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Subject: Re: Old Games For The Win
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 02:30:16 -0500
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JAB wrote:
> On 29/03/2025 14:44, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>> Trolling in old Usenet was a real art. These days many people will
>> just burst into a forum (on Usenet or off), say somethign wildly
>> inappropriate, and call it a day. But the Trolls of Usenet often put
>> effort into their art, saying/just/ enough to make you think they
>> were seriously wishing a discussion while still managing to aggravate
>> nearly everyone in the newsgroup.
> 
> Very much so, trolling in general now is very much low grade and often 
> gets no more creative than, no that's your mum that is. The art of 
> trolling is to slowly reel people in and the don't realise it's happened 
> until to late.

"You're a troll and you're not trolling right?"

Pardon me but I reject the label 'troll'.  Trolling is only a final 
recourse when negotiation has failed.  It's basically a way to trash on 
a group that has been recalcitrant and selfish.

I enjoy conversation - does that make me a troll?  I've been called 
random before - does that make me a troll?  I talk about old games on an 
old games thread and crosspost to allow my mate to see some of the ones 
I like - does that make me a troll?  I crossposted to here and 
rec.food.cooking about carrying a P-90 into a special ed classroom two 
groups I can avoid if I have to and let it play out - that makes me a 
troll.

But I'm not doing that right now as we are having a conversation.

-- 
Wears a paper bag like ab oxygeb mask
till your mibd starts to gel
'Cause the ball in the can has a crazy beat
The funky dyin brain cell