A History of Black Print

Re:A History of Black Print by dang on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:41AM (#29766187)

Please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN. That's just as bad as starting them, and is explicitly against the site guidelines.

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:A History of Black Print by rq1 on Sunday January 02, 2022 @08:25AM (#29768510)

Sorry there, that was so obvious but I was so upset at the same time. I should have flagged it and walked away.

Not sure if they are pure trolls though. You can sometimes hear the same discourse IRL. I can’t stand them.

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Re:A History of Black Print by dang on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:57PM (#29771396)

I agree, the word troll isn't that helpful here. But I think it deserves to survive in the phrase 'don't feed the trolls' since that is the wisest thing the internet ever said. It would be interesting to know the origin, actually—I wonder if anyone has traced it.

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Re:A History of Black Print by jcolman on Monday January 03, 2022 @02:16PM (#29785004)

FWIW, I asked about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29778358

There’s a link in the comments to this 2005 verion of the net.abuse FAQ, which references “Do not feed the trolls”: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq/troll-faq/ reply

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