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To: jveritas

It would be more productive if the subtle techniques that trolls use were listed. Like the trolls who subtly get the reply threads going off on a tangent. What other subtle techniques are used by trolls?


494 posted on 05/12/2009 9:40:42 PM PDT by WayneLusvardi (It's more complex than it might seem)
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To: WayneLusvardi
It would be more productive if the subtle techniques that trolls use were listed. Like the trolls who subtly get the reply threads going off on a tangent. What other subtle techniques are used by trolls?

"Well...sometimes I go to bed late at night. A couple of times...a couple of times I'd come out on the porch and I'd see Mr. Goodman here in the wee hours of the morning standing out in front of his house...looking up at the sky. That's right. Looking up at the sky as if... as if he were waiting for something...."

549 posted on 05/13/2009 6:24:07 AM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: WayneLusvardi

The problem is, if we posted the things that trolls do that set off our troll alarm, then they would learn to avoid them.

You don’t want to tip them off.

Sometimes, it’s nothing specific, just a sense of unease.


577 posted on 05/13/2009 9:49:41 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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