On Sunday, January 13, 2013 11:23:16 AM UTC-5, Chuck Lysaght wrote:
> They're malcontents hiding behind a phony moniker or name. They believe there is a hierarchy on Usenet. I seem to spend too much time feeding the trolls.
This is from another thread but applies here and is worth repsoting, fot those who missed it:
The "problem and animosity" seems to be a widespread problem with anonymous trolls such as these trolls, hiding behind fake names and posting lies and smears against people.
Unfortunately for you, I fight back and correct their lies and misrepresentations about me... and label them for the trash they are.
Truth hurts, eh?
The fact is that I'm just a real person posting here, while anonymous trolls such as the one who post here create these threads apparently from some obsessed agenda they have to attempt to smear my name, libel, and otherwise misrepresent me.
And from further reading, it appears to be a sort of Topix.com phenomenon that some don't seem to be able to deal with as well as I have.
For example:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/us/small-town-gossip-moves-to-the-web-anonymous-and-vicious.html
"...a social media Web site called Topix, where they write and read startlingly negative posts, all cloaked in anonymity, about one another. And in Dee’s Place, people are not happy... called Topix a 'cesspool of character assassination.' [...] In rural America, older, poorer remote population lagged the rest of the country in embracing the Internet, the growing use of social media is raising familiar concerns about bullying and privacy... hubs of unsubstantiated gossip, stirring widespread resentment in communities where ties run deep, memories run long and anonymity is a novel concept. 'Something about rural culture seems to make people want to have conversations in public,' Topix, a site lightly trafficked in cities, enjoys a dedicated and growing following across the Ozarks, Appalachia and much of the rural South, establishing an unexpected niche in communities of a few hundred or few thousand people..."
And, of course, there's a difference between free speech and libel. The posts made here and elsewhere on Topix.com by the trolls you asked about generally tend to fall into the latter category.
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