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I think that it is impossible for someone to troll his own blog. I think that is is especially impossible to be a "troll" when someone else is posting entries

I think that it is impossible for someone to troll his own blog. I think that is is especially impossible to be a "troll" when someone else is posting entries from your own blog to a social news service. No, I don't think that qualifies.

jrockway 18y ago
I think that it is impossible for someone to troll his own blog. It's possible. Instead of a comment trolling on a site, a blog is trolling on the Internet (or blogosphere, if you like that word).
- mynameishere 18y ago
  The notion that posting content of whatever sort onto your own web property is somehow illegitimate, to me, seems like an unhealthy notion. Further, I think "troll" is name-calling, pure and simple. Just emotion. The highest rated comment here right now consists of this: "Vista is not good." ...to me, that's a pretty worthless comment--a grammatically, orthographically, socially correct version of "Vista Blow turdz". But it's no better in terms of elucidation.
  - axod 18y ago
    And the original article "Vista is good" was... ?
    - dhbradshaw 18y ago
      not a title with no supporting arguments.
  - jrockway 18y ago
    "Vista is not good" gets the point across. Nobody that reads this site likes Vista, so there's no point in writing a long post that preaches to the choir. The short, one sentence comment allows the reader's mind to fill in the details that he's undoubtedly heard again and again in other places. It's called "minimalism."
  - Hexstream 18y ago
    "The notion that posting content of whatever sort onto your own web property is somehow illegitimate, to me, seems like an unhealthy notion." Let's put that theory to the test: "The notion that posting [spam/outright lies/defamation/deliberately inacurrate and misleading information/gratuitous hate speech] onto your own web property is somehow illegitimate, to me, seems like an unhealthy notion."
    - mynameishere 18y ago
      What country are you from? Just curious--most Americans, even liberals, are not quite so willing to pose the bogeyman up against free speech and property rights.
      - Hexstream 18y ago
        Québec, Canada. If most Americans defend spam/outright lies/defamation/deliberately inacurrate and misleading information/gratuitous hate speech in a misguided attempt to protect free speech while simultaneously waiving all their rights whenever Bush utters the word "terrorists" then I pity them.
        mynameishere 18y ago
        Not defending it so much as pointing out that it is a bogeyman. Bringing up George Bush is a pretty sad straw man, so please skip it. I'm just glad to've had my hunch confirmed. I know Canada is all-too-willing to imprison people for speech violations, and I'm quite happy it hasn't come to that here yet. Of course, it will eventually.
        Hexstream 18y ago
        Contrast: "Bringing up George Bush is a pretty sad straw man, so please skip it." VS "I know Canada is all-too-willing to imprison people for speech violations, and I'm quite happy it hasn't come to that here yet." Doing exactly what you just scorned me for is definitely bad style. And you'll have to prove Canada imprisons people for "speech violations" a lot while the US doesn't.

jrockway 18y ago

I think that it is impossible for someone to troll his own blog. It's possible. Instead of a comment trolling on a site, a blog is trolling on the Internet (or blogosphere, if you like that word).

mynameishere 18y ago
The notion that posting content of whatever sort onto your own web property is somehow illegitimate, to me, seems like an unhealthy notion. Further, I think "troll" is name-calling, pure and simple. Just emotion. The highest rated comment here right now consists of this: "Vista is not good." ...to me, that's a pretty worthless comment--a grammatically, orthographically, socially correct version of "Vista Blow turdz". But it's no better in terms of elucidation.
- axod 18y ago
  And the original article "Vista is good" was... ?
  - dhbradshaw 18y ago
    not a title with no supporting arguments.
- jrockway 18y ago
  "Vista is not good" gets the point across. Nobody that reads this site likes Vista, so there's no point in writing a long post that preaches to the choir. The short, one sentence comment allows the reader's mind to fill in the details that he's undoubtedly heard again and again in other places. It's called "minimalism."
- Hexstream 18y ago
  "The notion that posting content of whatever sort onto your own web property is somehow illegitimate, to me, seems like an unhealthy notion." Let's put that theory to the test: "The notion that posting [spam/outright lies/defamation/deliberately inacurrate and misleading information/gratuitous hate speech] onto your own web property is somehow illegitimate, to me, seems like an unhealthy notion."
  - mynameishere 18y ago
    What country are you from? Just curious--most Americans, even liberals, are not quite so willing to pose the bogeyman up against free speech and property rights.
    - Hexstream 18y ago
      Québec, Canada. If most Americans defend spam/outright lies/defamation/deliberately inacurrate and misleading information/gratuitous hate speech in a misguided attempt to protect free speech while simultaneously waiving all their rights whenever Bush utters the word "terrorists" then I pity them.
      - mynameishere 18y ago
        Not defending it so much as pointing out that it is a bogeyman. Bringing up George Bush is a pretty sad straw man, so please skip it. I'm just glad to've had my hunch confirmed. I know Canada is all-too-willing to imprison people for speech violations, and I'm quite happy it hasn't come to that here yet. Of course, it will eventually.
        Hexstream 18y ago
        Contrast: "Bringing up George Bush is a pretty sad straw man, so please skip it." VS "I know Canada is all-too-willing to imprison people for speech violations, and I'm quite happy it hasn't come to that here yet." Doing exactly what you just scorned me for is definitely bad style. And you'll have to prove Canada imprisons people for "speech violations" a lot while the US doesn't.