...... Go back at look at how many times Jon has "said something," and how many times Larry has said something in response. It's only a very small fraction, and never until someone else has responded to Jon first. Jon just tries to antagonize Larry all the time, because Jon is a full-blown prick with very thin skin, a serious problem with self-esteem, and, in all probability, a clinically serious personality disorder.
Larry doesn't drink.
He has some bizarre ideas, but he's neither a mouth-breather nor a psychopath, which some folks here are -- mostly the cross-posters.
That is not trolling. Iggy is here to learn, and he learned most of his metalworking, in the early days, right here. Iggy asks questions because he sincerely wants answers.
Real trolls, like Jon, just talk or ask questions to antagonize, much of the time.
He is. After 14 years here, I'll testify to that. So will many others.
It depends on how you go about it. If you're basically antagonistic, it doesn't happen. Meantime, some perfectly pleasant and civil conservations go on here all the time. Ten or 12 years ago, most were like that. How that changed is something not worth going into.
Have fun.
No, most of us don't use killfiles, except for brief periods of pique. d8-)
After 14 years, I have a pretty good idea of how it goes.
You'll get the hang of Jon after a while.
Larry is an optimist. He thinks these clowns will go away if you just ignore them. It doesn't happen.
Starting around 12 years ago, a certain notorious poster here started cross-posting his copypasta political diatribes to some of the gnarlier newsgroups on Usenet. That started a flurry of angry cross-posts. Another poster here picked it up and made it worse. That one died, but the trolls already had RCM in their multi-NG macro files. They post anywhere they may have gotten a rise, even years in the past.
Now it won't let up.