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Quote from: JorgeStolfi on March 03, 2015, 03:13:37 PM

[nice trolling]
Remeber this whenever you feel the urge to click "ignore".

Nice one.

Still, the ignore button is your friend, especially when the troll brigade is out in force. What matters really is how you define 'troll'... different opinion than my own: not a troll. Low content posts trying to get a rise out of people: troll, ignore becomes an option if you still want to use the forum for its intended purpose.

I second that, and for the story, even I don't agree with many people's posts here I don't have them on ignore. I do have on ignore though a LOOOONG list of multiple accounts of -a-one-and-single-user- here... LambYourMotherEtc... Grin

Careful. By grafzep's algorithm, you're now on his ignore list as well ^_^

Jorge's is academic's approach: no knowledge is useless. Ergo, by clicking ignore button, you are always losing.
This assumes that knowledge gaining is free. This assumption is correct only for a tenured academic which is insulated from economic reality.

For the rest of us economic approach would be better: a text worth reading if benefit of reading it overweights costs of the reading, that is if there is no better use for the time, spend on reading it. Nothing personal, just economics.

Indeed. Someone called him a time waster the other day - and that is his trolling method. He repeatedly asks stupid questions or easily googled ones just to get a response. He chimes in with the most banal level of 'academic' analysis to both be a part of the group and to feel superior to it at the same time.

He is the antithesis of the entrepreneurial spirit, using his unsackable position to rob the Brazilian tax payer and waste his time here wasting our time. Tenure as an academic principle to protect and encourage free thought without political interference was hard fought for, and it makes me sick that shallow pricks like him use it to actually get in the way of new ideas.

He's not funny and he's not clever. Give me NLC any day, at least he's honest to himself and us about what he's doing. Stolfi is a useless cancer and should have the blood supply from schmoes like oda cut off.