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[Opinions] I agree (m)
From this post alone, it's not immediately obvious that the poster is a troll, and to jump on anyone who dared to respond to the post in the manner that you did only drew more attention to it. I understand that it's best not to encourage a troll, and that the best way to do that is through ignorance, but to assume the authority to enforce that ignorance is rather presumptuous - even if you were once a mod.
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*sigh*No, I'm not being presumptuous. Mike has always encouraged long-term posters to run interference for him and help with making the rules clear.What I did has been done countless times by myself and others. And I think it's appalling bad manners to respond to a troll after someone has identified them as a troll and given the directive to ignore them.It's not hard to then go and read up and see that the poster IS a troll.
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No, I think it was presumptuous of you to take it to the level that you did. Handing out individualized "Did you see the bit where I said to ignore the troll?"'s? - how condescending. I think that one "ignore the troll" post is sufficient, and if you're not even responding to an obviously trollish post, it would make sense to point out why you're labelling the poster as a troll instead of making everyone else do the detective work.
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I agree. I, for one, do know you used to be a mod, Chrisell. However, I do not think you should be so condescending towards other posters. You obviously are having a bad day though, considering your condescending responses to Rachel's lounge post. I was simply hoping to point this out to you.
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