Wow, it's been a long time since we've had a real troll here. I guess all the Vref and IC3 and SMT jargon keeps them away, but occasionally one slips through.
I know I should just ignore "S M", and I never respond to a troll directly, but sometimes I find that discussing them in a separate thread in the third person irritates them enough to make them vanish.
I don't know what to make of "S M". His location indicates "United States", but his status message "ist gerade der Community beigetreten" is in German ["just joined the community"] and he threatens to report us to the West Yorkshire police. He's using the classic troll modus operanti: the first sign-on is a diatribe full of passive-agressive concerns, in this case with an agressively large font. What intrigues me is the amount of effort he went to to prepare that diatribe. It's really a lot of work for something that people are going to ignore. So what's the real motivation behind all this? Is he really that bored, or did element14 strike a raw nerve somewhere and bring out a sock puppet?
Forturnate, he promised to go back under his bridge and stay there after post #3. We'll see how truthful that ends up. I would like to comment about this comment:
S M wrote:
If you want to discuss the Rasperry Pi Foundation's failings (real, imagined or otherwise) you are in the wrong place. Start a new thread of your own.
I find that such an utterly absurd comment. I can see raspberrypi.org saying this as the banning blade falls, but it's their site and they get to limit discussion. However, I would expect that most people who participate in the element14 Raspberry Pi community are genuinely supportive of the stated goals of the RasPi Foundation, and as good engineers we should point out when the RasPowersThatBe are acting against those self-professed goals. Sometimes we're wrong, but often we're right and limiting our speech is not going to help Raspberry Pi meet its goals.
I would also like to point out that the element14 participants "S M" singled out have been important contributors to element14's RasPi community -- both technically and philosophically -- and have all (if I am not mistaken) been featured as "contributor of the month".
