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Article #517549Re: Little Homeless Clown / Will Dockery
From: zipperwade@gmail
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 09:18
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 09:18
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On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 11:55:07 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote: > Pendragon wrote in message > news:3f35dba0-4cbc-4482-8622-5b84aacf7233@googlegroups.com... > > > > Topix ... that's the site you basically shut down with your incessant > > trolling, n'est-ce pas? > > No, that site is doing well, but yes, the Moderator doesn't suffer fools and > trolls so well. > > As I wrote earlier: > > The typical anonymous, unregistered stalking and libel-posting troll is not > a new phenomenon on Topix Forums... the site has had repeated problems with > anonymous, unregistered "flame trolls", who stalk and post what can verge > into the territory of libel, for example: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/us/small-town-gossip-moves-to-the-web-anonymous-and-vicious.html > > "...a social media Web site called Topix, where they write and read > startlingly negative posts, all cloaked in anonymity, about one another. And > in Deeβs Place, people are not happy... called Topix a 'cesspool of > character assassination.' [...] In rural America, older, poorer remote > population lagged the rest of the country in embracing the Internet, the > growing use of social media is raising familiar concerns about bullying and > privacy... hubs of unsubstantiated gossip, stirring widespread resentment in > communities where ties run deep, memories run long and anonymity is a novel > concept. 'Something about rural culture seems to make people want to have > conversations in public,' Topix, a site lightly trafficked in cities, enjoys > a dedicated and growing following across the Ozarks, Appalachia and much of > the rural South, establishing an unexpected niche in communities of a few > hundred or few thousand people..." > > And, of course, there's a difference between free speech and libel. The > posts made here and elsewhere on Topix.com by the trolls you asked about > generally tend to fall into the latter category ... > > :) Now you KNOW you were the troll on Topix Will. Don't even try and take the high road there.
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