Re: Forged articles

Kenny McCormack wrote:
I mean, really, when you get right down to it, a "mental killfile"
serves all the same purposes as a real one would. And we certainly know
that almost no one (the list is now down to just 1 person, Eric, right?)
in this group uses a real killfile.

Yeah, and I recently added Jack Klein to the list of possible *real*
killfilers.

Chuck busted himself by replying to you, but I already knew his killfile
was empty from other observations.

I explained in another thread how Keith busted himself. To wit: There
were many threads where I'd be the only one addressing an ISO C question.
Just me and the OP. Where was Keith? Normally he answers all OPs. Clearly
he was seeing my replies and thought the question had already been
addressed adequately enough.

But over the years, I've come to be firmly convinced of the veracity
of the psychological observation that those who really killfile me
don't spend half their time on a newsgroup writing posts about me,
a la Richard Heathfield, Keith Thompson, Chuck Falconer. The same
obsession is what would prevent them from really killfiling in the
first place.

As Keighley says, "if you don't ignore him, you encourage him." Well,
if I were bent on disrupting this newsgroup, I'd be feeling a lot
of encouragement from the above three posters, that's for sure. They're
constitutionally unable to ignore me, which means they feed me.

To address another post you made about why this newsgroup gets trolled:
I also find it fascinating to ask why this newsgroup *keeps* getting
"trolled", even *after* the "trolls" have been identified. On other
newsgroups, once a troll has been identified, that troll is ignored
and quickly becomes bored. Why aren't the "trolls" getting bored on
this newsgroup? The only reasonable answer is that they're not being
ignored, that's why.

See, they're in a bit of a bind: They can't ignore us while we're
helping OPs who start so-called "off-topic" threads. They're forced
to address us somehow. If they completely ignored us, it would just
be us and the OPs having lively discussions about real-world C.

It's win-win for us, really. They don't ignore us, we get "fed",
and they help us "disrupt" this newsgroup by endlessly whining
about the "trolls"; they ignore us, we turn this newsgroup into
something positive.

Why would any "troll" leave a newsgroup while he's continually
the subject of discussion? It's way too ego-inflating!

Yours,
Han from China

--
"Only entropy comes easy." -- Anton Chekhov

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