hi..

> Yup, but there were posts from people who knew better, just for the
> sake of trolling your site.  Those posts were repetitive, across
> articles.

yes, requiring membership is not a panacea ... it does not solve problems 
completely and makes a site a little less hospitable (unless the whole point 
of the site is to bond together an already well-defined membership, in which 
case just the opposite would be true).

i'd like to take a moment and thank navindra et al for their hard work on 
theDot. you are doing an excellent job! and a (red) hat's tip to bero for 
hosting it _reliably_!

my take on theDot in general is that it is well read and well known amongst 
Linux/BSD/etc users. its open door policies are a great representation of the 
KDE development community. when a user comes to theDot, the lack of 
memberships, rating systems and silly polls along with the clean simple 
design of the site speaks volumes to what one can come to expect from the KDE 
project as a whole: open functional elegance.

a representative ought to reflect the culture of that which it represents, 
and I think theDot does a wonderful job of doing just that.

> Yes, this was a bad article.  However we lasted for a *long* time
> since our previous bad troll attack.  People seem to disregard this
> fact.  We were even explicitly targeted by troll-site geekizoid.com,
> and from hidden forums like trolltalk on Slashdot.

yes, if the chinese article was "bad" then theDot is doing just fine, 
especially given that it is a high profile site for a well-known and wildly 
popular project that *gasp* not everyone likes.

-- 
Aaron Seigo
 
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