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Re: New Faction: The Bonktrons are coming.
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Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:12:50 GMT
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At the risk of being told I am quoting out of context, I will leave all of your
text here.
In lugnet.space, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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In lugnet.space, Nathan Proudlove wrote:
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I am loathe to even reply to this post as I am almost sure that Allister is
deliberately trying to stir up controversy. I will be the first to say that
it is in poor taste though. Way to go for exercising your right to free
speech.
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Still wondering what contest Rosco was referring to when I called Richie on
his previous trolling, starting to suspect a pattern, and wondering as to why
the frequency of these trolls and mocks seems to be increasing, I decided to
go look around for myself. I held my nose and did a little digging around on
JLUG. (it took about 5 clicks so it wasn’t too bad).
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“..held your nose...”
you sir, (up until recently) were an active member of JLUG.
you, YOURSELF have said things on JLUG that have explained what you felt was the
“spirit of JLUG.”
as seen here:
http://www.jlug.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=1117#1117
http://www.jlug.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=1100#1100
http://www.jlug.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=1095#1095
The entire thread is an interesting read:
but does not really add to this discussion.
http://www.jlug.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=130&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=mana&start=0
As well, even in your recent self imposed silence on JLUG, you STILL manage to
be on the top 10 posters list.
For others who have more time, this is a way to see ALL 400+ of lar’s JLUG
posts:
http://www.jlug.net/phpbb2/search.php?searchauthor=lar
My point:
You knew darn well, what you were getting involved with when you became (and
boasted) about being member #6
Hold your nose indeed.
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It seems there was a contest after all. It looks like you are saying that
Allister (as the author of <http://www.jlug.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=496
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this post> ) is trying to deliberately stir up controversy on LUGNET. That
is, the same guy that subsequently authored
this singularly unhelpful
post (mocking the very existence of the contest that he created) is perhaps
actually not acting here on LUGNET with the best of motives?
If that’s what you’re saying I would have to agree that it certainly does
have that appearance, doesn’t it?
One has to wonder if that mysterious contest is still actually (secretly??)
running or not (whether these “entries” are valid under the rules or not
seems irrelevant)... or if not, why there seems to be such an upswing in
mocking, pastiches, controversial posts cloaked in claimed “humor”, and so
forth.
Why is this a good thing for the community, or for LUGNET specifically?
Perhaps it isn’t. Perhaps the people engaging in this trolling and mocking
don’t actually have the best interests of LUGNET at heart, although it’s hard
to tell for sure since many of them apparently (based on their statements in
things like their LUGNET member pages) pride themselves on
ambiguity.
I don’t get it... maybe Allister and Richie haven’t been trolling, it’s hard
to say for sure, but in general the best thing to do with trolls, once it’s
clear what is going on, is ignore them.
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As you recently told me, why not just follow your own advice; and ignore this?
THIS VERY POST is “feeding the trolls” (to use your phrase)
Lar why not just stick to what you are really good at, MTW, and that Wiki. Now,
both your post, (and I’m sure this one) will just add even more mindless noise
to LUGNET as people take up sides.
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I expect this post of mine will be mock fodder too...
Whatever. Mock away.
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Whatever.
Chris
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