lemur01 opened this issue on Oct 24, 2002 ยท 86 posts
xoconostle posted Thu, 24 October 2002 at 5:47 PM
"Tagging" in this context sounds to me sort of like what "trolling" is on Usenet. If anyone doesn't know, that means posting a deliberately provocative post for no better reason than to upset people. Roughly. Trolls usually don't actually care about the issues, they just want to get a reaction and feel superior or powerful because they actually pushed some buttons. It's pretty lame. I have seen some examples of that sort of thing in the forums during the past couple of weeks, but that's just my opinion. I can't know for sure if those people meant what they said sincerely, but it looked like they just wanted to stir the pot. If "tagging" really means speaking critically of P5 or CL, which I doubt, then there's a free speech problem here which disserves the integrity of the forums. I've been openly critical of some of the evil things people have said about CL employees with absolutely no real clue of what they were talking about, but I wouldn't advocate censoring them unless they made threats or clearly intended to libel for no better reason. Sometimes it's healthy to vent. But still, I doubt if that's what "tagging" is, here. Maybe there's a little too much conspiracy theory regarding the CL/Rosity relationship? :-) And since I'm rambling, in my large USA city, "taggers" are referred to derisively by real grafitti artists and everyone else. Taggers simply squirt their pseudonym indiscriminately, with no consideration of context or the potential value of the defacement, frequently without any calligraphic sense. They tend to be on the younger side of "teenage." They're sort of like "trolls" on Usenet. :-) Maybe all the taggers really want is a hug. (yuck!)