On 6/18/2011 12:54 PM, Russ Nelson wrote:
Erik Johansson writes: > The Troll word is used so often around in this community that it's > hard to speak about courtesy. That's because SteveC uses it on people who don't agree with him.
Can you point to an example where I call someone a troll who was not characterized by the wikipedia definition? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)
It's a form of brow-beating. Other people follow his lead. Trolling is posting positions just to get a response, not to seek a resolution. In fact, trolls actively avoid resolution, because they would then have to find another topic to troll about. Perhaps, better than accusing people of trolling (which is arguably itself a method of trolling), is to ask people what problem they are trying to solve with their writing. So, Dermot, why do you keep claiming that people who accept the CT have "voted" for it? For my part, the problem I'm trying to solve is that I don't want anybody to think that just because I signed onto the relicensing process, that I am in favor of it. I would be happier if suddenly there was an earthquake, and the entire relicensing process disappeared into the ground, never to be seen again. And that is because I disagree with the problem statement of the relicensing. Ain't nobody going to benefit from taking a dead copy of the OSM data away from us. Data is the corpse of action. To misquote from "War Games": The only way to win the game is to play it.
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