Facebook troll

> If there is nothing wrong with me, maybe 
> there's something wrong with the universe.
> --ST:TNG, Dr. Beverly Crusher

> John-- 
> Well, that was certainly "helpful".            
> ---David
> I'm no help either, though.


I certainly set myself up for that rejoinder!~)
Jon

> 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 adstoo. I suspect trolls
> actually use more ads, thus "paying" for 
> the righto be jerks, but I certainly do
> not have the ad metrics to data mine in
> order to test that particular hypothesis.
> The lesson: more "privately hosted" 
> mailing lists, less Facebook. Please.
> --Max Battcher--
> http://worldmaker.net

Thanks Max, but the conversations on David's page are fascinating. However, the problem seems to be solved; I simply outed the troll, with his help.  The fellow made himself rather obvious with his profile picture of a troll like creature, a prenom from a certain movie character who quotes aphorisms about life and chocolate, and a surname from a theoretical particle with no mass.