Re: What a bunch of twats you are

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:10:25 GMT, Fevric J Glandules wrote:

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:25:21 +0200, John of Aix wrote:

Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:

A quick scan suggests that he has played little part in the tussle
with JF. This would suggest that he is not interested in the poster
that he claims is being "attacked, but in the attack itself... It's
the way that the group bond together to attack someone whose posts
stench of self-imposed superiority.

I followed the thread(s) from beginning to end but as I didn't see the
slightest need to criticise JF I didn't intervene.

Indeed, it was being taken care of by others, as you have noted.

I don't think there's much evidence of "group bonding". The miscreants
are a singularly diverse bunch: left-wing, right-wing, young, old,
unemployed, self-employed, PAYE, atheist, agnostic, believer, etc.:
about the only thing in common that I can discern is a certain
individualism, and a belief in one's own ability to make one's own
mind up about things. So if a large number of these individuals
simultaneously get pissed off with a poster, it's not because of
some hive mind at work - it's because the poster is being an arse.

It doesn't matter who it is - if someone refuses to budge from
an untenable position, they will get flamed all the way to alt.hell
and back.

Maybe I missed something in the past, but I can see no reason for
paying any more than passing attention to JF. I found the thread
which Mr. of Aix is, rightly to my mind, complaining about highly
amusing, and it wasn't Follett I was laughing at. How about not
feeding the troll?

--

Peter

I'm an alien
email: groups at asylum dot nildram dot co dot uk
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- Joseph Nebus
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