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To: jveritas
The term troll is used far too liberally on FR lately. Its just like the Left calling a person a racist if he criticizes Obama.

The purpose is to limit intelligent debate.

440 posted on 12/26/2008 12:09:57 PM PST by CharacterCounts (1984 was supposed to be a work of fiction, not a how-to manual.)
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To: CharacterCounts
The term troll is used far too liberally on FR lately. Its just like the Left calling a person a racist if he criticizes Obama.

I agree- it is used far too much. A while back I witnessed an FR brawl that I was disgusted by. Some poster had the cyber snot beat out of them as a "troll". I read the poster's point, and would not have declared him or her a troll, I would have discussed/debated his/her points. It was one of the ugliest things I had witnessed. Usually, I would have weighed in, but I lacked the time to do so, and to uphold my position against the onslaught of FReepers thoroughly verbally and emotionally abusing the poster. It was just awful.

The purpose is to limit intelligent debate.

I think this also qualifies as the result of such behaviors.

465 posted on 12/27/2008 5:53:51 AM PST by Alia
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