8 Dec
2006
8 Dec
'06
7:13 p.m.
From: "Dave Dunfield" <dave06a at dunfield.com>
I've been having an esclating correspondance with a chap named
"Murray Balascak" (anyone know him?) -
The following might come as a suprise: There are trolls on the internet.
There are psychos on the internet. There are irrational, obsessive,
socially retarded, self-important fanatics on the net.
Sometimes, one of them finds you, and makes you the subject of their current
delusion. They're easy to identify, and it's best not to have "escalating
correspondence" with them.
I should probably just ignore it -
Bingo.
8 Dec
8 Dec
8:47 p.m.
In article <20061209001341.17205.qmail at seefried.com>,
"Ken Seefried" <ken at seefried.com> writes:
Sometimes, one of them finds you, and makes you the
subject of their current
delusion. They're easy to identify, and it's best not to have "escalating
correspondence" with them.
Sometimes one of them decides that because you won't escalate the
flamewar, they need to make a wikipedia page where they bash you
there.
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9 Dec
9 Dec
12:57 a.m.
Richard wrote:
Sometimes one of them decides that because you
won't escalate the
flamewar, they need to make a wikipedia page where they bash you
there.
And usually a Wikipedia admin puts said page on Request For Deletion status.
"Expand this page and make it useful before <date>, or it will be zapped!"
-
great way to deal with the hordes of junk :)
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4:23 p.m.
In article <457A5062.2030100 at philpem.me.uk>,
Philip Pemberton <classiccmp at philpem.me.uk> writes:
Richard wrote:
They did it by hiding it in a "criticisms" section of an existing
page, but if you read between the lines its just one guy ragging on me
with about 15% of the facts of any situation where he's bashing me.
If I attempt to correct it on Wikipedia, then that's just taking his
flame bait once again and turning a Wikipedia page into a "he said she
said" kind of discussion. But as I say, the person in question did
this only because I wouldn't take his flamebait on a discussion thread
anymore. To respond in wikipedia is just feeding his desire to piss
me off and nothing more.
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Sometimes one of them decides that because you
won't escalate the
flamewar, they need to make a wikipedia page where they bash you
there.
And usually a Wikipedia admin puts said page on Request For Deletion status. 
1:33 a.m.
Richard wrote:
"Ken Seefried" writes:
I was kinda thinking that Dave (or someone, or maybe a bunch of
someones) ought to go over to uncyclopedia.org and make up some stuff
about a certain 6502 eval board (and maybe some other stuff) that (a)
we can all laugh at and (b) will give Dave's whacko correspondent's
tinfoil headgear a pressure test when he runs across it.
-Frank McConnell
Sometimes, one of them finds you, and makes you
the subject of their current
delusion. They're easy to identify, and it's best not to have "escalating
correspondence" with them.
Sometimes one of them decides that because you won't escalate the
flamewar, they need to make a wikipedia page where they bash you
there. 
1:53 p.m.
On 8 Dec 2006 at 19:13, Ken Seefried wrote:
The following might come as a suprise: There are
trolls on the internet.
There are psychos on the internet. There are irrational, obsessive,
socially retarded, self-important fanatics on the net.
If you want to see REAL trolls, just check any of the newsfeeds (e.g.
Yahoo) and their accompanying discussion forums. Some of the stuff
posted is clearly intended to offend. Treat those posters in the
same manner that one might treat a 3 year old who notices that he
gets attention when he removes his pants in public.
Curiously, most trolls DO seem to be male.
--Chuck
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