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A Field Guide to Paddling Forum Deviants
(Mike McCrea) writes:
Sybils - Another often-harmless species, Sybils possess multiple
posting names, and occasionally multiple personalities. Their call has
been interpreted to mean, "I agree with me, I agree with me".
I don't think that these are a seperate species at all really,
they are usually a subset of trolls, either those that create
extra "personalities" who post in support of them, which are
usually called sock puppets, or morphing trolls, who change
their posting identity frequently to avoid killfiles.
Of course it could just be that I haven't come across any "Sybils"
yet.
So, what other variety of forum critters have I forgotten?
Well you forgot Pedants and netkops, who are the officious buggers
who will complain loudly and voicifereously about any post that they
see as off-topic (which is basically anything they disagree with)
both in the group and to the poster's ISP in an attempt to get them
disconnected.
Oh and Kooks, which is what I would classify timmy as, whose posts
disrupt the group not through any particular maliciousness, but
through their ****witted ideas and the lengths they go to defend them
to anyone who disagrees with him.
--
James jamesk[at]homeric[dot]co[dot]uk
"I think your making them mad." "Mm-hmm." "It's bigger than we are." "I know."
(Marcus Cole and Cmdr. Ivanova, B5 "Voices Of Authority")
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