A cautionary warning note for anti Amiga, AROS & MorphOS trolls

[LoadWB]

While reading through here I was just thinking about how much fun trolls can be, provided you do not feed the them, and just realize that these sad fecks have nothing better to do with their lives.

And then I saw a troll trolling and anti-troll thread.  Pretty neat stuff.

[LoadWB]

There's a difference between having a different opinion and being a dick about it.


The best analogy here is someone telling you "please don't piss in the pool" and the people being outraged: "we can't piss anywhere within 20 miles of the pool!"

And, frankly, the trolling IS completely off-topic in the first place.  All it does is serve to drive the thread into the ground, obfuscating the original content and intent.  Even more so when people take the bait.

If you have a burr up your butt that falls into the categories specified previously, blog about it or start your own anti-amiga.org and leave the rest of us alone.

And, as Cammy has demonstrated, it works both ways.  If obvious troll is obviously trolling, just let it ride.  Read the post with pity, and move along.

[LoadWB]

So basically if i criticise anything amiga-related i must be a troll?

Asked and answered.  The point is not that if you have anything anti-Amiga to say you cannot say it -- at least, that is my interpretation.  The point has been elegantly demonstrated already: there are a number of posters who not only do not have positive things to say about Amiga-related subjects, but flame the shyt out of threads with vitriolic negativity.  Constructive criticism is a good thing, IMHO, but not the constant "your an idiot for developing anything on a dead platform," and such ilk.  It really seems like some people have nothing better to do than to spew garbage into otherwise good threads.

Personally, I am not in favor of wielding the ban hammer against those who troll, nor mega-moderating their posts.  People have opinions and that is a Good Thing(tm).  I think the distinction is whether those opinions are relevant to the thread in terms of providing something constructive, whether in support or criticism of.  I feel the community can moderate itself to a large extent by simply ignoring asshole-ish posts which contribute nothing.

Either way, it seems Amiga.org could start heading the way of extinction.  Either by being overrun with trolls and feeders, or by being aggressively moderated to the point of uselessness as debate is quelled due to fear of reprisal.  Neither of these is a pleasant option.