Admin announcement
As you may be aware we have had some concerns recently with people (person) posting under multiple nicknames, often simultaneously and sometimes expressing diammetrically opposed views. We are suspicious that none of you actually exist. Unfortunately it is difficult to isolate all of the relevant identities with certainty or prevent further mischief without running the risk of blocking innocent people. We believe that we know at least seven identities which have been used by the one person, with several others on our flag list as possibly related. The process of cross-matching identities is difficult and we don’t really want to do it.
We would much prefer it if the person who we have clearly informed we do not want to have around here would just bugger off and leave us alone.
If you notice troll-like behaviour which sounds like it may be one of our dearly departed friends (even expressing views from a different theological stand-point) could you please email us so that we can try to see whether this is related. Please note, however, that we experience plenty of troll-like behaviour from people who aren’t related to this incident, so it might be unrelated.
Thank you for your assistance and apologies for any inconvenience.
May 31st, 2006 at 1:28 pm
I exist. It says so on my driver’s license…
“BAH TO THE TROLLS!!”
June 1st, 2006 at 9:43 am
ok.. I’ll come clean. I am not Geoff Bullock, I think I once was, but, now, I’m somebody else…. I think… the reflection in the mirror sort of looks like me, but much older… can’t be me.. surely?
June 1st, 2006 at 9:45 am
No, I am spartacus!
June 1st, 2006 at 9:57 am
I was the 2nd gunman on the grassy knoll…Oh God that was good to get off my chest…I’ve been holding that in for quite some time now
June 1st, 2006 at 9:58 am
Spartacus… long time no see… we met on the Road to Rome after the big fight thing and you said to drop in for coffee… my chariot is in for a service next Sunday… how about the Gloria Jeans shop next to the Colliseum.. about 11.00 am?
June 1st, 2006 at 2:54 pm
duhhh, what constitues “troll-like?”
from a gay man’s point of view, that could mean anyone over the age of 60 who tries to put the moves on you.
I suppose from a Christian standpoint, it might be anyone resembling Lucifer or Satan, or a lessor demon or evil spirit.
In either case, all you need are a few spirit filled AOGers to cast out those evil, troll-like spirits from Signposts.
June 1st, 2006 at 3:42 pm
I found it, I found it!! This site gives the low down on internet Trolls…….everything you never wanted to know, but should. Here’s a snipit:
An Internet “troll” is a person who delights in sowing discord on the Internet. He (and it is usually he) tries to start arguments and upset people.
Trolls see Internet communications services as convenient venues for their bizarre game. For some reason, they don’t “get” that they are hurting real people. To them, other Internet users are not quite human but are a kind of digital abstraction. As a result, they feel no sorrow whatsoever for the pain they inflict. Indeed, the greater the suffering they cause, the greater their ‘achievement’ (as they see it). At the moment, the relative anonymity of the net allows trolls to flourish.
Trolls are utterly impervious to criticism (constructive or otherwise). You cannot negotiate with them; you cannot cause them to feel shame or compassion; you cannot reason with them. They cannot be made to feel remorse. For some reason, trolls do not feel they are bound by the rules of courtesy or social responsibility.
Perhaps this sounds inconceivable. You may think, “Surely there is something I can write that will change them.” But a true troll can not be changed by mere words.
http://members.aol.com/intwg/trolls.htm
June 1st, 2006 at 3:54 pm
“Trolls are utterly impervious to criticism (constructive or otherwise). You cannot negotiate with them; you cannot cause them to feel shame or compassion; you cannot reason with them. They cannot be made to feel remorse. For some reason, trolls do not feel they are bound by the rules of courtesy or social responsibility.”
I’m sorry but I really have to say that I’ve encountered a few in leadership circles over the years who fit this description.
June 1st, 2006 at 6:55 pm
I guess you don’t have to operate in hyperspace to be troll-like - and perhaps they are not much easier to recognize in real life, either. But I believe that your analogy holds - seems like some people just don’t get that not everybody else thinks of life as some game to be won!
June 1st, 2006 at 8:45 pm
But i like living under bridges!
June 1st, 2006 at 9:54 pm
I’m just an unsuspecting nanny goat.
June 1st, 2006 at 10:00 pm
live under bridges all you want, as long as you don’t mind being kicked over by my big brother in the end…:-)
June 1st, 2006 at 11:05 pm
Clop-Clop-Clop…
Who’s that trotting over my bridge…
June 2nd, 2006 at 3:01 am
You want it in Danish?:
Det er mig, den mindste Bukke Bruse, som skal til sæters for at æde mig fed.
Me, the smallest etc. etc. etc. - I’m just gonna have to trust you know the rest of it just as well
June 2nd, 2006 at 3:32 am
But just wait for my brother…
June 2nd, 2006 at 12:32 pm
hmm .. where are the sheep if all the people on signposts turn out to be goats?
June 2nd, 2006 at 1:02 pm
They’re all over at Phil Bakers enjoying censorship and tea
June 2nd, 2006 at 1:05 pm
someone should warn them about roast lamb dinners!
June 2nd, 2006 at 2:48 pm
it’s ok not to eat the lamb if you are katie holmes and your eating tom cruise instead
:laugh:
June 2nd, 2006 at 2:50 pm
June 2nd, 2006 at 2:51 pm
:winking:
:laughing:
June 2nd, 2006 at 2:52 pm
June 2nd, 2006 at 4:32 pm
Wow Greg - after the past few days on other threads, it seems weird to have what is possibly a very hetro-sex joke here!!
Nice work…
Winking, nudging and saying no more right along with you!
June 2nd, 2006 at 4:33 pm
as long as this isn’t a sign of emoticon-al repression!
June 2nd, 2006 at 4:38 pm
Well, I for one am doing my emoticon-pratice at home (wasntme)
If we just invite the sheep over here, we’ll teach them a lesson or two on how to deal with trolls!
June 2nd, 2006 at 4:39 pm
well, at least I thought I was… would have, had it worked - so much for trying to tease you, Greg
June 2nd, 2006 at 6:40 pm
I am not sure if spiritual discernment includes troll identification…
June 4th, 2006 at 10:54 am
Sheep go to heaven - goats go to hell . Lets all sing along .
June 4th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
Phil & Dan,
You know that we appreciate this blog -
but it is getting so bloody slow … is there anything that can be done to speed the loding of comments up…?
June 4th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
yep. I just need to install a wordpress add-on that I have found. I will try and do it soon.