__/ [ Rafael ] on Sunday 11 February 2007 12:00 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> __/ [ Robert Parsonage ] on Sunday 11 February 2007 10:12 \__
>>> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:36:44 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> For the past two weeks (roughly), one troll has been going through
>>>> about 1000 of my messages in Google Groups. He rated all of them 1
>>>> out of 5. There's similar stuff going on in Digg.com.
>>> Stop moaning Roy. You put yourself in this position. Live with it.
>>> Just stick to Linux advocacy and ignore the attacks. I'm not the only
>>> Linux advocate who appreciates your news posts.
>>
>> I wasn't moaning at all. In fact, it's rather flattering to know that
>> people spend hours just trying to damage some meaningless numbers that are
>> bound to a stranger's profile. I just wanted to clarify this, just in case
>> people see my rates declining from 4/5 to 2/5 within a couple of weeks.
>> Over at Digg, people said to me things like "I don't understand why people
>> mod you dowm". In both cases, the ratings say nothing about who is voting,
>> so it's open for abuse.
>
> I have noticed in Digg how a Linvocate will post something noteworthy,
> very sound, well substantiated and receive in short order from others a
> good score.
>
> Then some time passes, an apparent team comes by and downgrades it to
> nothing. It just seems too coincidental.
Several of my friends at Digg have jumped ship. They said Digg got infected
with shills when it became infulential.
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