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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3223089, member: 27832&quot;]Bad analogy, IHMO.</p><p><br /></p><p>On a playground, a pest can generally bug <i>one</i> other kid at a time. That kid can choose to walk away.</p><p><br /></p><p>On a site like this, a pest can bug <i>everybody at once</i>. Okay, not <i>everybody</i>, but an arbitrarily large group of people.</p><p><br /></p><p>If <i>all</i> those people ignore him, everything will be fine. But if <i>any one</i> of those people engages the pest, he gets the attention he&#039;s looking for.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck getting an <i>entire</i> group of people to do the right thing from the get-go. Some of us have had a bad day, some of us have some growing up to do, some of us honestly try to be helpful -- but the upshot is, without occasional strong-arm help from the moderators, trolls <i>will</i> find what they&#039;re looking for here.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please don&#039;t think of us as kids on a playground, even if many of us act that way occasionally, and some of us act that way frequently. This isn&#039;t a playground, and the trolls aren&#039;t <i>kids</i> trying to push other <i>kids</i> around one at a time. (At least <i>most</i> of them aren&#039;t, probably, appearances aside.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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