Re: Trolls

Max Battcher <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.culture.sf.killerbs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9/7/2010 20:43, John Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:39 PM, David Hobby<hobbyd-EA9mSNTTxwr2fBVCVOL8/[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>> Well, that was certainly "helpful".
>>
>>                         ---David
>>
>> I'm no help either, though.
>
> We both helped increase list traffic, which has been quite low...

To be perfectly frank, I don't think anyone can be of much help on this 
matter with regard to Facebook. I think Facebook has made it perfectly 
clear that it is not in the business of enabling discussion. It's in the 
business of selling ads... Unfortunately, trolls use ads too. I suspect 
trolls actually use more ads, thus "paying" for the right to be jerks, 
but I certainly don't have the ad metrics to data mine in order to test 
that particular hypothesis.

The lesson: more "privately hosted" mailing lists, less Facebook. Please.

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