Dear Fractelle,

Thanks for your kind comments and input.

Dear Antonios,

No one is suggesting censorship of this Forum.
It already comes with rules that must be
adhered to or the Forum Administrator will
take action.

I've just come across an interesting website
that may be of interest to you and other posters:

http://kayaker.nl/troll.html

"Trolls on Usenet and other Forums."

Definition of a troll:

"Trolls are people (or posts) that make use of a
discussion forum the same way public bathroom walls
are used by some for graffiti.

These posts are sometimes malicious and inflammatory,
racist, sexist, insulting - anything that can
disrupt a discussion thread..."

It seem that according to this site - the best thing
to do is not be baited into responding. Because that's
exactly what the "troll," wants. And the more you
respond the more aggresive their response to you is
going to become - until the discussion is completely
destroyed and dragged down into a slanging match - so
the given advice seems to be - ignore
the troll and carry on a decent discussion with other
posters - simply ignore the troll and continue the
discussion among yourselves.

Now why didn't we all think of that? Or as CJ would say,
"Don't feed the troll!"

Now, I finally get it!
Sorry Folks, I'm a bit naive at times. Or as another poster
put it, I've got, "pixy stardust in my eyes," (Loved that!),
which perhaps isn't as bad as all that.

I'd rather be naive, than a "troll!."

Its interesting how many hypocrites are really on this site. I just have scanned some of the post histories of some of you, and it seems the ugly troll syndrome is quite contagious and i refer you all to the thread THE BIG BANG, and it appears trolls have been here long before I arrived and Bugsy was the first one I encountered.
Oliver made a totally logical response and was attacked with no provocation and seems to have always been here at OLO.

"SO DONT GIVE ME ITS JUST TURN UP CRAP. i HAVE BEEN HERE SINCE 2007 AND TROLLS WERE WELL ASTABLISHED" long before most new people.
( another example of trolling above)

I wonder where they learnt this from?

Maybe the long term members might just want to have a good look at themselves before i yell hypocrite again.

Metaphorically speaking of course.

EVO

EVO2 sweetie, keep yer' loin cloth on!

Antonios: - (I hope its o.k. to use your first name?),

Thank you for your comment. You are one of the many posters on OLO whom I admire very much but please forgive me: I cannot quite understand your meaning in this instance? As I explained on another thread, I am wading through a period of total exhaustion lately which, no doubt, not only makes me difficult to understand, but also limits my own understanding.

Everyone:- one of the points I tried to make earlier was that perhaps sometimes what is seen as trolling is more a difference in understanding of what constitutes a debate or a discussion.

This was illustrated a couple of posts later when one poster, in response to one of the definitions given of trolling (“A troll is usually an expert in reusing the same words of its opponents and in turning it against them.”) replied with: "Isn’t that simply an essential debating skill?"

Ginxy! "Keep your loin cloth on". lol I only take it off went have to walk across water. But I do understand where foxy and the balanced minds of Romany and others are coming from, but if people want to point their self-righteous fingers at any-one, I suggest they hunt for the first troll.

EVO

In a democracy, rich and poor, educated or not, men or women, wolves or goats all are equal, all should have a say, should have a voice.
I understand that we do like some posts. Houuuu! most times I do not like my posts!
OK! THERE TROLLS WHO LIVE UNTER THE BFIDGES, may be I am one of them!
What to do with them? Do not you see that we lost an important part from the right side? Do not you see that our forum became poorer withough them?
Our goal should be how to extend, improve our base, to icrease the number of members and their partisepation, not to scare them with trolls and extra trolls.
For me the best troll hunder on the earth was POL POT he did not left any troll under the bridge!
Let's open our hearts to accept more people from different backgrounds and different attitudes, let's learn to forgive them.
WE ARE NOT WITCH HUNDERS
We should block the gates which could used to block new or different ideas.

Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide