From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Aug 19 2002 - 15:33:54 MDT
--- Lee Corbin <lcorbin@tsoft.com> wrote:
> It seems that we are of two minds on the issue of trolling.
>
> On one side are those, such as Harvey, Louis, me, Natasha,
> and I think Dossy who denigrate any form of trolling,
> "experimenting", playing Devil's Advocate, and so on, and
> instead maintain that all posts (except the obviously fun-
> filled forays into jokes, or sarcasm) should be as completely
> honest and sincere as possible. Avoiding misunderstandings
> and even more importantly, avoiding *over-reacting*
> is difficult enough as it is.
But how do you know that other posters are being "honest and sincere"?
email lists are, by nature, relatively low trust media, as is *ANY*
media where verification is nigh impossible and the consequences of bad
behavior are pathetically miniscule if not non-existent.
>
> On the other sides appear to be those such as Brian, Mike Wiik,
> and Alex who probably (it seems) think that either everything
> is an experiment, more or less, or who advocate techniques of
> provocation.
"All art is propaganda", as some leftie once said. Similarly, all
debate is thought experiment, merely executed by committee.
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