Диагноз: Postel’s Law: “Be conservative in what you do; be liberal in what you accept from others. Trolls embody the opposite principle. They are liberal in what they do and conservative in what they construe as acceptable behavior from others. You, the troll says, are not worthy of my understanding; I, therefore, will do everything I can to confound you.
И лечение: The willingness of trolling “victims” to be hurt by words, he argued, makes them complicit, and trolling will end as soon as we all get over it... trolling will stop only when its audience stops taking trolls seriously.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2008-08-03 08:04 am (UTC)Диагноз:
Postel’s Law: “Be conservative in what you do; be liberal in what you accept from others. Trolls embody the opposite principle. They are liberal in what they do and conservative in what they construe as acceptable behavior from others. You, the troll says, are not worthy of my understanding; I, therefore, will do everything I can to confound you.
И лечение:
The willingness of trolling “victims” to be hurt by words, he argued, makes them complicit, and trolling will end as soon as we all get over it... trolling will stop only when its audience stops taking trolls seriously.