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

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

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the_leander, I think you have misinterpreted something in the Natami thread, I never lied about anything at all. I was removed from the Natami team without any explanation, and although Gunnar provided an IRC log which he claims was the basis for my removal, Forcie has told me on IRC that he doesn't know exactly who removed me or why. I admit I should have handled it with a little more tact considering how blown out of proportion the reactions in that thread were, but if you'll look back through my entire history of posts on this and other Amiga forums you'll see that one post where I got a little too personal is the exception among what I think has been mostly positive or constructive conversation over the years. I don't see any point in lying.

And I don't know where you got the idea I was offering moral guidance, my post in this thread was an attempt to stop the fighting by explaining in my own terms what I think would be considered trolling and what's not.

If you have a problem with me personally, how about we deal with it on IRC? I don't think you'll succeed in turning my friends against me by persisting the way you are here.

This sounds like trolling to me.

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Troll: I have no use for this (because I don't use an Amiga-like system at all), so why are you bothering to make it?

Another-Troll: Pfft, I can do that on my iPhone.

Have I got this right?

So if somebody asks you why you are doing something that makes them a troll?

If somebody points out that they can use their iPhone to do the job instead, then that makes them a troll?

What a load of excrement.  This digital extremism is quite shocking.

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Well, seeing as my attempts to lighten the mood have failed so badly, I might as well. The moment moderation policy is mentioned, it seems as if the sky is falling.

I may be misreading the situation, but I can't really see anything in the original post that isn't already covered in the site rules. I've always maintained that trolls - as distinct from people that are just highly opinionated - are a waste of space anyway, but thankfully we don't have much in the way of working examples.

The danger is that people's interpretations of trolling are vastly different.

Providing an opinion should not be looked at as trolling, even if the person's opinion is wrong.

Disagreeing does not a troll make.

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Locking threads isn't a very 'Amiga.org' thing to do. Does seem to be happening these days though...