Re: translation needed

Matt Pearson wrote:
>
> Fabian, quoting someone from sci.lang.japan:
> >> If only some of the energy you expend discussing these fictional languages could
> >> be harnessed for something useful!
> Studying endangered and dying languages requires money to pay for
> consultants, and in many cases additional funding to cover travel and
> accomodations for the linguist.
The worst thing about destructive trolls is they steal time and energy
from productive people, to satisfy their own deep emptiness.

My observation is that unmoderated discussion groups tend to be
hijacked by such flaming idiots (note dual meaning), especially
the untraceable ones such as on usenet. My prediction is that
eventually, only moderated groups will survive. It is similar
to the economic problem called "the tragedy of the commons".

However, CONLANG seems quite free of that garbage, hooray!
Maybe conlangers are inherently nicer or something?