[fastcarsfreedom]

Now we're concerning ourselves with staying on track on a thread about that exact topic?

Civility has been gone from this Forum for ages--I've beaten that drum so many times that it finally broke and I had to take up pottery to occupy my time. I am all for a greater level of civility and less personal animosity.

With that in mind--the entire issue of "trolling" is wildly overstated in the context of this Forum. I have seen only a few instances of actual "troll" behavior--barely enough to warrant even a mention. Nonetheless, a recent tactic has been to accuse those who simply dissent of being trolls--which is utterly and completely ridiculous and counter-democratic. If I were to come on board and make a statement about organized labor or the political situation in the Middle East that was blatantly biased and designed to illicit a particular response--that would be trolling. When 100 posters say one thing and I come on to counter that--that isn't trolling--that's an argument.