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On Mar 18, 9:11=A0pm, Tony  wrote: > > Because they enjoy the attention and responses. =A0Because they enjoy > laughing at certain people. =A0Because they enjoy watching people bite. > Because they enjoy watching people talk about them. =A0Because they enjoy= it.

Sigh. What was that you were telling me about assuming malicious intent? Don't most people ultimately post to Usenet because they enjoy it? And tell me you've never laughed at any poster on here. Tell me you've never laughed at Chapman. Tell me Chapman doesn't practically beg to be laughed at at times. And tell me that there aren't many people who at least sometimes try to get a bite.

This thick black line that some people like to draw between "legitimate" posters and the dreaded "they" that you describe (aka "the trolls") simply doesn't exist. Like most things in life, it's not that black and white. At most, you can say that there is a continuum, and some people are more prone to winding people up than others. But pretty much everyone bar "N Ron Hubbard" posts useful contributions at least some of the time. No-one is perfect, and the point is that there isn't actually a "good" group of posters and a "bad" group with some huge, fundamental difference between them which means that the "good" group "should" be here and the "bad" group has no business posting.

Some URCM "moderators" and their supporters like to dismiss certain people as "trolls" because it gets them out of having to address the often valid opposing arguments that they present. I wouldn't want to see ostensibly "neutral" people like you supporting them in doing that.