[Vision2020] Tips for Trolls
Ed Jones
edjones at moscowmail.com
Sun Jul 10 08:18:32 PDT 2005
So much for the liberal view of an open and inclusive society. What a hypocrite.
Off to the reeducation camp for you, Citizen Opyr.
Ed Jones
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From: "joanopyr at earthlink.net" <joanopyr at earthlink.net>
To: "Vision2020 Moscow" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Subject: [Vision2020] Tips for Trolls
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 23:42:09 -0700
>
> Donald TooGood complains (from behind his mother's apron of
> anonymity) that that I talk down to people, that I'm cruel and
> nasty, and that I have no business (NO BUSINESS!) calling him
> names. He also claims that he's received an untold but deeply
> impressive number of private emails from Vision 2020 lurkers
> advising him that I kick kittens for fun, snub the poor, pour salt
> on slugs, and am just plain wicked, gawd-awful, and a great big
> meanie.
>
> Who cares?
>
> I've heard the "secret fanclub" argument before, Donaldo. It is
> the last refuge of the pathetic scoundrel. There are more than 700
> people on this list. If 10 of them have sent you private notes
> warning you that I'll rip off your head and yell down your neck,
> are they really telling you anything that you don't already know?
> I've been on this list for years, and there's always been a Donald
> TooGood, or someone just like him, just as there's always been a
> "New Man." Vision 2020 has always had at least one or more
> chickenshit provocateurs in residence. We slap them down, we
> ignore them, and sooner or later, they go away. Someone else will
> take Donald TooGood's place, but it doesn't really matter. We
> survived Edna Wilmington; we survived Faul Ottomaticks and Stimatta
> X, and we will survive you, Mr. TooGood. In comparison to Edna,
> Faul, and Stigmatta, you and New Man are really rather
> piddly-squat. You're going to have to ramp it up a bit if you want
> to really be B-A-D.
>
> Because it seems to upset you so much, I'll say this one final
> time: you are a troll. You don't want to participate in a
> community discussion. Unlike Pat Kraut -- with whom I almost never
> agree -- you're not willing to step up to the plate and identify
> yourself. You're not willing to raise your head above the parapet
> and take a public risk. Pat is willing to take that risk, and so
> she's a real part of this list; she contributes. You don't. You
> just make belligerant, anonymous observations and then sit back and
> watch the brown hit the fan. You are fat and sassy and perfectly
> safe. No one need fear you; but then, no one need heed you,
> either. 'Ere long, you'll get bored with us and go back to kicking
> cyber-booty on your X-Box.
>
> Mortal Kombat, anyone?
>
> Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
> www.auntie-establishment.com
>
>
>
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