This page documents some conflicts between Edward O'Connor (aka hober) and Xah Lee (me), from my perspective.
Edward O'Connor (aka hober) guy is a Free Software Foundation fanatic, and quick to label people who disagree with him as “troll”.
We first met in Freenode's IRC #emacs channel in ≈2006. At first he is friendly, but quickly considered me a “troll” due to my controversial opinions and unrelenting nature. Much more detail here: Freenode IRC Emacs Channel Ban on Xah Lee.
Why would he consider me troll? Here's few of my essays, he probably consider them trolling. Judge yourself:
Edward runs a emacs blog aggregate site http://planet.emacsen.org/. In ≈, Alex Ott suggested that my emacs blog be added, but Edward turned the request down, saying that i'm a “consummate troll”. The request is at https://github.com/hober/planet.emacsen.org/pull/2. Here's a screenshot:
I have since learned, he also labeled several other programers troll. See: http://edward.oconnor.cx/experiments/trolls/. Quote:
Experiments with troll markup
See also the simple container of hCards on the block list brainstorming page of the microformats wiki, and my troll-filters project on github.
People I consider to be trolls Troll Email addresses Rob Burns rob@robburns.com John Foliot foliot@wats.ca, jfoliot@stanford.edu, foliot@stanford.edu Xah Lee xah@xahlee.org, xahlee@gmail.com William Loughborough wloughborough@gmail.com Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk Shelley Powers shelley.just@gmail.com, shelleyp@burningbird.net Leif Halvard Silli lhs@malform.no Philip TAYLOR P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk Some stats related to HTML 5All of the above trolls have participated or are participating in the HTML 5 standardization effort except for Xah.
Here's a screenshot:
