[Vision2020] Equal Opportunity :-)

[No Weatherman]

Ms. Lund:

Thanks for posting the definition of a "troll" because until I read it
I never really knew the exact definition of the term.

First, neither you nor anyone else in this forum has established my
"intention of provoking other users into an emotional response or to
generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion."

Second, even if you could establish my motive, it's impossible for you
to define Vision 20-20s "normal on-topic discussion," unless it's
Palin bashing.

Your problems only begin with these two hurdles because if you read
the whole article, as I have done, you will see that the word cannot
apply to me:

"Trolling is a game about identity deception, albeit one that is
played without the consent of most of the players. The troll attempts
to pass as a legitimate participant, sharing the group's common
interests and concerns; the newsgroups members, if they are cognizant
of trolls and other identity deceptions, attempt to both distinguish
real from trolling postings, and upon judging a poster a troll, make
the offending poster leave the group."

This tighter definition completely undermines your case because I've
not played any "identity deception" game and this forum is completely
open, that is, no one can toss me.

Therefore, unless you can come up with something better, you're stuck
with me until election eve and you might as well engage me directly
instead of addressing me indirectly as you have consistently done.

I'll be nice to you if you be nice to me.

Btw, since you brought up child molesters, did you know that when
Obama was youth, a child molester named Frank Davis mentored him? I
think Obama even called him a "father figure."

On that note, I want to go wash my hands.


On 10/20/08, Saundra Lund <sslund_2007 at verizon.net> wrote:
> As those who have been around the Viz awhile know, I uniformly find trolls,
>  spammers, and those who want to protect child molesters from accountability
>  all to be "moral slime properly to be shunned by decent society."
>
>  For those who are unsure of what trolls are, check out:
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)
>  "An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts
>  controversial and irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community,
>  such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the intention of
>  provoking other users into an emotional response[1] or to generally disrupt
>  normal on-topic discussion.[2]"
>
>  Note that a troll is different from simply an anonymous poster who may have
>  genuine and "legitimate" reasons for writing anonymously.
>
>  Clearly, different V2020 participants have different strategies of how best
>  to deal with trolls, and probably even varying definitions of what a troll
>  is.  I'm comfortable with mine for me, and my strategy of not engaging with
>  them has served me well  :-)  To each her/his own.
>
>
>  Saundra Lund
>  Moscow, ID
>
>  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
>  nothing.
>  ~ Edmund Burke
>
>
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