Re: We have a troll

Marshall Spight wrote:
> We have a troll.

And I've been had. I really hoped that the people who called him troll were wrong: just somebody who could make a point with a little more effort to come across clear.

Nice research and analysis, thank you.

> [Background reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll ]
>
> Last night I had nothing better to do and so spent some time searching
> for past activity from our newest member. The raw numbers are
> staggering:
> this is someone who posts hundreds of messages a month, totaling tens
> of thousands of posts on hundreds of newsgroups going back a decade.
> He has averaged over five posts a day for the last ten years.
> He most often appears in areas of maximum controversy:
> abortion, homosexuality, creationism.

And now database theory :-)

[snip]
> Some of you are still unsure whether he is a troll or not.

Until this excellent post, I was.

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