Dick,
I think you are exactly right. Sometimes such a poster will even get more outrageous for a while trying to goad someone into a response. Eventually most will troll elsewhere.
There is a particular poster that seems to follow me around (and others I'm sure--I don't feel singled out) and counter almost anything I say. I no longer respond. If my experience in this market and with these tractors doesn't carry weight with a reader, neither will my posting the same thing five times.
I know that I personally tend to be blunt, and in text/posting sometimes come off as cold and uncaring. That would be because I am cold and uncaring. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif Seriously, it is probably because I am data driven. My other life is as a data administrator, and by nature I am blunt, to the point, and admittedly a bit acerbic at times. If I offend anyone here, all it takes is a polite PM and the odds are you'll get an apology
Anyway, I think you nailed it Dick. Leave them to die in isolation.
I think you are exactly right. Sometimes such a poster will even get more outrageous for a while trying to goad someone into a response. Eventually most will troll elsewhere.
There is a particular poster that seems to follow me around (and others I'm sure--I don't feel singled out) and counter almost anything I say. I no longer respond. If my experience in this market and with these tractors doesn't carry weight with a reader, neither will my posting the same thing five times.
I know that I personally tend to be blunt, and in text/posting sometimes come off as cold and uncaring. That would be because I am cold and uncaring. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif Seriously, it is probably because I am data driven. My other life is as a data administrator, and by nature I am blunt, to the point, and admittedly a bit acerbic at times. If I offend anyone here, all it takes is a polite PM and the odds are you'll get an apology
Anyway, I think you nailed it Dick. Leave them to die in isolation.