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Originally Posted by HtheB View Post
https://youtu.be/3GwjfUFyY6M
While I like that Cool & The Gang classic "Celebrate" today (hated it, when it was released), the outcome of this (Sh. thrown out and all his messages eradicated @TMO) is nothing to celebrate IMO.

Too many people here have shown that they are unable to handle trolling, by continuously providing attention and feedback to the troll, which is primarily what drives a troll:
  • Replies to his postings
  • "Thanks!" votes

As I assume he is still around here (e.g. with his other TMO account) or other people with serious psychological distortions may show up,
  • conquering this thread with gossip again is still easily possible by the help of those "gossip multipliers".
  • nothing is structurally gained, as long as a couple of participants here cannot keep their fingers still (equivalent to "keep their mouths shut"), hence will happily act as a "gossip multiplier" at any time.

tl;dr: Trolling people do exist and hence will show up occasionally. The real bummer is, that a couple of those seemingly interested in a proper discussion were eagerly "feeding the troll" again and again, thus enabling, supporting and leveraging his efforts to suppress any other topic than the troll's own ones.
 

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