The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #152259   Message #3560809
Posted By: GUEST,Grishka
24-Sep-13 - 09:22 AM
Thread Name: BS: Obit - Below the Line???
Subject: RE: BS: Obit - Below the Line???
Normally I do not react to trolling at all. In the other thread I mentioned on 23 Sep 13 - 05:41 AM, I explained to another poster that the post he had replied to was actually to be understood as trolling. Criticism was not my primary concern, but is of course implied. Musket took issue, and wrote to his justification "At the end of the day, all Internet debate on this level is a form of onanism. If anyone takes it more seriously, more fool them. BS stands for wanking if you think about it." This implies that his own messages are to be taken as "onanism", which in the given context (- wild controversy, no recognizable joking -) is more or less synonymous to trolling.

Criticizing a particular behaviour is not an abuse or insult.

Simply stating one's honest opinion, however controversial, is not an act of trolling in itself.