RE, on the other hand, has the tolerance for trolls that I do not, and there are going to be visitors to NBL that are more suited for the sitting down to a decent meal in the diner than being hooked up to a bag of disparium in hospice care. Let food be thy medicine. The forum will drive anyone with an ounce of positive thoughts away, and hopefully over to here.
Even my tolerance wears thin after a while. I get active whenever Guy cross posts one of my Blogs to defend my POV. I generally do not participate on any other threads, unless one of the Trolls brings up my name or continues an argument from one of my threads.
The
NBL Irreversibility thread was an Overflow thread from an earlier article of mine I put up in the Forum after Guy closed the Commentary on the Blog. Generally speaking, UF, Lidia, Grant, BS and AL are the main Trolls who drop in to keep the Negativity going.
We will get a
New Round when Guy drops on my
Emerging Markets article. Sometime next week I think as he runs around a 3 day Feature and the article is 2 or 3 down in the queue.
I stay with it because as Haniel notes, anybody who is not Obsessively Depressed who drops in over there will go looking for something at least marginally more upbeat.
I actually have hooked up over there with
BKPR, the Bee Keeper dude who is going to write some Bee Keeping stuff for SUN. Also another fellow Bugsy is trying to hook us up with
Terry Kok, who is trying to build a sustainable community in southern Indiana called
Fairie Hill.
So while the Trolls take Center Stage in the Commentariat, I am actually making worthwhile connections there as well by doiing Battle with the Terminally Depressed.
