[tpaine]

JohnRob is rumored to have a personalized troll button awaiting in the wings. That offers one solution. Do you think it a worthy enough idea to pass along?
-Sulla-

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Great idea. All those who lack the guts for debate could just tune it out.

- I wonder, do they realize that it is they themselves who would end up being ignored?

[Avoiding_Sulla]

Great idea. </sarcasm> All those who lack the guts for debate could just tune it out.

Actually the troll button doesn't really tuned it all out. The user of such a button only gets SOME of the slime. It is second-hand slime, as those who are willing to wade thru the muck will post excerpts of it.

The point I was making was that it tends to get a bit overabundant (such as with sycophants encouraging primals with mindless bump after bump, or by slapping each other on the back with how good the last slimer's point was and how lame was the idea of their pidgeon).

It's called hijacking a thread. You've never seen it happen I suppose?
It can be done with shear volume (spam) or it can be done with the unsavory.

The troll button only gives a little respite so that a more serious or purposeful group can still communicate. Kinda like adults talking above the heads of the juveniles who are trying to get unwarranted attention or who don't like what the parents have planned for them. More effective too. :^)