Derek Broughton wrote: > Why is a legitimate question a troll? Sid & Dapper _are_ both routinely > "testy" (I prefer not to say "broken" - it's not as if it shouldn't be > expected). Asking which is less broken may be naive but there's no reason > to assume it's malicious. And asking of only _one_ of these groups would > be sure to get a biased response.
Because the best trolls are legitimate questions. For example, ahem...
meeeemeeeee memememeee...
Which is better, Emacs or vi?
It's a legitimate question but you know the hell that fires up whenever it
is mentioned. Imagine it crossposted between a vim mailing list, emacs list
and XEMacs mailing list (just for giggles). Sure, asking on any one list
would give a biased answer but asking on all at once where the biases clash is
a surefire way to start some serious crap; the very definition of a troll.
Ubuntu and Debian are like that in a way. Not saying either user base is
as staunchly set in their ways but there has been some friction between the
projects.
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