Troll Baiting, an art forgotten

After watching the fiasco develop with EA Rules! and previously the Rodster, i thought i would just comment on our momentary lapse of common sense... IMO, RAS regulars and most visitors to our newsgroup, are sensible mature sim racers, so it makes me wonder at times why we lower ourselves to the trollee's level by replying to his/her posts. The best thing to do with these type of posts, is to IGNORE them. This news group has always been a valuable source of sim related information, both to the user and the developer, so why downgrade our supposed mentality by replying to trolls. ?? How long are the developers going to keep coming if they have to put up with that sort of rubbish. ? Let's try and show a bit of that maturity we are always talking about and just ignore them.. They will certainly move on to a better targeted newsgroup eventually. If you feel you just have to reply, then reply with a plonk and forget them.. Hopefully they will already be plonked. <G> Cheers, Ron

What's a plonk? Rob

You ever hear of a killfile? -- Header address intentionally scrambled to ward off the spamming hordes. cisko [AT] ix [DOT] netcom [DOT] com >What's a plonk? >Rob

I'm pretty new to this newsgroup stuff (1 week, maybe 2) What's a Troll? Anything like a Trollop? Av/Mikey

>I'm pretty new to this newsgroup stuff (1 week, maybe 2) >What's a Troll? Anything like a Trollop? A Troll is somebody living under a bridge ;-) Actually the term troll related to the Usenet is because of a fishing term "trolling" as to a technique to catch a fish, and modified itself to because what we know as a "troll", normally a AOLer or WebTVer who post on a newsgroup only to harm the community. But they live under bridges, still ;) -= Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard/Nas-Frank> -= NROS Nascar sanctioned Guide http://www.nros.com/ -= SimRacing Online http://www.simracing.com/ -= Official mentally retarded guy of r.a.s. -= May the Downforce be with you... "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

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Ron, what's this??? Reason? I almost thought that was out of style here.... :-) --Dave

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> After watching the fiasco develop with EA Rules! and previously the > Rodster, i thought i would just comment on our momentary lapse of > common sense... > IMO, RAS regulars and most visitors to our newsgroup, are sensible > mature sim racers, so it makes me wonder at times why we lower > ourselves to the trollee's level by replying to his/her posts. > The best thing to do with these type of posts, is to IGNORE them. > This news group has always been a valuable source of sim related > information, both to the user and the developer, so why downgrade our > supposed mentality by replying to trolls. ?? > How long are the developers going to keep coming if they have to put up > with that sort of rubbish. ? > Let's try and show a bit of that maturity we are always talking about > and just ignore them.. They will certainly move on to a better > targeted newsgroup eventually. > If you feel you just have to reply, then reply with a plonk and forget > them.. Hopefully they will already be plonked. <G> > Cheers, > Ron

-- Dave Schwabe The Aussie Toad -- Grand Prix Legends & Brabham site http://users.wi.net/~schwabe

Yeah Dave, after the last couple of days i am beginning to think your right.. I guess i was just mistaken, and i humbly apologise to one and all, for trying to keep some semblance of sanity & order here. <G> Cheers, Ron

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> Ron, what's this??? Reason? I almost thought that was out of style > here.... :-) > --Dave > > After watching the fiasco develop with EA Rules! and previously the > > Rodster, i thought i would just comment on our momentary lapse of > > common sense... > > IMO, RAS regulars and most visitors to our newsgroup, are sensible > > mature sim racers, so it makes me wonder at times why we lower > > ourselves to the trollee's level by replying to his/her posts. > > The best thing to do with these type of posts, is to IGNORE them. > > This news group has always been a valuable source of sim related > > information, both to the user and the developer, so why downgrade

our > > supposed mentality by replying to trolls. ?? > > How long are the developers going to keep coming if they have to put up > > with that sort of rubbish. ? > > Let's try and show a bit of that maturity we are always talking about > > and just ignore them.. They will certainly move on to a better > > targeted newsgroup eventually. > > If you feel you just have to reply, then reply with a plonk and forget

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> > them.. Hopefully they will already be plonked. <G> > > Cheers, > > Ron > -- > Dave Schwabe > The Aussie Toad -- Grand Prix Legends & Brabham site > http://users.wi.net/~schwabe