On 28 Oct 2005 14:08:01 -0700, "aem" > wrote:

>
>Carol Damsel Peterson wrote:
>>
>> Know what I can't figure out? There have been two recent discussions
>> on Ramen and what to add to it. I don't recall those posters being
>> called trolls.
>>
>Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Doesn't it
>strike you as an odd coincidence that a never-before-seen poster asks a
>wide-open question like that while the hundreds of other posts on the
>same subject are still percolating? I still think it's a troll.
>
>> Sometimes, I feel so ashamed to be part of a community where someone
>> asks a serious question and gets nothing but jokes and accusations in
>> response. Same thing happened to the poster who was asking for chili
>> recipes. Why is everyone so uncaring?
>
>"Ashamed" and "uncaring" say to me that you attribute a bit too much
>reality and meaning to Usenet. In addition to those who address the
>group with the same sincerity you do, there are a bunch who are not
>real people. They are personas, created for the purpose of
>participating in the group in some fashion different from the
>straightforward, for personal gratification of some sort others cannot
>even guess at. That's part of the fun, don't you know? -aem


I'd rather take a chance on being nice to a troll.. than being a jerk
to a normal person asking a question..but then I'm not a natural
jackass as some..
Is having the "wool pulled over your eyes" by a troll that bad?

Chuck..