Wed Oct 7 - Avoiding Code Smells by Walter Bright

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 11:50:34AM -0500, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On 11/5/18 7:19 AM, Codifies wrote:
> > I subscribed to this forum in the hope I'd get irregular updates on
> > useful and interesting things related to the D language.
> > 
> > This thread as far as I see it had degenerated into a somewhat
> > childish and unproductive waste of time, I wouldn't object to a
> > moderator locking this thread
> 
> There is a troll here posting as multiple different aliases, who has
> tried this before, and continually comes back to harp on the same
> issue. It's why I haven't participated, he doesn't need to have more
> encouragement.
> 
> Just give it time, he will give up and go back to being a lurker. It
> would be good if people just stop responding here.
[...]

Yeah, after a while I realized that he was not sincere about
contributing constructively, and I just stopped responding. It's simply
not worth the time and effort, and it only generates more noise anyway.
It's standard online forum advice, guys: don't feed the troll.


T

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