Linux What's that My own survey. 3409

On Monday 06 March 2006 01:25, Mathew P. stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...:

I'm always serious about what I do, and that includes GNU-Linux advocacy. Thusly, I take participating in this group seriously.

For now, I'm still stuck with very limited filter capabilities. C.O.L.A.has some 500+ new posts every 24 hours, of which half will be marked with a lower score by the filtering rules I currently have in place, and thus be blocked from my view.

However, if trollfeeding and incorrect posting style - void of all snipping - continue to exist, then it's no use that Ikillfileanyone, as their entire drivel will show up in multiple places across the thread anyway.

Of the 500+ or so posts every day, only two or three are really worth reading.

No, autistic person alert. I've stated my condition and the resulting effect of the autism-originating neuroses on my personality more than once.

But my comment still stands. This group should actually be renamed tocomp.os.windows.vistaor something. It would be far more appropriate.

What's enjoyable about arrogant trolls, Microsoft apologists and condescending spindoctors? Are you a masochist by any chance?

Going off-topic at times? This group is barely ever *on-topic...*

That's one aspect of it too, yes.

You must have a very strange sense of humor. What's the point in refuting a troll if the troll has as much support from co-trolls than a GNU-Linux advocate has from other GNU-Linux advocates?

Feeding trolls is showing them respect. Showing someone respect makes that person more self-buttured. Self-buttured trolls keep on coming back, because nobody's really doing anything about it.

Saying you enjoy it is like saying that when you were a kid, you enjoyed other kids being beaten up in the schoolyard, as long as the bullies were good at doing their damage.

Both which are hardly to be found ever here onC.O.L.A. As a simple example,DFS- just to name but one troll - has been establishes as a racist on multiple occasions and has even openly admitted to being a white supremacist.

He has also openly stated that he has no respect for the Netiquette. Yet, people still continue to feed him, andDFS: feels snugly at home here onC.O.L.A.

TheNetiquetterequires proper posting style. This means that quoting should be relevant and trimmed. How many here do that? At least that's one quality Erik Funkenbusch can't be denied of having; I have to hand it to him. When I want to read a post of his, I don't have to scroll down 100+ lines of totally irrelevant quoting to see what he has to say.

My reasons are valid, unfortunately. In addition, I don't believe proper advocacy has anything to gain from this newsgroup. Newbies don't come here for advice. It's just the same bunch of people arguing back and forth, and most of the time it's even aboutad-hominemarguments.

I want to advocate GNU-Linux and Free & Open Source. C.O.L.A.is just not the right place for it anymore. It's become a group where Microsoft fans and Microsoft haters jump at eachother's throat. Oh yes, and let's not forget the long threads of MacIntosh debating...

Like you said, it's only a newsgroup. Therefore, it should only consume my time for as much as it pleases me. And it doesn't please me anymore... :- As I have said before, I have more success advocating GNU-Linux and refuting trolls in other newsgroups.

Refuting and feeding are not the same thing, you know. The first one makes them go away. The second one makes them come back for more.

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)