[WikiEN-l] Troll?

Sun Nov 14 07:41:44 UTC 2004

Charles Matthews wrote:

>Ray Saintonge wrote
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>>Of course bad faith trolling is not to be condoned, but the same can't
>>be said of good faith trolling when it succeeds in waking people up.
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>Ray, troll-folk are not slow to make this argument for themselves.  I hardly
>think this list needs its complacency undermined, or whatever you think
>you're doing with this special pleading.  It is wretched stuff.
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I agree that fisherman are competent at baiting their hooks.  I would 
never have taken the participants on this list to be complacent; if 
anything, they have a tendency for the other extreme.  We're full of 
Humpty Dumptys whose words mean exactly what they choose them to mean - 
neither more nor less.   I would not consider my consideration of a word 
to be so lofty as to require "special" pleading.  If a pleading it be, I 
would think it more properly directed to the pleasures of language, and 
to an appreciation of the subtleties that light a contrary meaning in a 
sky of darkness.  "Wretched," yes.  It is important to be charitable 
towa\rd those wallowing hippo wretches on the litoral of the litteral 
sea. :-)

Ec