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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 11:50:16 -0600
Subject: Re: Don't feed the troll...
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On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Antoon Pardon
<antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote:
>>> So what do you think would be a good approach towards people
>>> who are behaving in conflict with this wish of yours? Just
>>> bluntly call them worse than the troll or try to approach them
>>> in a way that is less likely to antangonize them?
>>
>>
>> Inform them that their behavior is damaging the list atmosphere, and
>> ask them to please knock it off.  Shaming the behavior works too, but
>> I'd prefer to go with the former.
>
>
> That is a bit odd. Rurpy seemed to consider it a big nono if others
> used methods that would coerce him to change his behaviour. But here
> you see shaming as an option which seems a coercive method.

Well, if it didn't work the first time, I wouldn't keep at it.  I
don't consider that coercive.