The problem is that you will never, ever, get these people to concede any ground. As emordnilap mentioned, you can't win against them, they'll just keep repeating the same specious arguments until you get bored, and then to a naive outsider it will look as though they've won.kenneal - lagger wrote:I, among other people, some not a million miles away from you, Biff, have had discussions with certain people about technical matters which need to be discussed. If there is a technical thread or matter in which people are being mislead I will take that matter up if it's within my area of competence.biffvernon wrote:And those who encourage them, aka troll-feeding, should also be pilloried.kenneal - lagger wrote: People who come to this forum to disrupt it or come here and are doing absolutely nothing themselves are the ones who should be pilloried.
(And I'm not talking about Ludwig )
What you can do is repeatedly challenge their motivation, because if they don't respond to that then you've won the argument.