Identity Thief?

There are far too many people in this group that jump on anyone with a different opinion (and lets face it, that is what most of this group is). Calling some one names is great if you are a net cop. Too many good people have been chased out of this group by such actions as this. I googled on Scarpitti's postings and I did not find anything at all that would indicate that he is a troll. He is remarkably opinionated and bases most of what he has posted in this group to his own experience but I would like to think that if he sticks around he will become more educated and valued member.

Bill

Salut/Hi Bill Loftin,

le/on Wed, 08 Sep 2004 14:49:37 GMT, tu disais/you said:-

Bill I VERY much respect your support for free speech and the underdog. I've fairly often noticed it in you, and, as I said, I respect you for it.

Hmm, what would be your definition of a troll then? Because he closely fits mine. His posts in the subject of airing wine have been, not to put too fine a point on it, complete nonsense. Like any other troll, instead of being prepared to discuss, or to justify, he has made a series of statements which are at odds with the facts.

So are most Trolls

How can this be, Bill? We ALL know that wines improve with some exposure to air, every winemaker in the WORLD knows it. Yet Mr Scarpitti persists in his dogmatic nonsense, and backs it up with further dogmatic nonsense.

A noble sentiment ;-))). If he's not a troll then he might, but frankly I doubt it. You say we've chased away too many good people from here. There are some good people who never or rarely post any more, Marcel, the Stratmeyers, Tom Reddick. I hope they wouldn't say they've been chased away.

There have also been people who have been generally lambasted, but usually because they've talked nonsense. They may be loving husbands or wives, good to their aging parents, and generally very nice people, but in general their contribution to the NG has been aggressive, divisive and destructive.

In any case I'm not doing any chasing anywhere. After reading two days of his contributions, he joined my killfile. Life's too short to argue with him.

I can only recall only one other instance in the past couple of years where "far too many people in this group" *jumped* on someone who was expressing a contrary opinion (at least about wine; OT matters such as politics are a different matter). There may have been others but Mr. Vega is the one I remember. Virtually every regular poster here, comprising a group whose opinions I have come to greatly respect (although I don't always agree with them), has told Mr. Scarpitti that he is wrong. When the evidence is irrefutable, he either ignores the posting, changes his argument to fit the evidence, or misrepresents what the poster has said.

And with all due respect, how do you know that what he is saying is based on his own experience? As for Google, I found the quote that was in my OP after about five minutes of looking at perhaps a dozen postings. In no way was I inclined to go through the approximately

I don't really care if he sticks around. I've killfiled him. I am not as optimistic as you are about his becoming an educated and valued member here.

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