flacaltenn
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- #21
There must first be consensus as to what constitutes ‘trolling.’
Good-faith disagreement with the topic premise, submitting objective, documented evidence in support of the fact the thread premise is wrong, and correctly indicating that the thread premise fails as a fallacy is not ‘trolling.’
Well of course all that is NOT trolling. In fact, it's easy to define. It's disrespecting the topic entirely in preference to BAITING folks with personal and off-topic diversions. And usually, you don't "reel one in" in one post. It's a process.
So in Zone2 --- EVERY post has to contain topical content. In Zone3 --- we look for a continued pattern of ignoring the topic and getting trollish. Point is -- we currently have a very LOW bar for what constitutes "specific topical content".. All that "good stuff" that you pointed is NOT trolling.
Most posters "get this". That you can't be trolling if you're contributing to topic. But too many think trolling is just content THEY "don't like"...
One sure way to lower a troll infestation is to raise the bar for contributing to the convo. So I'm just polling to see if all these TFS (Troll Frustration Syndrome) posters would ABIDE by higher standards of "specific topic content" in THEIR posts.