On Tuesday, 22 September 2015 17:44:55 UTC+1, Lawrence Watt-Evans wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 07:50:40 -0700 (PDT), Robert Carnegie
> <
rja.ca...@excite.com> wrote:
>
> >Terry cares how many points Terry has. Terry does not care
> >how many points anyone else has. Only the points that Terry
> >has are important.
> >
> >This is a good plan and I follow it in this way; I don't care
> >how many points Terry has. I just try not to be tricked into
> >helping to increase his total.
>
> See, I take it a step farther -- I don't care if I help increase his
> total.
>
> I don't especially want to, as it wastes my time, but when it happens,
> I don't mind. I kind of like Terry, so if something I do makes him
> feel good, that's fine with me.
>
> >(They each keep score in different ways, anyway.)
>
> I'm not sure Starmaker's keeping score at all; I don't know what his
> game is.
I think it's: One, get attention. Two, complain about
Albert Einstein, Leo Szilard, and other Jews. I'm not
inclined to perform the analysis, but I think number
two depends on and follows number one (and pretty much
cancels it).
Also it's crossposted. I haven't tracked whether the
range of groups varies, but it appears that quite often
there are people coming in who haven't seen it before.
I'm using Google Groups and I think I can't block
a thread or mark it "read" without showing it on
screen, but I can fairly quickly pass on from a
Starmaker thread, but here's the problem: I want
to ignore /him/ but I don't want to ignore some
of the people who reply to him. Some have good
points to make, but have chosen a bad place to
do it. And on the other hand, they're probably
in whatever is the latest group that Starmaker
has chosen to soil, and Google Groups is only
showing and posting in r.a.sf.w, so even
communicating with those people is difficult
or impossible - because of how SM does this.
So basically /my/ score - my enjoyment of r.a.sf.w -
is reduced by StarMaker's threads, and reduced
more when anyone other than StarMaker participates
in them.