Comments on: Embrace the trolls http://blog.ivylees.com/embrace-the-trolls/ Ethics, bootstrapping and tech in public relations Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:22:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: Rex Riepe http://blog.ivylees.com/embrace-the-trolls/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Rex Riepe Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:15:26 +0000 http://blog.ivylees.com/?p=302#comment-62 Todd, thanks for the reply. I think we can both agree that anyone who is purposefully trying to hurt others online, just for the sake of hurting others, shouldn't be given the time of day.<br><br>Unfortunately there's no CAPTCHA equivalent for intent (yet?) so we can't really know who's who. On the receiving end of criticism, mean tends to look meaner, and meaner looks like trolling. Todd, thanks for the reply. I think we can both agree that anyone who is purposefully trying to hurt others online, just for the sake of hurting others, shouldn't be given the time of day.

Unfortunately there's no CAPTCHA equivalent for intent (yet?) so we can't really know who's who. On the receiving end of criticism, mean tends to look meaner, and meaner looks like trolling.

]]> By: Todd Defren http://blog.ivylees.com/embrace-the-trolls/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Todd Defren Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:05:29 +0000 http://blog.ivylees.com/?p=302#comment-60 I think you missed my point, a li'l bit. I didn't suggest that we ignore crowdsourced wisdom, I suggested instead that we cannot let purposefully destructive and willfully thoughtless criticisms bog us down. <br><br>The unexamined life is not worth living. But neither is the life that's abdicated to the opinions (or rather, the fear of rejection) of others. I think you missed my point, a li'l bit. I didn't suggest that we ignore crowdsourced wisdom, I suggested instead that we cannot let purposefully destructive and willfully thoughtless criticisms bog us down.

The unexamined life is not worth living. But neither is the life that's abdicated to the opinions (or rather, the fear of rejection) of others.

]]> By: Itzhak770 http://blog.ivylees.com/embrace-the-trolls/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Itzhak770 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:22:38 +0000 http://blog.ivylees.com/?p=302#comment-59 BS"D<br><br>Occasionally a troll, besides being entertaining, does direct me to some useful information even if it is clearly commercial in nature.<br><br>There is someone on my Facebook list who calls himself a troll but whom I suspect is really a successful marketer or researcher or both. BS”D

Occasionally a troll, besides being entertaining, does direct me to some useful information even if it is clearly commercial in nature.

There is someone on my Facebook list who calls himself a troll but whom I suspect is really a successful marketer or researcher or both.

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