Invisible wrote:
>>> Nobody else on the forum gets singled out as a troll. (Except for 
>>> that one guy who really *is* a troll!) Lots of other people, many of 
>>> them beginners like myself, manage to coexist quite happily. So 
>>> clearly I personally must be doing something very wrong to attract 
>>> this kind of negative attention.
>>
>> What made them think you're a troll?
> 
> This is of course the crucial question.
> 
> What is it about me that makes so many different people think that I'm 
> just an attention-seeking fool with a loud mouth who doesn't know what 
> he's talking about? Several different people, in unrelated forums, have 
> all independently come to the same conclusion. There must be a reason 
> for this.

If I had to guess I'd say that it has little to do with your ability and 
more to do with the volume of your posts (which I assume is similarly 
large on the Haskell forums).  Since this group is off-topic it's not 
really a problem, and I enjoy that it means there's almost always 
something to read when I want to procrastinate.  If the Haskell forums 
aren't off-topic, however, then it's something of a different story.  I 
imagine  you might get a similar reaction if you were accounting for 50% 
of the posts in povray.general (and people didn't know you from p.o-t 
already).

Anyway, I don't think you should take it personally, but remember that 
most other people can't keep up with your rate of posting, and that this 
might cause a problem in a forum where there's an expectation that posts 
will be read and carefully responded to.  Of course, I don't visit the 
Haskell forums so this is all pure speculation on my part, so feel free 
to discard it accordingly.

Also, don't confuse Haskell `sucking' with Haskell simply not being 
better than other languages in all circumstances.  I don't think 
anyone's arguing that C++ will always give you a `better' solution than 
Haskell for every problem.

Also also, don't get so down about not being the best at some things. 
No expert started out that way, and even for the best experts there's 
almost always someone better.  It's just part of life.

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