Re: Please don't feed the trolls
On 10/03/2021 13.47, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 16:57:52 -0600, Sam declaimed the > following: > >> On 3/8/21 3:35 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 8:31 AM D'Arcy Cain wrote: On 2021-03-06 4:24 p.m., Terry Reedy wrote: > Trolling, among other things, is fishing with a moving line, especially > with a revolving lure, as from a moving boat. A troll, among other > things, is that method or the lure used. You are confusing "troll" with "trawl" >>> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling_(fishing) >>> >>> ChrisA >> >> >> If you teach a man to fish > > ... he takes up residence under a bridge and becomes a troll... making it a > troll bridge So, if you teach him to surf-cast ... he becomes the Mayor of Casterbridge? An (old) book which includes: - unexplainable behavior/drunkenness - not being able to live-down one's past - the future not turning-out quite as hoped - banishment and self-banishment - and a protagonist whose Last Will and Testament read: "That Elizabeth-Jane Farfrae be not told of my death, or made to grieve on account of me. that I be not bury'd in consecrated ground. that no sexton be asked to toll the bell. that nobody is wished to see my dead body. that no murners walk behind me at my funeral. that no flours be planted on my grave, that no man remember me." RiP - and this thread also! -- -- Regards, =dn -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Please don't feed the trolls
On 3/8/21 3:35 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 8:31 AM D'Arcy Cain wrote: On 2021-03-06 4:24 p.m., Terry Reedy wrote: Trolling, among other things, is fishing with a moving line, especially with a revolving lure, as from a moving boat. A troll, among other things, is that method or the lure used. You are confusing "troll" with "trawl" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling_(fishing) ChrisA If you teach a man to fish -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Please don't feed the trolls
On 2021-03-08, D'Arcy Cain wrote: > On 2021-03-06 4:24 p.m., Terry Reedy wrote: >> Trolling, among other things, is fishing with a moving line, especially >> with a revolving lure, as from a moving boat. A troll, among other >> things, is that method or the lure used. > > You are confusing "troll" with "trawl" No, he's not. Trolling is dragging a lure through the water with a boat (usually a smallish one). https://www.minnkotamotors.com/learn/buying-guide/trolling-motors Trawling is dragging a net through the water with a boat (usually a rather large one). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_trawler -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Please don't feed the trolls
On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 8:31 AM D'Arcy Cain wrote: > > On 2021-03-06 4:24 p.m., Terry Reedy wrote: > > Trolling, among other things, is fishing with a moving line, especially > > with a revolving lure, as from a moving boat. A troll, among other > > things, is that method or the lure used. > > You are confusing "troll" with "trawl" > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling_(fishing) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Please don't feed the trolls
On 2021-03-06 4:24 p.m., Terry Reedy wrote: Trolling, among other things, is fishing with a moving line, especially with a revolving lure, as from a moving boat. A troll, among other things, is that method or the lure used. You are confusing "troll" with "trawl" -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain Vybe Networks Inc. A unit of Excelsior Solutions Corporation - Propelling Business Forward http://www.VybeNetworks.com/ IM:da...@vybenetworks.com VoIP: sip:da...@vybenetworks.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Please don't feed the trolls
Trolling, among other things, is fishing with a moving line, especially with a revolving lure, as from a moving boat. A troll, among other things, is that method or the lure used. On the internet, 'troll' is used metaphorically. A troll is a flashy post designed to catch peoples emotions and hook them into responding. Trolling is posting such posts. People do this either out of compulsion or for entertainment. Quite separately, a troll in Scandinavian folklore is an unpleasant mythical creature living in a cave, or perhaps under or around a bridge. Bridge trolls are reputed to disrupt communication by travel. Fishermen would not call a person trolling for fish a troll. It would be an insult. On the internet, we do call people trolling trolls, again methphorically, because they disrupt communication. The proper response to trolls is to not feed them by responding as they wish. When people respond, they continue trolling, and a moderator has to ban them. People reading python-list posts on google groups or comp.lang.python should not help them evade their bans by quoting them. On 3/6/2021 2:11 PM, Bonita Montero, responding to a banned troll for at least a third time: Someone who says that he is capable of writing a compiler that translates every language has megalomania. No one can do this. We certainly need not believe so until it is done. But we do not know whether X is an actual megalomaniac acting like a troll or an actual troll acting like a megalomaniac. The same can apply to any other character type that can lead to trolling or be assumed as a pose by a troll. In Spanish, bonito/a means a pretty male/female. By coincidence, it is also a tuna-like fish caught by trolling. (Decades ago, my father caught one on a boat one a Mexican river/lagoon.) Please unhook yourself and swim away. -- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
