Re: [OT} Meteorites (was Re: David: unplonked.)

Yowie wrote:
"Rod ¿" <nowdefunctmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dnW3j.3557$Dt4.2123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Speaking of which, why did you unplonk david ?

David is not, by my usual definition, a troll. A troll's intention is to simply to play havoc with whatever newsgroup they happen to be posting in. Some trolls are quite clever and subtle, but most get their thrills by posting inane and stupid things like "I eat cats for breakfast" in a cat lover's NG or "Jesus had a small penis" in a Christian group or simply flooding the group with so much nonsense it becomes impossible to read.

There are also two posters in SRQ that just post their posts about their own obsession, and fail to be particularly interested in any sort of response or reasonable discussion.

I have plonked the above two NG pests: trolls and mission posters.

Whilst David shows many of the above characteristics, I don't think he posts his obsessional posts to interrupt the group, and clearly he is quite interested in responses and discussion (even if not in usual way people would understand 'discussion'). When he's not talking about his pet subjects, he can actually have a decent conversation and seems like a genuine bloke.

I am not at all interested in anything to do with his pet subject(s) but I do value his other input (as small as it is compared to the stuff he posts about his pet subject(s). Unfortuantley, I don't have a sophisticated newsreader, and it seemed the only way to prevent me seeing the slew of posts (and indeed, responses to said posts) was to eliminate David and any threads he appeared in altogother. I explained my reasoning on group, apologised for only having a rather blunt instrument, and plonked him.

Another SRQ contacted me and showed me a way of eliminating most if not all posts related to David's pet subjects without just blindly deleting *everything* David writes. That way, I don't have to read David's slew of posts or the slew of responses he gets from readers in other NG's, but I can read the odd post of his that is not related to his pet subject, and he and I can converse normally if needs be. I find this solution much better than simply just ignoring every single thing David writes.

As to the other two people who are in my killfile from this group, occasionally I toodle over to Google Groups to see whether I should remove them from my killfile - and so far I have seen to reason to do so. They just post what they post with no particular interest in a response and no regard (it seems) to the fact that this is supposed to be a Quaker NG, and so I have not taken them out of the killfile yet. No doubt they have not noticed - and wouldn't be concerned if they had - that they are there. David, on the other hand, was hurt - and that certainly wasn't my intention when I put him in my killfile. This work around means I can see David when he posts on a subject other than his pet one(s), and means I am not ignoring *him* but rather ignoring particular subjects. Far less personal and reasonable, IMHO.

(Sorry for the long windedness, but I couldn't explain it as well in a shorter post)

You are kind of long winded, but long winded people make very good story tellers. As for David, I long ago tired of hearing the words
pesher and Thiering, so David is a permanent fixture in my bozo bin. He
will have plenty of other egg heads for companionship their, so loneliness is not a problem he will face, though I dare say they to may soon tire of pesher as well and riot, if they don't cut his tongue out first !




And now that I know you're a college boy preppie and not just a normal everyday joe,
give me a reason why I shouldn't plank you for decieving me ?

a) I'm not a college *boy*

Yes you are ! When I first appeared here I was looking for just plain
ordinary people to talk with, and what do I find ? I am in a group
populated with IQ's above 200 with college educations. Do you know
how scary it is to try and talk with someone who knows where you're
going with the conversation before you get the first sentence out ?

I'm married to an egg head. When she gets mad at me she refers to me
as "the carrot".





b) Plank me?

It was a typo. I meant to plonk you if you turned out to be an egg
head. You have shown a few signs of it so far, but I'm a very
patient guy.



The Carrot....
.

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