tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post692739106956191353..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: Re-inventing the reinvention of the reinvention.....Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-58334377611688433962016-01-21T06:55:27.542-06:002016-01-21T06:55:27.542-06:00And cursing, right?And cursing, right?Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-76534407365528737912016-01-20T19:32:15.547-06:002016-01-20T19:32:15.547-06:00Bullshit. I invented trolling.Bullshit. I invented trolling.ntoddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01068160577299501895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-60726726300091726212016-01-20T12:24:46.677-06:002016-01-20T12:24:46.677-06:00Yeah, more than once I've probably been a &quo...Yeah, more than once I've probably been a "troll" when all I was doing was insisting on a standard of reasoning that seemed elementary to me. Like understanding an issue of law, for example, instead of championing trial by accusation and innuendo.<br /><br />Of course, I can be mulish and bull-headed and argumentative, but is that the same thing as arguing because I like the negative attention? And how carefully is that examined for purposes of a "scientific" study?<br /><br />Still, the conclusions are so simple and obvious you have to ask: "Really? You needed a clipboard to figure that out?"Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-28067112985482325642016-01-20T12:21:16.435-06:002016-01-20T12:21:16.435-06:00Let me guess, they "studied this" by ask...Let me guess, they "studied this" by asking people questions with no way to test if their answers are true. While that's a problem at the best of times, when you're proposing to study "internet trolls" that methodology is especially stupid. If trolls like to push your buttons and yank your chain, to start with, you've provided them with the best of forums for doing that by asking them to answer questions like those ones. <br /><br />Really? A job getting tortured with ice? <br /><br />And it's my experience that when someone uses the word "troll" in that context, it can mean a number of things, not least of which is "I don't like what you said but I don't have anything to answer it with." <br /><br />I'd originally thought that it meant someone who tried to disrupt discussion of the topic at hand but it is more often used for someone who disagrees with the common consensus at any particular site. <br /><br />The internet is like a test of how badly the educational system failed to produce a rational would-be intellectual class. It couldn't compete with TV, the internet with stuff like binge-watching will only make that worse. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.com