Jorge,
On Oct 25, 2013, at 10:54 PM, Jorge Amodio <jmamodio(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
wrote:
Feed the trolls and they will keep growing, ignore them and they will dry and
die
In this particular case, the troll in question doesn't need responses to be fed
-- he doesn't appear to care if anyone responds to his notes. In the past 20+
years he's been spewing oddly capitalized nonsense to various lists and
websites until he's been banned, ignoring him hasn't caused him to dry and/or
die.
In most social situations where an individual is being a bore, most folks I'm
aware of simply walk away. In the context of mailing lists, this usually
translates to just unsubscribing. I'll admit being unsure that sacrificing
potentially useful contributors just so a known disruptive individual can
continue posting irrelevant drivel is an appropriate course of action.
If you have a commons and one of the users of the commons is peeing all over
the grass so that the sheep won't eat, do you continue to allow that user entry
into the commons?
Regards,
-drc
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