January 30, 2007

poor ol’ scoble…

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Les­son to be lear­ned from rea­ding these here Sco­blei­zer com­ments: When the shit hits the fan, don’t let anony­mous trolls HAVE ANY CONTROL WHATSOEVER over the con­ver­sa­tion.
They have nothing to lose, trying to tear you a new one. Nor will they stand accoun­ta­ble for their actions.
Without accoun­ta­ble iden­tity, you owe them nothing. So use that delete but­ton with impu­nity, I say.
Of course, why Robert tole­ra­tes them on his blog in the first place is a com­plete mys­tery to me…
My take on the whole Intel Sco­ble brouhaha? My guess is Robert did nothing wrong, at least, not on pur­pose. I know him well, he’s not that dumb or disho­nest. Sure, he’s not infa­lli­ble, so maybe he slips up on occa­sion, just like the rest of us. Wha­te­ver. I choose to give him the bene­fit of the doubt any­way, simply because I don’t know any­body in the “A-List” so com­ple­tely and relent­lessly dri­ven to do “The Right Thing” at all times.
Regard­less, the trolls are out, right on sche­dule, hun­ting for their break­fast. I’ve seen it too many times before. Pathe­tic.
Maybe if the trolls had more well-paid jobs they didn’t hate or god for­bid, good-looking women actually wan­ting to sleep with them, we’d see less of their kind. But I guess that’s unrea­lis­tic.
[gaping­void, Decem­ber 2004] “The Happy Troll”:

Basi­cally, the Happy Troll is hap­piest when he is “shit­ting in your living room” without you actually noti­cing. That’s the art of it. He does this by “adding healthy, help­ful dis­sent to the dis­cus­sion”- at least, that’s what he calls his little turd­pi­les. And he’s hoping that’s how you and your other rea­ders at first glance see them as– a rea­so­na­ble yet dis­sen­ting voice, good for the debate and democ­racy itself yak yak yak.

2 Responses to “poor ol’ scoble…”

  1. Thom Singer says:
    January 30, 2007 at 12:38 pm

    “Maybe if the trolls had more well-paid jobs they didn’t hate or god for­bid, good-looking women actually wan­ting to sleep with them, we’d see less of their kind. But I guess that’s unrea­lis­tic.”
    - — ah ha…I think you have sol­ved all the pro­blems with the world with this one sentence.

  2. Mike Abundo says:
    January 31, 2007 at 9:05 am

    Though my trolls flame anony­mously on my blog, I know by IP trace and wri­ting style exactly who they are. The Phi­lip­pi­nes is a small country.
    Last week, I cha­llen­ged them all to a fight to the death. None of them had the guts to show up.