POPEYE
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Not being wise in the ways of ciberspace I looked up 'trolling' in wikipedia and now have a full understanding of what it means. I'm interested to read if
everyone is in agreeance with the the definition provided. After just returning from spending three days breathing in camfire smoke, drinking beer and Jack
until the early hours, eating esky loads of yabbies and terminating the lives of many feral pigs with a knife, it dawned on me that the men who shared all
this could have been accused of trolling.
If anyone in the group said a nice word about another sounds of laughter would have been heard all over the 30,000 acres. I mean, it's considered a sure sign that
if someone doesn't continually take the piss he doesn't like you. Amongst a group of men like this it's not uncommon for everyone at one time or another to gang up
on someone in an attempt to improve the camaraderie.
Somehow I think cyberspace trolling is not considered 'male bonding' and is really just reverting to beliittling someone when a person has lost the ability
to offer a reasonable alternative to an argument. As a result a place of discussion can end up in a slanging match that for a bystander means sorting out the
rubbish from the meaningful.
After about half a dozen posts here I was labelled by some tosser, who says he knows me but isn't willing to tell his real name from a place I might recognise, as
the 'new troll in the forum'. I can be be extremely derisive when sniped at so I have a somewhat overrated reputation. I can assure everyone that I am
an old man who just wants to interact with people in the same way they want to ineract and I would never begin a vindictive tirade on anyone such as this tosser
has initiated. I welcome people taking the piss as long as it's done in an amicable way. It is not necessary to revert to personal insults to press a point, especially if you are capable
of finishing some nastiness that goes against the grain for you to have started.
everyone is in agreeance with the the definition provided. After just returning from spending three days breathing in camfire smoke, drinking beer and Jack
until the early hours, eating esky loads of yabbies and terminating the lives of many feral pigs with a knife, it dawned on me that the men who shared all
this could have been accused of trolling.
If anyone in the group said a nice word about another sounds of laughter would have been heard all over the 30,000 acres. I mean, it's considered a sure sign that
if someone doesn't continually take the piss he doesn't like you. Amongst a group of men like this it's not uncommon for everyone at one time or another to gang up
on someone in an attempt to improve the camaraderie.
Somehow I think cyberspace trolling is not considered 'male bonding' and is really just reverting to beliittling someone when a person has lost the ability
to offer a reasonable alternative to an argument. As a result a place of discussion can end up in a slanging match that for a bystander means sorting out the
rubbish from the meaningful.
After about half a dozen posts here I was labelled by some tosser, who says he knows me but isn't willing to tell his real name from a place I might recognise, as
the 'new troll in the forum'. I can be be extremely derisive when sniped at so I have a somewhat overrated reputation. I can assure everyone that I am
an old man who just wants to interact with people in the same way they want to ineract and I would never begin a vindictive tirade on anyone such as this tosser
has initiated. I welcome people taking the piss as long as it's done in an amicable way. It is not necessary to revert to personal insults to press a point, especially if you are capable
of finishing some nastiness that goes against the grain for you to have started.
