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MYSTERIES OF BLOGGING

· Monday, July 21, 2003 · 1 comment

Phillip Coons poses the question,

Why do people enable comments on their blogs if they label anyone who comments (with an opposing viewpoint) a troll???

Heh.

Personally, I reserve the term for people who post idiotic, inflammatory comments without any substance for the purpose of inciting flame wars. So far, I have been fortunate to have very few of these.

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Comments

  1. Misanthropyst says:
    Monday, 21 July 2003 at 10:58

    That’s the stoopidist thing I’ve ever seen you write. What are you, gay? Or just retarded?

    (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)

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