Double-A wrote:
Raving Loonie wrote:
Double-A wrote:
Raving Loonie wrote:
Double-A wrote:


Double-A,

It riles me that other people who are not AUK'ers razz, Tholen. ...
Worse yet; some of these individuals end up becoming part of the AUK
community and start harassing other Usenet posters.

The intolerence ends up growing and spreading ...

You can see the results, here and now for yourself in alt.astronomy

This habit of harrassing posters mindlessly; as is done to Tholen;
becomes acceptable behavior.

Obviously, one cannot criticize Tholen; or anyone for that fact; vis a
vis ... how they conduct themselves on Usenet ... and expect a positive
outcome.

All that one can hope for is to 'sensitize' people; to make them aware
of certain things.

Example: ... Calling Bruce an idiot may be appropriate. It may make
people, here in alt.astronomy feel good.

... it encouage 'Bruce' to be an even bigger idiot ? grin

And perhaps THAT is the partial purpose to all of this ...

... to deliberately 'troll' him.

I was certainly aware that I managed to get both Bruce and Deco to blow
their cool in the past. At least with regard to Bruce, and maybe Deco,
too ... I trolled him down to a new *low* in vulgarity.

Why? ... to what end ?

Only so that at the end of the day, ... they would become sensitized,
THEMSLEVES to their own foolishness.

To my own surprise, Art seems to have turned that corner. There is much
substance to the man that neither you nor I could see before. ...
Worthwhile, interesting substance.

Now if only we could get Bruce to be sincere ... and I leave it at
that

For that day will come when it comes. I can't engineer it. ... Nor can
I fake it. To do so would be disrespectful. Bruce is his own man. That,
I respect!

Getting somebody to loose their temper, helps, Double-A. ... It makes
them human. An angry person is a sincere person. An angry person also
listens.

RL