<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, 9:06 AM MB via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Before the Ad hominum & political rant list was formed I decided for my<br>
own peace of mind to block posts from John as he never seemed to stop,<br>
even after repeated requests. Unfortunately blocking didn't help much<br>
since many of his posts were quoted and responded to.<br>
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I know people in Real Life like that and I avoid seeing them as much as<br>
possible. The internet is full of that kind of thing. I do not understand<br>
why it seems impossible online for people to refrain from responding to<br>
trolls, and that was how I began to view John's posts. So tiresome.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yeah. :(</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I outright called him a troll. He challenged me on it. I realized I was no better than a troll by labelling others as such.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I wish the rest of us could have simply not reacted to the incessant noise - because the incessant reactions were just as annoying. However, "cancelling" him because he refused to yield has removed another intellect from this collective.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I miss many of those who were once frequent contributors. I wonder if this is a mode of any specific organization, or if the world in general is spread thin. I have gained wisdom through self-reflection at the cost of confidence in asserting an insight. The gestalt of ideas is difficult to put into words.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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