banning, but we all know what a crapshoot that can be.

So, Infopigeion, feh, his annoyance pales in comparison.

I hear you Perk, I normally don't condone having to contact Mods for anything but that was so dispicable of that Zilla character :|

At least a long vacation to think about it.

 

[rbV5]

I never learned much from people that agreed with me.

 

[Gravity]

Originally posted by: rbV5
I never learned much from people that agreed with me.

That sounds familiar.

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: Gravity

Originally posted by: rbV5

I never learned much from people that agreed with me.

That sounds familiar.

I had heard it somewhere and it stuck. Googleed up this:

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. ~Dudley Field Malone

 

[xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx]

Originally posted by: drewshin
What does this have to do with Politics and News?

Sorry, I haven't seen to many of InfoHawk's posts, but I think there are people here like JohnGalt that won that award first. Not that we dont all have our bad days...

Excuse me?

 

[Gaard]

degrees

 

[dahunan]

I believe everyone in the Politics section has behaved in a Trollish manner more than a few times.

 

[Zebo]

This is childish. I admit he went a little off the track with perknose with his church lady rutine by I've read a couple well thought out threads by him.Heres one . Maybe im wrong but it's too early to tell IMO and perhaps perk set him straight a bit

 

[Gaard]

Do our other resident trolls (and you know who you are) have a problem with him?

 

[Spencer278]

We really need an ignore button. If they had added that feautureI would then have to say the new fusetalk doesn't suck.

 

[MovingTarget]

Originally posted by: Gaard
degrees

yeah, there are varying degrees of trolls, and this guy isn't up too high from what we've seen in teh past. Anyone remember KAMAZON who plastered this forum w/ LaRouche quotes for about a month or two? He seemed worse. We can all troll every once in a while. Some just start out doing so more when they first join us and tone it down after a while for some truly thought provoking debates. Others just leave when they see we don't feed them anymore. Only time will tell.