From: Chad Perrin Date: 2007-09-28T01:47:52+09:00 Subject: Re: ID the troll using posting-account = ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 01:10:03AM +0900, Jeremy Henty wrote: > On 2007-09-27, Robert Dober wrote: > > On 9/27/07, Hannes Wyss wrote: > >> for what it's worth: "Profi" is used in German as an abbreviated form > >> for professional > > > > more important in this context it means somebody to be paid for what > > she is doing, so that might be an interesting job, right ;) > > OT *again*, but some people *are* paid to troll: global warming > denialists, the PR attack dog recently hired by academic publishers to > trash-talk open access journals etc. etc. I find that a little difficult to believe (re: "global warming denialists"). Such a statement mostly just sounds like a derivation of a great many ad hominem fallacies adding up to a conspiracy theory. Have you come across some evidence of such a phenomenon? Every single person I've come across who questions the "global warming consensus" actually has excellent credentials. Of course, I haven't really looked into the matter enough to have a comprehensive sense of people who disagree it's a settled matter, so there could very well be some astroturfers out there -- but I haven't seen any evidence of such. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John W. Russell: "People point. Sometimes that's just easier. They also use words. Sometimes that's just easier. For the same reasons that pointing has not made words obsolete, there will always be command lines."