Re: Dealing with Vox Populi

pwagreic@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I'm pretty sure that if people just don't respond to him, he won't get
on our nerves so much. It fills me with disgust to see his threads with
more than 100 posts. It seems like a lot of people spend more time
spouting dribble with him than actually talking about pipes. Just some
of my humble thoughts.

Most of those replying to him seem to be coming from other newsgroups (not ASP regulars). One mark of trollhood is cross-posting, and VP cross-posts to all of the alt.smokers.* groups. If your newsreader supports filtering by threads or by multiple groups, you'd be well advised to kill any thread he starts. Your nerves won't suffer so much if you can't see his posts or the silly 'conversations' he wallows in.


Regards,

Tim Parker ... GH Burley & Bright in a no-name billiard
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