From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com>
On 6/15/05, JAY JG <jayjg(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Perhaps we should alert Human Rights
Watch or Amnesty International.
This sort of disrespectful language reflects poorly on the project.
No, hysterical rhetoric about pictures of turds generating huge numbers of
unecessary e-mails to a list already inundated with these kinds of e-mails
reflects poorly on the project, and that needs to stop.
It's not acceptable to bait people with such jabs
just so you can yell
'look see' when the victim meets your incivility with more incivility.
That wasn't baiting, that was mocking; with any luck, it will stop futher
impassioned e-mails repeating the same thing ad nauseam. If it doesn't
work, I'll have to resort to mass deletion of unread e-mails, as I have had
to do so many times in the past.
If you really think the user in question is a troll and
therefor not
deserving of a basic level of respect then you need to take the only
action that has ever been effective in stopping trolls: Ignore them.
If I didn't think they were a complete troll I would indeed have ignored
them. Instead I tried to bring them to their senses, and to spare the
endless rounds of debate on a topic that's been thoroughly covered.
Jay.