Sick troll

Sorry to react, but the situation is now ‘boiling frog’ like.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

Shall we continue to see bunch of messages with insults, all deleted with rage after two days?
IMHO, it begins to really pollute some threads and give a bad image of the forum in general.

Of course, some messages were really interesting. But since they were deleted, and since h0bby1/G0ST declared that he’s always erasing its posts after a few days, his place is – IMHO – not here. Here, it’s a forum, not IRC.

I don’t ask for censorship. h0bby1/G0ST is free to express itself… somewhere else.
Just my two cents.

Nota: this message will not be deleted in two days. Could be useful for future trolls :)

Normally I use private mail for this kind of request.
But sometimes it’s good for visitors to know that we have zero tolerance for trolls.
And it’s Aldershot :)

Seeing paranoia expressing itself like this is not funny. Whether he intends to annoy or not is beside the point. There is little others can do beyond curbing the automatic reflex to reply with contempt, sarcasm or denigration. Almost all his postings follow straight on from previous postings, without any pause for replies or dialogue. When nobody responds to his outpourings he appears to interpret the silence as an insult, rather than as an indication that others do not understand him. This blow to his pride leads to invective. The pressure to demonstrate his prowess makes him deaf to any protestations of good will. He appears to see himself as a victim, put upon by a cruel conspiracy of the rest of the world. Alas, he is indeed a victim, but of his own inability to communicate and to listen. Zero tolerance for trolls is probably a pragmatic policy, but I think we should all try to understand why such people behave the way they do, and at least we should avoid responding without compassion.

I know that these sentiments look like pious political correctness, but I do not like reacting to paranoia frivolously. I have very personal reasons to say this. Our society treats the disturbed abominably, with ignorance and cruelty. Let us go in a different direction.

When nobody responds to his outpourings he appears to interpret the silence as an insult, rather than as an indication that others do not understand him.

Or going to bed, or work. The latter is a habit I need to break.

In some respects it is rather like a visit to the building at the front of the site at work.

but the situation is now ‘boiling frog’ like.

I like that Wikipedia actually managed to find a picture captioned: A frog sitting on a saucepan handle

There is little others can do beyond curbing the automatic reflex

Just for the record, my lengthy reply was started prior to your post. ;-)

but I think we should all try to understand why such people behave the way they do, and at least we should avoid responding without compassion.

It is a nice thing to aspire to, but I think most normal people would throw their arms in the air and walk away soon enough. After all, there are only so many times one can be insulted until they decide that it just isn’t worth it.

Let us go in a different direction.

Another nice aspiration – but it can be impossible to help those who don’t want to help themselves. That sounds kind of crass. I lost a friend who didn’t want to listen and shortly after, his parents lost their son. I would love for there to be a simple solution. But there isn’t. And the stereotypical stigma… well, that helps nobody.

Here is an extremely interesting talk on a related matter. I’m glad she eventually found the right person to help. I wonder how many people never do.
http://www.ted.com/talks/eleanor_longden_the_voices_in_my_head?language=en

For what it is worth, I would prefer not to assign a “diagnosis” to a fellow forum member.

I would love for there to be a simple solution. But there isn’t.

I would prefer not to assign a “diagnosis” to a fellow forum member.

You are absolutely right on both counts.

Seeing paranoia expressing itself like this is not funny. Whether he intends to annoy or not is beside the point.

Both true. There is no real solution for this. Especially on Internet forum. I work for press.

Lots of people complain each week about the fact ‘we don’t know how to make our job, etc.‘. I always stay completely silent. It’s not polite or kind, but I never managed to find a better solution.

They want you to react. They are here for this and only for this. The only thing you can do is to push them out and stay silent. It’s like people that once in a car shout on other drivers. There is nothing to do.

Or to throw my arms in the air and walk away while shouting :)

I see the poltergeist is still active.

As I said elsewhere, I could simply stop. Perhaps we all should.
Unless there is proper content to respond to??

Perhaps we all should.

I just have. :-)

An hour ago when the post car came, I received “This girl is badass” on DVD (thankfully not region encoded as it is an US NTSC (yuck) import). I’m currently ripping it to XviD (not on RISC OS, I should add!) so I can watch it on my tablet (also not RISC OS!) tonight before I go to bed. It’s a lot less hassle than all the rubbish involved in setting up a real DVD player (which isn’t RISC OS either!).
The plot? There probably isn’t one. It is a Thai film about a girl beating up some bad guys with a bicycle. It sounded amusing and I could get it off Amazon for a couple of euros. It’s the same girl that was in Chocolate (with an ‘e’, not the film set in France), and if you ever saw that (FilmFour?) you’ll probably remember it as the “how the hell did they make it without killing most of the cast?” one. So I am expecting more of the same, only with bicycles. ;-)

Is “Goodbye” even understood?!? <facepalm>

Is “Goodbye” even understood?!?

I made a comparison earlier to residents of a building on the front of our site.
Some will talk animatedly for ages. Having no one I could see actually listening didn’t seem to make one iota of difference.

I wonder, if I’m a lying old fart do you fall into the young or middle aged lying fart group?
More importantly, should I have a ginger and lemon cookie or a salted fudge cookie?

More importantly…

Went with the stem ginger and lemon. You needed to know that :)

I think it depends upon how old you are as to whether I’m an old fart or a nearly old fart. ;-)

Ginger and lemon – good choice.

You know what I miss? You’ll think this is nuts. But, well, I miss battenburg (berg?) cake. Or pink-and-white as I called it when I was young.

I miss battenburg (berg?) cake.

Home cookery stuff, pink dyed sponge, yellow dyed sponge and almond paste wrapper.
Bound to be a Mary Berry recipe somewhere.

firtle,firtle..
Ah Mary does a variant for the “Bake Off” but the hairy bikers do a classic version

Mary does a variant for the “Bake Off”

Someone did a (credited) lift of Mary’s traditional version here

but the hairy bikers do a classic version.

The Hairy Bikers have recently started doing a 10am -12 Sunday slot on Planet Rock including a Sunday Roast Amnesty and the Nosh Pit.
You may like the music, but Si and Dave are usually quite entertaining whatever they are doing.

How do we know the troll is sick? Well his posts now say ‘aaaa’ as if he is waiting for a doctor to diagnose him.

The poltergeist has linked to a couple of text items elsewhere, the first has a mildly libelous summary of RISC OS (and people here). The second is a Pi disc image format examination.

Mixed.

Treading on dangerous ground there… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_defamation_law

Someone did a (credited) lift of Mary’s traditional version here

Brilliant! I love the two cakes one pan idea. Lots of photos. It looks like something I might be able to make without screwing up! ;-)

Treading on dangerous ground there…

Less so in item 3. Although it seems telling someone that another fork is closed source is “hiding it” from them. Strange, would he even have known it was a different fork if I hadn’t spelled out the history and the forking?

I love the two cakes one pan idea.

I thought that was pretty routine. Maybe I see too many food programmes.

Cookies aside, now sipping a beer.

Hum. He forget to put links to its forum.
http://psychic.vibe.free.fr/forum/viewforum.php?f=22

You can apply this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_reply

IMHO, this blog is not very harmful (only hobby clones and ghosts are present on it). But if you consider it can be, I can help for ‘right of reply’… and more. As a journalist I know – unfortunately – very well how it works :)

He forget to put links to its forum.

As the sys admin for the forum that’s most strange. Probably likes it quiet.
Anyone for plagiarised item on 3-d graphics split over multiple posts?

Damn, run out of beer in glass…
(Half full / half empty is incorrect thought, some beer vs. no beer is the correct view. Actions are much clearer)

IMHO, this blog is not very harmful (only hobby clones and ghosts are present on it).

I wonder if he ever disagrees with himself?