Bert
2007-09-16 08:14:16 UTC
We've all had enough of the idiots screaming
about the video camera. What I'm about to lay out for you are
techniques that, if applied consistently, will drive the
little numbnuts out of their simple minds.
First, we all need to be on the same page. If ten people are sticking
to the playbook, and one is freelancing, it doesn't work. This is
known as establishing the talking points. There can be only one
message. This is devastating. They want to single people out and
control the discussion.
A little background into troll psychology, the trolls come here
believing that they will get their message out. This is
psychologically important to them. If we don't play that game, if we
don't HEAR that message, it will eventually drive them to
frustration, and beyond.
1) Everyone is doing it. (One of the essential characteristics of a
good talking point, it has just enough truth to be believable, and
not much more. Morally ambiguous. Let this fly often, and watch them
flip.)
2) Scouting is legal.
3) Video is an essential part of scouting.
4) The Patriots were guilty of disobeying a memo, not a league rule.
5) The Patriots were scouting. (Note how language controls the
discussion.)
6) The Patriots will continue to win.
7) Belichick is a lock for the HOF, you would love to have him as
your coach. (Smugness.)
8) Three Super Bowls don't lie. (Don't know what it means, but
that's the beauty of it.)
9) People resent the Patriots' success, and need to find fault with
it to diminish their own failures.
10) Your team couldn't win with 10 cameras, 15 microphones and a
magic sky pixie. (So true.)
So, in summation, don't get caught up actually arguing with trolls,
just provide them points that they can't refute, use them liberally,
and repeatedly. One message. Stay aloof, don't get emotional. Let
their idiocy fall on deaf ears. Then watch as they suffer a
meltdown.
Enjoy.
Oh, a couple more things. Don't show weakness. Don't apologize. Asabout the video camera. What I'm about to lay out for you are
techniques that, if applied consistently, will drive the
little numbnuts out of their simple minds.
First, we all need to be on the same page. If ten people are sticking
to the playbook, and one is freelancing, it doesn't work. This is
known as establishing the talking points. There can be only one
message. This is devastating. They want to single people out and
control the discussion.
A little background into troll psychology, the trolls come here
believing that they will get their message out. This is
psychologically important to them. If we don't play that game, if we
don't HEAR that message, it will eventually drive them to
frustration, and beyond.
1) Everyone is doing it. (One of the essential characteristics of a
good talking point, it has just enough truth to be believable, and
not much more. Morally ambiguous. Let this fly often, and watch them
flip.)
2) Scouting is legal.
3) Video is an essential part of scouting.
4) The Patriots were guilty of disobeying a memo, not a league rule.
5) The Patriots were scouting. (Note how language controls the
discussion.)
6) The Patriots will continue to win.
7) Belichick is a lock for the HOF, you would love to have him as
your coach. (Smugness.)
8) Three Super Bowls don't lie. (Don't know what it means, but
that's the beauty of it.)
9) People resent the Patriots' success, and need to find fault with
it to diminish their own failures.
10) Your team couldn't win with 10 cameras, 15 microphones and a
magic sky pixie. (So true.)
So, in summation, don't get caught up actually arguing with trolls,
just provide them points that they can't refute, use them liberally,
and repeatedly. One message. Stay aloof, don't get emotional. Let
their idiocy fall on deaf ears. Then watch as they suffer a
meltdown.
Enjoy.
fans we personally did nothing wrong, and we aren't in any way
culpable. What the team supposedly did wrong is really a matter of
splitting moral hairs, and would be difficult, if not impossible, to
argue in a court of law. Don't play into stupid troll games by taking
responsibility for something that is, at worst, a media creation, a
witch hunt, and a shade of morality a degree removed from off-white.
Yeah, that works every time.