http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.523187.23

Why do people fall for these kinds of threads?

They start like "I was frogmarched out of the company by security after completing my last line of code"

Or "Help, the indian outsource team is at the gate baying for my blood" and so on...

The thread invariable gets a lot of attention as people offer their sage advice. Are we programmers just a naieve lot?

Feel free to troll all you like...

invariably... naive....i not spel so gud tonite

Joel on software, have to love it.

This guy went from a troll to:

"but I don't think this guy is so much a troll as an autistic savant."

You can tell a troll by some little things.  If was offered 3 million why cant he share any information about the site.  At 3 million, that should be a pretty mainstream site.

I bet what happened, he saw similar sites that were worth 3 million and so he just naturall assumed that his app was worth 3 million.  I bet his site is worth $0-$1

As if all of you weren't just as gullible when I first got to JoS.

I'm still that gullible, but I still appreciate your lessons, muppet.

I don't see why he's necessarily a troll, though he may be testing the water rather than saying exaactly what happened.

But it's pretty ridiculous to ask for legal advice whilst refusing to give enough information about the situation to identify you. The first thing my lawyer does in Lanka is sit you down and ask you to say exactly what happened in your own words whilst his wife transcribes it.