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mwoehlke mwoehlke@tibco.com
Thu Aug 10 23:01:00 GMT 2006


Dave Korn wrote:
> On 10 August 2006 20:53, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:13:26AM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> So what kind of response would you expect to my mail?  More "thin
>>>> intelligence", "foolish" responses?
>>> Are you asking if I thought your response was reasonable and
>>> non-inflammatory (yes; it helped /me/ step back and start thinking again
>>> :-)), or if I think infoterror is a troll? Or do I just not understand
>>> the question?
>> I was just wondering if we'd get more of the same.  Just an idle question.
> 
>   Must have been the recent mentions of meow[*] that brought him in.
> 
>   He's not really got with the program, though, has he?
> 
> "  Infoterror is the art of persuading others to see your point, online,
> without limiting yourself to polite discourse? Why? Most people do not
> understand debate or argument, so they make noise and pretend they're
> philosophers. How do you communicate? The answer: you troll them. Like any
> other propaganda, it becomes effective when people see it often enough and see
> its enemies without response. Make fools of the fools. Mock what is useless.
> And most of all: always present a working answer.  "
> 
>   I didn't see him present any "working answer".
> 
>   Actually, I didn't see him "persuading others to see his point" either.
> 
>   On the other hand, I did see him not understanding debate or argument, and
> pretending to be some kind of philosopher.  And he does appear to have fallen
> for the line that trolling is a successful strategy for communicating with
> people.
> 
>   So I give him 3 out of 10 for an unimaginative opening gambit, a lame
> pseudo-philosophical justification, pat armchair-psychiatric diagnoses, and
> really a total lack of anything new or innovative in his approach to trolling.
> And even /that/ is just because I'm feeling generous and benignly
> well-disposed to the world at large today  :-D

Unfortunately, it seems to be working. That, or he's using a second 
(non-Nabble) alias to talk to himself about how he is single-handedly 
going to "Fix Things" (which might qualify as 'presenting a working 
answer').

-- 
Matthew
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