Tag Archives: troll

Being trolling, ad hominem and unconstructive

Post 58 in a thread (BTW, I don’t agree with certain aspects of Nogbad’s post, but we can discuss that later) gets this response describing what causes comments to be edited or deleted: It’s a matter of it being trolling and ad hominem, not to mention being unconstructive Post 59 in the thread says: Debito [...]

Flame of the week – or not

After the recently-mentioned outing of a troll, we get in the same thread this wall of abuse: We do generally get reasonable treatment – but have no legal right to it, because gaijin aren’t really human and thus don’t actually have any rights. Eg education, many NJ children do attend Japanese schools, but if there’s [...]

Flame of the week – two for the price of one

Finally the afterglow from Canada has worn off and Mr Arudou’s true self is once again shining through. A punter asks about how to find a breakdown of registered foreigners by nationality, a figure that one would expect an activist on these issues to have at his fingertips, but instead the commenter gets left with [...]