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rinselberg JUN 07, 03:38 PM
I mean "trolling" in the context of the Internet or online messages boards, like Pennock's.

Let me put myself forward as an example.

I want to express myself in a way that I know is not going to line up with a number (maybe a considerable number) of the other Pennock's Off Topic participants ideas and preferences.

If I hold back because it could draw the "ire" of one or more of the other participants, what then? Do people like to come here and say "Oh good. I don't see any Topics that I don't like. There actually aren't (hardly) any new Topics or messages that I have not already seen, but that's better than seeing something I don't want to see."

Is that not the very definition of "Dulls-ville' or "boredom"..?

I use the check box system to categorize my new Topic. So I could (and often do) select "Politics." But I do not have the option of selecting from "Conservative political views" or "Progressive political views."

I cannot offer a better example of "trolling" than someone who almost magically appears after any "rinselberg", in Topic after Topic--even some that are not even political--and goes after "rinselberg" in a way that most of the people that I have known would describe as "low", "vulgar", "needlessly personal", "over the top insults", "not even remotely civilized" and "part of a scheme to impose a partisan or particular political or cultural agenda on the forum by trying to eliminate anyone who does not conform with that agenda."

The "someone" knows who he is. He would be doing himself and also this forum a "solid" by taking a voluntary 30-day Time Out to create a new way (for him) of Reacting and Debating.
MidEngineManiac JUN 07, 03:46 PM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:

I use the check box system to categorize my new Topic. So I could (and often do) select "Politics." But I do not have the option of selecting from "Conservative political views" or "Progressive political views."




That's because there is no such thing as progressive political views. Progressiveness and liberalism are a mental illness characterized by an extreme denial of reality.

You need to check "Medical"

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Tony Kania JUN 07, 03:49 PM

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Originally posted by MidEngineManiac:


That's because there is no such thing as progressive political views. Progressiveness and liberalism are a mental illness characterized by an extreme denial of reality.

You need to check "Medical"





This the the funniest shat that you ever said on this forum MEM!

"You need to check "Medical". Bwahahaha!


randye JUN 07, 03:56 PM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:

I mean "trolling" in the context of the Internet or online messages boards, like Pennock's.

Let me put myself forward as an example.




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ls3mach JUN 07, 04:02 PM

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Originally posted by williegoat:

I claim #401: Zounderkite!



We call them coyan around my parts.

This is a ridiculously silly thread. Obviously Cliff has no interest in moderation. Might get in the way of him being DJ Diddles.
randye JUN 07, 04:02 PM

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Originally posted by MidEngineManiac:


That's because there is no such thing as progressive political views. Progressiveness and liberalism are a mental illness characterized by an extreme denial of reality.

You need to check "Medical"




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ls3mach JUN 07, 04:03 PM

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Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]:


OMG... "bag of dicks... " hahs



rinselberg JUN 07, 04:06 PM
MEM has exercised some self-restraint. Not a lot of self-restraint, but I accept him as "tolerable" and "tractable". I appreciate him for adding something positive to the forum.

Not the other individual. There's been no self-restraint whatsoever. Were he to disappear from this forum, I would not perceive any downside to it, whatsoever.

Without self-restraint, there be no Civilization.


I can just about predict what's coming next. Same "effluent", different day.

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randye JUN 07, 04:16 PM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:

I can just about predict what's coming next.





No you can't.



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Originally posted by rinselberg:

I won't say that I am a (good) model of sanity.


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2.5 JUN 07, 05:04 PM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:

I mean "trolling" in the context of the Internet or online messages boards, like Pennock's.

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Me too... its the same.
Does it make sense?