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Interesting article on MSN.
http://tech.msn.com/products/articlepcw ... 166&page=1

#5. Trolls in forums
Aggravation factor: 58 percent

The Internet can be a spacious platform for all sorts of community interaction, provided that the participants conduct themselves in a civil manner. Too often, though, they don't.

"I hate when I am on a forum and people just post random comments about how much somebody is a jerk or how their religion saves," said PC World reader Roberta Dikeman of Dublin, California. "Can we please stay on topic--or post that drivel on your own sites!"

Hiding behind the pseudonymity of a Web alias, trolls disrupt useful discussions with ludicrous rants, inane threadjackings, personal insults, and abusive language, deliberately baiting forum regulars into pointless controversy and disharmony.

Trolls lurk everywhere--in Google and Yahoo newsgroups, in blog comment areas, and on specialty message boards created to offer technical help to users.

The free and fruitful exchange of ideas on the Web suffers when Web community owners have to moderate discussions and keep a tight rein on membership. But such actions are among the few effective ways to maintain civility and sanity in online forums. Another approach is for users to police the community themselves by collectively ignoring or dismissing malicious interlopers.

That was a good link.

Numbers 5 and 6 are RPITA's

Perrydise wrote:That was a good link.

Numbers 5 and 6 are RPITA's

#11. Undecipherable acronyms.

Rick wrote:

Perrydise wrote:Numbers 5 and 6 are RPITA's

#11. Undecipherable acronyms.

LOL -- I'm going to take a stab and assume it means "Real pains in the arse".

Sites like Ticketmaster have managed to transform one of the Internet's biggest conveniences--the ability to buy and print out event tickets in a few mouse clicks--into one of its biggest rip-offs. Never mind that automated ticketing companies have dispensed with much of the traditional overhead (staff, rent, equipment) associated with selling tickets at a physical location. Never mind that they don't have to print the tickets you buy or ship them to your home.

Ticketmaster.com, the world's largest ticketing agent, adds a $9 "convenience charge" to the price of every $32.50 ticket for a concert in San Francisco, for example, plus a $4.90 "processing fee" on top of every order. So if you buy one ticket, you pay 42 percent of the face value of the ticket in fees to Ticketmaster! In contrast, assuming that the show isn't sold out, you can buy the same ticket at the Civic Auditorium box office sans convenience fees for $32.50--a savings of nearly $14.One reason that Ticketmaster can impose such prices is that it faces little competition in the events ticketing business; the company holds exclusive contracts with the majority of venues in the United States. In 1994, the rock band Pearl Jam famously complained to the U.S. Department of Justice that TicketMaster's high prices were made possible by a monopoly, but the DOJ ultimately decided that Ticketmaster hadn't broken any antitrust laws.


This infuriates me the most! Talk about the term---EASY MONEY!!!!!!

RipRokken wrote:

Rick wrote:

Perrydise wrote:Numbers 5 and 6 are RPITA's

#11. Undecipherable acronyms.

LOL -- I'm going to take a stab and assume it means "Real pains in the arse".

Correctomundo!!!!!!

RipRokken wrote:

Rick wrote:

Perrydise wrote:Numbers 5 and 6 are RPITA's

#11. Undecipherable acronyms.

LOL -- I'm going to take a stab and assume it means "Real pains in the arse".

I feel so stupid!

WickedGail wrote:

RipRokken wrote:

Rick wrote:

Perrydise wrote:Numbers 5 and 6 are RPITA's

#11. Undecipherable acronyms.

LOL -- I'm going to take a stab and assume it means "Real pains in the arse".

Correctomundo!!!!!!

Something funny about that... Years ago, I used to know of a law office software app based on a proprietary database search engine named "PITA" -- the program's icon was named the same. One of the developers shared with me that PITA actually stood for "Pain In The ***", and that named it such because it was such a royal pain to create. Of course, they didn't share that with the customers.

Don't let me threadjack... Continue on with the discussion!

RipRokken wrote:

Rick wrote:

Perrydise wrote:Numbers 5 and 6 are RPITA's

#11. Undecipherable acronyms.

LOL -- I'm going to take a stab and assume it means "Real pains in the arse".

Real/Royal - you got the right idea Rip