Ignoring Trolls

That approach has been tried for months on end in this case..to no avail...if it were really only that simple..

I realize by ‘definition’ I am a troll, however, I take umbrage at the suggestion that I only exist ‘for the attention I can generate’. I exist for a variety of other reasons, including to compliment, comment on, or point out the ineptitude of the statements of others. It’s good, and bad, and everything in between, and while it may be annoying to some, it is not annoying to all, to each his own & all that implies. The blog at the Gibson Research Corp is certainly nonsense, thus not worth considering. It violates every facet of human nature. People are inherently confrontational, they (we) cannot help them(our)selves. People will always be separated into two camps, those who are amused by trolls, & those who pop a vein. Join those in the latter group & you’ll perhaps live longer, & if not longer, at least happier. Now, where did you put that damn money

I have to ask then, hypothetically of course, since you wish for "trolls" to be ignored.

If you came on this forum and needed advice with a cook, and as such had a considerable sum of money and time tied up in raw products and preparation, which would you prefer:

(a) an answer from a troll that most people with adequate experience know to be wrong, yet all ignore because the poster is using an anonymous handle or one associated with a "troll; or

(b) those with knowledge to the contrary to speak up and confront the "troll" spreading wrong information, thereby saving your cook, money, dinner, and/or reputation. This would require, in direct conflict to your advice, feeding the trolls.

My answer to this would be (c) No one is completely worthless, you can always serve as a bad example.

By ignoring the troll I think he means just that, ignoring the troll post. Don't respond directly to the troll. When you do that the troll has no one to respond to. That doesn't mean other replies should be ignored.

As regards the most recent blow-up, though, I think it needs to be pointed out that the supposely unknowing "troll" offered an opinion to the questioner that was, while being wrong in a minor detail, was entirely correct in its larger point: That something was going wrong with the Egg's temperature.

For this minor infraction, the "troll" was ruthlessly flamed and belittled and the original questioner followed the advice of the 7,000+ post flamer (one who styles himself as a dispenser of expert knowledge here) and wound up with a brisket as dry as a popcorn fart. So who's really the troll and who's really the helpful member, I ask you?

As I've said elsewhere, we'd do much better to look objectively at what individuals are actually doing and saying here, rather than to assume some are, by definition, contributing members and who are not.

quote,"For this minor infraction, the "troll" was ruthlessly flamed and belittled and the original questioner followed the advice of the 7,000+ post flamer (one who styles himself as a dispenser of expert knowledge here) and wound up with a brisket as dry as a popcorn fart. So who's really the troll and who's really the helpful member, I ask you? "

If you look back, someone mentioned the troll was wrong again. Then the troll flamed and belittled the "others" like he was a victim. The guy has been a distraction from the day he showed up here. He should take a hike and get lost in Utah.

Oops, did I just say that? :blink:

You've lost your damn mind if you think Tweev was correct in that thread. The vast majority of that post was him arguing that temperature in a brisket cannot drop during the plateau.

The crap you keep crediting him with being correct happened much later. Get your facts straight.

In my very first reply to DCegg yesterday I told him that the drop he observed was abnormal. I also told him more than once to check his thermometer and that he was cooking at a lower than normal pit temp.

Here's my suspicion. Tweev has never cooked a brisket on the egg. He based all of his responses on what he has read here and elsewhere and got so stymied by the illogical possibility of a temperature drop that he focused on that as his central argument. Don't give him any more credit that he's due. He was wrong in every statement he made yesterday. His focus was not on an incorrect thermometer or anything else, and by trying to extrapolate that meaning into his statements is quite a leap in my opinion.

I assume you're joking, but in the event you are not, may I suggest you go back & more closely read my posts as I believe you would then grasp the folly of your question

Little light come on Little Steven? :ermm:

You should smell the steaks resting next to me