Re-post: How to deal with trolls

Iā€™m pretty certain its not a troll thread, and it clearly shows how the bad assumptions he made are not winning him points, and how attacks just make him talk more. I think sbā€™s judgement to leave it up is great, and shows fair-mindedness and class. He does need to take a chill pill though, and cool down and come back and apologize for insinuating financial links, but its the first thing an excitable guy out for ā€œjusticeā€ in his cause tends to do. :slight_smile:

I agree but wanted to stop the insults before they escalated. If he were truly a troll that wouldnā€™t happen but being upset can mean saving comments that would be better left out. Once that starts it can be hard to differentiate from paranoia in that like running around on a freeway it will get you smacked by a high percentage of travelers just for being there.

Good policy here inre trolls.

Feed not the Troll, for they will consumeth your peace.

Phil

Donā€™t feed the trollā€¦.

It took a little while, but i got there :smiley:

Please resize your troll, itā€™s over fed.

Do trolls know they are trolls?

Bump, if I wanted squabbling Iā€™d go to CNN.

Question: Are trolls people too?

Trolls are what comes out of a pod when good people go to sleep.

Scary.

And copper is the same looking on the ends as it does on the sides.

Offer them cat food.

(We love cat food.) :evil:

I just found this great plugin to remove troll posts on youtube called Hide fedora

It works great really great to cleanup the cesspool that youtube comment section have turn it to lately, just add some of the most annoying posts in the block list if the server block list havenā€™t blocked that troll user already, like for example all troll ā€œwho are watching this inā€¦ā€¦ā€¦bla bla decemberā€ idiots who copy and paste large aschii art posts all over the comment sections.
Just add watching for example or a part of that ascii art and you will never have to see one of those again :bigsmile:

EDIT
I wish we could block users here actually, not just from messaging us but from seeing there posts also.
Fortunately the worst offenders have already been banned, but that can take a while sometimes before a new troll screw up so bad he gets banned, and it would be great to just be able not see there posts at all when we have had enough.

That would also help those who really dislike some of the commercial parts and users here, they could just block all those users they donā€™t want to do business with anyway, and not have to see them everywhere :slight_smile:

Now to be a Troll first and foremost

One must find out what angers the most

Make a thread go astray

In a horrible way

Inject venom into every post

You pretend to be really engrossed

Then put up a sarcastic riposte

When their wrath they betray

You are well on your way

In the coals of their anger they'll roast

Of your Trollery soon you can boast

You've disrupted things to the utmost

At the end of the day

You can then proudly say

That your work is all done

Well , almost ....