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Re: don't feed the trolls!
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Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:50:06 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond wrote:
> Hey, Aussies, come back to loc.au where you are appreciated for your deadpan
> humour and laidback attitude to family-friendliness. It's a sad sad world
> that can't appreciate our sense of humour and it appears that's most of
> Lugnet these days. Sigh!
Humour is a very serious business, CL Kerry. I have learned that some things are
far too serious to joke about.
> I think we need our very own ambassador to do some statistics
YES! It's been a long time, and lugnet has been sadly short of statistics!
(I did note a suggestion for the compilation of some statistics a while back,
but I ignored it. Sorry).
> on the
> proportion of Oz postings in non-Oz groups that elicit responses that:
> * fail to get the joke
> * take offence
> * fail to get the joke and take offence
> * accuse us of being trolls
> * fail to get the joke and accuse us of being trolls
> * attract irate responses from 'E who must not be named
> * fail to get the joke, take office, accuse us of being trolls and attract
> irate responses from 'E
> * etc
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> Then we can embark on an evidence-based policy-making campaign seeking to
> ban all non-Aussies from replying to any Oz posting in a non-Oz groups on
> the grounds that statistically they are about to make complete galahs of
> themselves.
Thanks for the suggestions! You are a real asset to the community, Kerry.
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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| (...) Are you keeping a mental list of them? I would suggest you take that Thought Leadership, and turn it into actual leadership with a page detailing the Things That Are Too Serious To Joke About, so that newcomers don't make the same mistakes we (...) (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| Hey, Aussies, come back to loc.au where you are appreciated for your deadpan humour and laidback attitude to family-friendliness. It's a sad sad world that can't appreciate our sense of humour and it appears that's most of Lugnet these days. Sigh! I (...) (18 years ago, 20-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au) !!
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