On Dec 22, 1:51 pm, Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid> wrote: > On 2008-12-22, s...@pobox.com <s...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > ... shouldn't people who spend all their time trolling be > > doing something else: studying, working, writing patches which > > solve the problems they perceive to exist in the troll > > subject? > > I think you misunderstand the point of trolling. The author of > a troll post doesn't actually care about the "problems" (and > may not even genuinely perceive them as problems). > > > Is there some online troll game running where the players earn > > points for generating responses to their posts? > > Yup. It's called Usenet.
a.k.a. multi-player Emacs in deathmatch mode on nightmare difficulty. ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
