Re: adman hunters: don't unite!

On May 9, 12:49 pm, nmp <addr...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
rokimoto wrote:

[..]

You don't have to be an adman hunter, he will eventually come to you.

I'm hearing echoes of Trotski: You may not be interested in war, but war
is certainly interested in you.

He was right, of course. So are you.

Just look at who was the first to respond to your post. How to respond
to such individuals is pretty much up to the person responding.
Ignoring them is only one solution.

The issue raised in the original post (if I understand correctly) is
whether we should really want to help the Madman screwing up perfectly
nice going threads. Like when someone starts a discussion about some
interesting bit of science, education, evolution. Then the Madman steps
in and in no time at all 9 out of 10 replies in that thread are about
*him* only. People who were perhaps interested in the original subject
step out at this point and the troll has scored another "victory".
Wrecked another conversation. With the eager participation and assistance
of his adversaries.

Well, I think that is just shy of the mark. Madds usually posts
something stupid, but related to the original post. The replies are
not really about him so much as about his ridiculous assertions. The
job of talk.origins is to deal with these stupid assertions so that
the sci.* groups can get on with the serious discussions. Any
discussion truly *about* [M]adman is quickly relegated to the bit
bucket in most cases.


If anyone feels they really must attack the Madman, as if it would change
his hopelessly rotten mind, it's perhaps best to do it only in the
threads that he will start himself. And he will start enough of those if
people would deny him their attention for just a few hours.

As always, it's not the smarmy-know-it-all who is the target of the
replies. It's the undecided lurker who may well have heard the same
argument from a know-nothing anti-science/anti-evolution type.

Chris

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