Dealing with Anti-Microsoft Trolls on The Internet

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Published on 2008-12-21T18:26:12Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 9:43 UTC
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I'm an active member on Programming Reddit, but I'm one of the few C# advocates there.

I could write up a 3 paragraph explanation of how to do something there, just to have it voted into the negatives because I used C# as an example.

As a developer using the "Microsoft Stack", how do you handle the trolls and bigots in the online world? These are the kind of people who say things like "M$", or that Vista sucks without ever booting up.

Do you just ignore the trolls?

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