Originally Posted by
ensco
It is kind of important to separate love or hate for posts, and not extend that to posters. Pretty much everyone here has said incredibly insightful things, and dumb things. Sometimes in the same post. There are 20 or 30 really informed posters here, and they all bring something to the table (frankly, a hell of a lot more, collectively, than we get from other media)
I have found I have never really held a grudge here, and nod at things appreciatively that someone is saying, where I thought the same person was being a bozo the day before.
I also kind of get confused about who exactly said what when. So I deliberately don’t pay a lot of attention to who exactly said what - but I do recognize posters, and read those who I know have some history of being smart on TFC. It's a cumulative thing.
I do think I see trolling sometimes. Not that often. I agree with efforts to call that out, it's just boring and disrupts the flow. I think sometimes the people doing it don’t realize they are doing it.