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Originally Posted by Cyberman tM
Interesting.
To me his post is something that makes we want to punch the author.
I don't even think it's the issue at hand that aggravates me, but rather the attitude.
I don't like it when people come down to me telling me how inferior I am and how they are all enlightened and superior.
Doesn't really matter if they're religious or atheists.
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Yes, the tone of the post gave the
impression that the poster was thrusting a point of view onto the debate. But in itself, like
Sparrow I didn't read anything there that was troll-like.
It takes more than one post before a pattern emerges, unless I am naive in thinking that sensible posters are not allowed to hold certain views in case they upset others.
Which leads to the question of how can we as a group have sensible conversation, or debates, without someone being accused of trolling.
To me a troll is someone who deliberately starts with a provocative statement and then accelerates that point of view through the debate - but is that not, also, what a convincing debater would do.
It's a fine line between the two, and unless the poster is a definite newbie, it is difficult to judge.