On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 8:09 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Starting to feel like we're feeding a troll here . . >> >> Trolls are insulting people who insist there view is right. >> They call people names and rant without reasoning. > > > From Wikipedia: > > 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 or to > generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion. >
Since the threads have been allowed to continue by the Nannie and List Mom and have always drawn great participatory interest I do not believe my efforts meet that criteria. Nor is my purpose here now or ever has been to provoke hostile rants or to disrupt list concerns. I have been an LEM lister for nearly a decade and both the Nannies and Dan Knight know my writing well. My purpose is to stimulate thought and discuss an issue which while controversial will eventually effect all low end Mac users. We are in a struggle to make the Apple authored OS and our investment of time and money continue to serve us in the future as our old Macs rapidly are supplanted by newer technology. I come from a platform that fell to this obsolescence. I would rather not repeat that. I do believe this issue is relevant to the interests of users here. These speculative OS related threads always draw much interest here. If listers did not think them relevant this would not be the case. Normal on topic discussion? Well since I brought up the topic in the first place and other listers chose to join the thread of their free will I would say the topic is not only legitimate but that attempts at baiting others by posts not really in keeping with that general discussion may well fit the behavior that you describe. Why would some who join in late to a months long debate seek to challenge me to justify bringing up a topic of so much interest? Rather than that I would prefer to exchange ideas about an Apple stand-alone OS, x86 and other OS migration issues. Respectfully technophobic tom, I mean no one here any disrespect, and I hope their intentions are mutually constructively spirited. To think otherwise is to miscalculate Adrian. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
