Dear Michael, nettimers, Maybe we are forgetting about some of the net.history, and fail to recognise a specific net.phenomenon (that should be well-known to nettimers) - the Troll.
Seems we have one on the list and there's a well established set of measures how to deal with them - one of the classic manuals for net.moderators is here: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq/troll-faq/ Reminds me somewhat of the 'Netzvanonva' thing on nettime quite a few years back, just that this would be a 'wet.bot', rather than a 'net.bot'. Cheers, Eric On Mar 7, 2011, at 18:17, Michael Benson wrote: > This is a truly reprehensible post. Private Manning makes a decision clearly > based on the dictates of his conscience and as a result he's held in > conditions that shouldn't be used even when we're talking about a convicted > rapist or killer -- and John Young dismisses concern over his mental health > both because he has the bravery to stand up to his tormentors and on the > astonishing grounds that because he's gay, being forced into total nudity > must be a big turn on to him anyway. What's this kind of shit doing on > nettime, and who's doing the masturbating here? # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
