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May 15th, 2007

Cory Doctorow on taming the trolls

Posted by Marc Orchant @ 3:03 pm

Categories: Blogs

Tags: Cory Doctorow, Troll, Marc Orchant

Great, great post on the InformationWeek blog by Boing Boing founder, author, and deep thinker Cory Doctorow on how to deal with trolls. It turns out that nuclear science is a great metaphor for managing community and the secret lies in "twiddling the rods" in just the right fashion. Just go read it… you won't be sorry.

 

H/T to Seth Godin for pointing this one out – it's a keeper. 

Marc Orchant has been building, testing, and sometimes breaking hardware and software for 25 years. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.

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http://www.myinternetisbroken.com/index.cfm/2007/8/3/ZDNet-disgusts-me-more-and-more-everyday... (Read the rest)
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Attracting the trolls  TonyMcS | 05/15/07
I don't agree with your defintiion  morchant | 05/15/07
Unfortunately the definition works on ZDNet  TonyMcS | 05/17/07
Thanks for that Tony  morchant | 05/17/07
Sad but true  Duke E. Love | 03/28/08
Five ways to defeat blog trolls and cyberstalkers , starting with the above  Intellihence | 05/15/07
I think the most common here on zdnet is  xuniL_z | 05/15/07
For what it's worth, zdnet seems to have an issue  xuniL_z | 05/15/07
Truth-digging does not constitute hate  zaine_ridling | 05/16/07
Some truth there, but...  John L. Ries | 05/16/07
Marc  D. T. Schmitz | 05/17/07

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