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To: paulat; Laptop_Ron
Don't let this poster get you down ... I believe that's his purpose.

It's a typical troll activity. Pull up a long ago registered FR name (usually one of many), and use it to have fun irritating Conservatives.

If you read back through this individual's posts on the tread, it is the typical troll pattern.

It starts out with "I like so and so, but ...", then goes through "I guess I don't have all the information I need, so could you folks enlighten me about ....", and finally to "I'm real sorry if I have offended anyone, it really wasn't my purpose, honest!"

If he isn't zapped by then, he will just go through the cycle again, only taking enough time out to report his efforts to his partners on some anti-FR forum.

Ignoring him, along with simply pointing out his trollish behavior to new thread readers who come onto the thread thinking he is playing for real, usually forces him out into the open, and causes him to go way over the line in his frustration, resulting in a loss of posting privileges.

147 posted on 08/21/2007 8:47:38 PM PDT by Col Freeper
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To: Col Freeper

Ummm, who’s the troll in this scenario?


148 posted on 08/21/2007 9:10:50 PM PDT by Laptop_Ron
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