On Forum Moderation

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue Oct 22 20:11:56 UTC 2019


On 10/22/2019 1:01 PM, Jonathan Marler wrote:
> How do you decide when someone is trolling and when someone is making valid 
> criticism?
Great question.

Trolling is when the criticism lacks any sort of actionable specifics. Even if 
it isn't intended as trolling by the writer, it has that effect. For example:

  Trolling: D is no good.

  Not Trolling: Bugzilla NNNN is blocking me. Does anyone have a workaround?


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