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Re: richard [message #185838 is a reply to message #185835]

Mon, 12 May 2014 10:07

Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Denis McMahon wrote:

> On Sun, 11 May 2014 15:14:12 +0000, Doug Miller wrote:
>> bill <william(at)TechServSys(dot)com> wrote […]:
>>> Might we adopt a policy of benign neglect towards richard, i.e:
>>> rot reply to any of his posts?
>> At least not until he apologizes, in the newsgroup, to everyone he has
>> insulted and abused.
>
> I detect a slight flaw in this plan.
>
> richard's posts may then be answered by people whose knowledge and
> competence is as lacking as his, and other newbies reading the group
> might take those posts as being good answers to problems similar to the
> ones richard posts.

That cannot be prevented anyway, as you are demonstrating repeatedly. Logic
dictates that there will always be more people who are not knowledgable and
competent than people who are. However, not feeding the troll – *any*
troll – and ignoring lusers will keep the noise down. Correcting wrong
answers to their postings, and pointing out that some approaches are unwise,
is still possible. One must keep in mind that one does not need to save the
world alone.

PointedEars
--
> If you get a bunch of authors […] that state the same "best practices"
> in any programming language, then you can bet who is wrong or right...
Not with javascript. Nonsense propagates like wildfire in this field.
-- Richard Cornford, comp.lang.javascript, 2011-11-14

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		richard By: bill on Sun, 11 May 2014 11:30
		Re: richard By: Richard Damon on Sun, 11 May 2014 11:50
		Re: richard By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 11 May 2014 14:14
		Re: richard By: Doug Miller on Sun, 11 May 2014 12:16
		Re: richard By: Mr Oldies on Sun, 11 May 2014 14:11
		Re: richard By: Evan Platt on Mon, 12 May 2014 13:50
		Re: richard By: Doug Miller on Sun, 11 May 2014 15:14
		Re: richard By: Denis McMahon on Sun, 11 May 2014 16:06
		Re: richard By: Doug Miller on Sun, 11 May 2014 21:46
		Re: richard By: bill on Mon, 12 May 2014 11:19
		Re: richard By: Doug Miller on Mon, 12 May 2014 13:01
		Re: richard By: The Natural Philosoph on Mon, 12 May 2014 13:52
		Re: richard By: Doug Miller on Mon, 12 May 2014 18:15
		Re: richard By: Evan Platt on Mon, 12 May 2014 14:43
		Re: richard By: Doug Miller on Mon, 12 May 2014 18:17
		Re: richard By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 12 May 2014 10:07

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