And to that extent, its not merely sufficient in my mind to say "Thats bad", It needs to be encouraging and corrective, to help find a path from the bad place to a better one, not merely ostracising the problem as one we can't deal with.
I've also been somewhat reserved in the use of vitriolic language, and somewhat down-played the scale of the behaviour, but I don't want to make an ass of myself in the act of pointing out the negative behaviour of others. )
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I fully agree, thats one reasonw hy I am not an awful person to anybody who genuinely tries to "fix" my problem.
However, I detect an obvious troll when I see one, and by now, it's quite obvious that all kmx intends to is to stir dissent.
Nobody who wants to "genuinely" help me in any way ignores what I tell them that their fix is not working. They take this seriously and try to understand.
Contrats to typical troll behaviour: they are not interetsed in helping or fixing things, all they want to achieve is dissent.
So the trolls firmly have you in their camp. Hopefully you wake up and see how you were deceived.
]]>The problem is not people who seem to be whiney retards, the problem is the whiney trolls that play you successfully.
What you basically ask for is to feed the trolls endlessly - they play you, you play the polite game, it never ends.
I don't care if others do that, but I won't. When an asshole like kmx comes along and obviously only wants to make trouble and waste time that could be used for more useful things (like helping *genuine* users), then I reserve the right to call them out.
And it works every time.
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