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Originally Posted by wolke View Post
perhaps folks misunderstand when someone says dont feed the trolls.
they dont mean, haha, you go get em. you tell that troll. they mean DONT FEED THE TROLLS.

put another way, if you think a post is off topic, meaningless, or is specifically non-constructive, regardless of who wrote it, JUST DONT RESPOND TO IT. this means that the empty post WONT get double attention. if you follow this simple rule, the world is better for everyone.

let me give you a specific example: PLEASE STOP TALKING TO LUMIAMAN ON THREADS NOT ABOUT WINDOWS PHONE.
his views may or may not be your own, and there is no problem with that. his views, however, are EVERYWHERE, they are always in the same vein, and they ALWAYS incite argument. go argue with him on a thread that is about what he's arguing about.

there are filters that let us ignore people who frequently post only empty vitriol. there are no filters that let us ignore you responding to them.
Well, I did not think the post was empty, meaningless, non-constructive, or especially off-topic. I thought it was irrelevant, not by its form, content, or topic, but by the reasoning behind it.

I do understand you might consider I fed the troll because you found that post deserved being ignored (and to be honest I agree with you that 99% of Lumiaman's posts deserve it are they are just nonsense or, at best, off-topic trolls), and I apologize for that, but here I think it was worth recalling that Jolla has not started sales yet, and hence that there's no point in using this kind of arguments to bring Nokia into the discussion. It took four lines of text to try to eliminate that possible troll entry, nothing to care much about, and I don't think my tone was so serious that reading my reply made people anxious. Not as much as this post actually, but I initially didn't want to justify.

Oh, and I posted a coloured animated picture, I'm sure it was the delight peak of the day for some TMO user, somewhere.

(Kidding, don't take that last sentence too seriously. We're in a long lasting thread that cannot survive only by the topic it was created for, i.e., #JollaLoveDay. We all have to accept that there might be some deviation here and there to keep the thread alive and, sooner or later, real pieces of information about Jolla (but still not about the #JollaLoveDay event).)

Last edited by Kabouik; 2013-10-29 at 17:04.
 

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