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As you responded here with another extraneous comment I'll reply to your comment elsewhere in which you had the audacity to accuse someone else of being a troll but don't acknowledge that you are...
If you are going to call someone a troll and use it as a pejorative term then you should define what it is.
The term is subjective. Wikipedia describes it as a person who sows discord, or otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.
By that definition everyone on LFGSS is a troll to some extent (and I'm OK with that).
But, if there were a ranking of trolls then surely it would need to be based on the amount of discord or disruption caused. Some people cause severe disruption and are swiftly banned, others cause minor disruption and are tolerated.
At which point, if severity doesn't count because those people have been banned, are the highest ranking trolls those who do the minor stuff the most frequently such that it accrues?
We all may think we don't create discord, but every time there is an ill-researched/naive post saying some silly, already answered, obvious, or containing a dangerous suggestion/recommendation... discord is created as people spent time reading such stuff and then need to respond to point out the flaws so that others do not follow that bad advice.
Thus we get our disruption, the flow of reading and interacting is broken... and yes, your posts, edscoble, make you a troll.
But it's OK, because I think the term is overly broad, subjective and I don't ban people just because they are trolls (as I said, nearly all of us are so I find it hardly pejorative)... I only ban the most extreme of trolls - those who really cause severe disruption and discordancy.
If you wish to disagree, build an argument and convince me otherwise. It's hard to argue that you don't create discord and disruption though... you've been doing that for years.