Well Doug, most of those threads today were refreshes from our Troll Guest (TG) being cute and using a posting by Jeri to play his latest game. No big deal.....

Yes, the "Approved Internet Solution" to deal with trolls and flamers is to completely ignore them and not respond. The problem is that this is a very verbal bunch of folks here and most are pretty happy and addicted to Mudcat, so it's difficult to just shut up. We all know what to do, but getting everyone to do it is something else. Most of us are past the point where we feel the need the need to defend the 'Cat and we know what a fine place it is, but there is always some one of us who will jump in and off the thread goes.

But the 'Catters, although perhaps feeding the troll, have comeup over time with a different way too and that is jacking with them for our own amusement....Not the best idea to rid ourselves of them, but it takes on a lighter note and nobody really cares what the TG says.

When the TG started the Lepus Rex thread and posted all that stuff on multiple threads about Lepus, I wrote a note to a "Big Elf" that it was crap and how about killing it. Before he got the note the responses were way up on the thread and 'Catters were already treating it as a joke and having fun.....including Lepus and after seeing it, me too. The thread pretty well fell apart and it's more the wasted space than anything else. If you took a poll of every member who posted there, I think all would agree to eliminate the whole thing if Max wanted to do it.

I think the new filtering system will help on this a lot because every thread will be prefixed and filterable and the music only folks won't have to tolerate it at all. If it works that way, only the BS denizens will have the TG's to deal with and maybe we can come to the point where we don't respond or at least, as almost everyone does now, not take the situation seriously. Words hurt if you believe them and have some form of respect for the person saying them. No one has any respect for our TG's and there is no reason to take anything they say seriously.

Maybe we'll see some thoughts from members and well known Guests (like Russ) on this thread and it will help us to let everyone get together. Hope so.(:<))

Spaw