On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 09:04:31 -0400, Wolf K wrote:

Anyone can post whatever they want,
for whatever reasons. Thus, no matter how much you beg, whinge, curse,
attack, etc, you can't control the posters...

Ah, but I can.

This is a rare post from you, Wolf K., where you actually made sense.

Bear in mind there are two kinds of trolls:
1. Snit like - where - you're right - these trolls are immune to reason.
2. nospam like - where - these trolls still have a morsel of decency left.

If a troll is Snit-like, then nothing I do will shame them into stopping
their incessant worthless trolling - but - if they're nospam like - then
they still have a shred of decency left - which is what I appeal to.

It's a simple strategy. I use simple tactics.

In any case, I have long since stopped trying to figure out what you
want me to do.

It's interesting that you claim to be unable to figure out the patently
obvious since I'm completely transparent as to both the strategy of
confronting the trolls in threads I care about, and in the tactics of
calling them out for what they do.

It's a simple strategy - with simple tactics used to implement it.

Calling me a moron and a troll etc will certainly _not_
encourage me to invoke whatever "scraps of decency" I have left.

I'm 100% transparently obvious as to my risk:reward equation.

*What is the risk of alienating you versus the reward of alienating you?*

As I see it, the *less* you post to Q&A threads I care about, the more
useful those Q&A threads will be (to me, and to everyone on this ng).

You can *still* post all you want to your chit-chat threads, which seem to
amuse you, since I ignore your trolls in threads I don't care about.

It is a very simple equation.

This exchange is becoming exceedingly tedious.

When you finally realize that my goal is to proactively alienate you
worthless trolls from posting to the threads I care about, then you'll
finally understand my strategy and tactics.

Nothing I do is by accident. I don't want you worthless trolls posting to
threads I care about. It's really that simple. You can post all you want to
your chit-chat threads, so it shouldn't be too much of a strain on your
Usenet amusement model.