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Re: Embrace the trolls

Rex Riepe — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:15:26 -0000

Todd, thanks for the reply. I think we can both agree that anyone who is purposefully trying to hurt others online, just for the sake of hurting others, shouldn't be given the time of day.

Unfortunately there's no CAPTCHA equivalent for intent (yet?) so we can't really know who's who. On the receiving end of criticism, mean tends to look meaner, and meaner looks like trolling.

Re: Embrace the trolls

Todd Defren — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:05:29 -0000

I think you missed my point, a li'l bit. I didn't suggest that we ignore crowdsourced wisdom, I suggested instead that we cannot let purposefully destructive and willfully thoughtless criticisms bog us down.

The unexamined life is not worth living. But neither is the life that's abdicated to the opinions (or rather, the fear of rejection) of others.

Re: Embrace the trolls

Itzhak770 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:22:38 -0000

BS"D

Occasionally a troll, besides being entertaining, does direct me to some useful information even if it is clearly commercial in nature.

There is someone on my Facebook list who calls himself a troll but whom I suspect is really a successful marketer or researcher or both.