At 01:10 PM 12/18/2012, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <<mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.com>a...@lomaxdesign.com> wrote:
This particular post trolled Jed. It was highly sarcastic and
in-your-face. It worked, and Jojo has shown great skill as a troll.
For the record, I did not notice this. I trash his messages. It
didn't "work" on me.
Actually, Jed, it did. I also trash his messages (they go into a
quarantine folder which I don't routinely read).
However, you responded in the thread he started, not to him,
directly, but to others responding to him. He then has an excuse to
claim that the "rabid AGW propagandists in this forum." are
dominating the forum and that he therefore has the right of reply. He
can take almost any comment from you related in some way to AGW -- or
any other Favorite Topic -- as "rabid."
I think that was a interesting thread.
It could be. It was certainly popular, i.e., as I mentioned, I
counted 53 posts this morning in the thread he started. Ten were from
you. That's just a fact, I'm not saying it's wrong or improper, just
that this is what happened.
The problem is not Jojo's opinion on AGW. It's how every discussion
becomes a personal attack, either literally against a participant, or
of a group that someone might belong to -- a religious or ethnic or
political group. And his positions are impervious to evidence, so
that any actual discussion that arises goes nowhere but into stronger
and stronger personal attacks. Yes, some might be considered to be
aimed at him. But that's what trolls do. They set this up.
Yes, you trash his messages. But some don't, and they respond to
them, and then you respond to those messages.
There is nothing wrong, per se, with discussing almost any topic
here, to a degree. However, there has always been attention paid to
*how* topics are discussed.
