John C. Dvorak's Trolling Techniques

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Cites ftse · 2009-08 · on “Ask HN: why is ftse dead ?”

ftse here. I didn't know my account was dead to the world, but thanks jacquesm for letting me know. In hindsight my comment at [LINK] does appear trollish, but I assumed the bright sparks reading would have taken it in context. It was exactly the type of comment Dvorak would have made in defence of the accusation that he is a professional troll. Anyway, he has admitted this on video to Dave Winer, see [this video] . The fact that I was posting this comment in irony was obviously lost, though, on mustpax who said I should be civil. As much as I admire what pg has done here with NH, I really can't be bothered writing to him to explain all this if his code doesn't have the charity to let me know whe

Cites jacquesm · 2009-08 · on “Ask HN: why is ftse dead ?”

for those who don't have 'showdead' on: ftse here. I didn't know my account was dead to the world, but thanks jacquesm for letting me know. In hindsight my comment at [LINK] does appear trollish, but I assumed the bright sparks reading would have taken it in context. It was exactly the type of comment Dvorak would have made in defence of the accusation that he is a professional troll. Anyway, he has admitted this on video to Dave Winer, see [this video] . The fact that I was posting this comment in irony was obviously lost, though, on mustpax who said I should be civil. As much as I admire what pg has done here with NH, I really can't be bothered writing to him to explain all this if his code doe

Critical drats · 2010-11 · on “Google's Inevitable Ruin Begins”

I got modded into a smouldering crater for pointing out that another article was a massive troll.[1] I think I was modded down for the fact that I enjoyed it: despite the fact I was highlighting it was a troll and that people shouldn't take it seriously. Almost everything in tech journalism these days consists of hyperbole or trolling to get maximum hits or, failing that, thinly reworded press releases and superficial reviews to minimize the actual effort required to publish. There are a few exceptions - namely things like the really in-depth SSD reviews conducted by Anandtech which actually had well constructed benchmarks, told you something new and really valuable and actually went and did

Critical DerekL · 2020-08 · on “Jeff Bezos convinced 22 investors to back his new company Amazon in 1994 (2018)”

“I was talking with Dvorak at the Vloggercon party this evening, and he started telling a story about how he deliberately pisses Mac users off to get flow for his stories…” – Dave Winer [LINK] [this video]

Critical uniqueid · 2021-05 · on “The Death of Expertise and the Rise of the Internet”

I agree with much of the essay, but I can't tell if it's a parody either. I associate the author, who cohosts an InfoWars-style podcast, with some of the kinds of bad content he complains about in this essay. It's also possible he's trolling for pageviews, which he has, by his own admission (ie: [this video] ), done in the past.

Critical mistersquid · 2023-06 · on “Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone (2007)”

John C. Dvorak is an admitted anti-Apple troll who went all in on click-bait to drive advertising revenue: a pioneer, if you will. [0] Eventually, he pissed of his editorship about 5G advertorial and was fired. [1] [2] [0] [this video] [1] [LINK] [2] [LINK]