that then get refuted by people that know better

I'm sick of making that effort.

I was looking for a solution that doesn't allow this irritant to waste so much of my time; whilst preventing his garbage from wasting that of other people who might be taken in by it.

morgon: Why? ... unambiguously calling nonsense nonsense is the way to do it.

Yeah few of us tried that -- a number of such nodes got reaped for trolling

3809 nodes is a lot of garbage to refute

3809 nodes is a lot of garbage to refute

Yeah, that's a lot to expect from people who are participating voluntarily because they want to learn new ideas and help people who are open to being helped. I'll admit that I rarely read this irritant's posts anymore, which means I'm not down-voting them either. I use an RSS reader to show me new nodes, so if I see his username, I don't read it because I already know it's nonsense. That's normal human behavior -- if someone's consistently annoying, you learn to avoid him -- but in this case it works in his favor, since if everyone does that he gets to post his nonsense unopposed and un-downvoted.

I enjoy PerlMonks very much and learn a lot here, but I don't know how much time I'm obligated to spend following one user around correcting his nonsense, just so we can say we haven't "censored" him. I owe the community some of my time, but not an unlimited amount, and I'd like to spend as much of it as possible helping people.

Aaron B.
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