OT the crosspost trolls
Dougie Farquhar-MacTurk
> As I have killfilled the troll threads now, can I clarify here.
> Helpful John and mogadon John and sweely are all trolls and possibly
> same person? (mogadon changes the accents on his name to avoid
> killfiles)
> They post long texts, crossposted to yorkshire hoping people will
> reply, sometimes they reply to themselves with "thank you".
>
> My thinking is that its worth posting "watch for crosspost" if I see
> one of these where that has not already been done.
>
> Is it best to post only here, or also the other groups excluding
> Yorkshire?
> or treat the whole thing as silly and ignore it?
S'truth, there are more Nettiquet Surveillance Police in all UK.LOCAL
groups than there are genuine posters. Well over 90%. That being the
case, and given the underlying personality pathology of the
"net-nanny", these groups and their contributors not only need but
richly deserve regular contributions from trolls, shills etc for their
mental and spiritual growth.
Look at it positively. Just for a moment. One has something real and
tangible to get one's teeth into. If one were so minded one could run
one's own cyber-space troll/witch hunt. One's first question can be
who is CC-McK? Is it the maggot, testicles, hate frog, fork runner,
seventh summari, knickers lady, the highlander, sandstone cow herder,
or some one unamed (!).....probable identities are limited only by the
number of users. In fact one could use this opportunity to cheerfully
persecute 90% of usenet users. In some groups it has already started.
One could even become Cyber-Space Witch & Troll Finder General.
Or, nominate the owner of the arse hole one is currently licking for
the post.
Now see you have a nice day.
Regards,
Your Good Buddy.