Save ! by not feeding the Trolls

 Trolls Exposed: What kind of troll is disrupting your online community?
Dave Stancliff/For the Times-Standard
Posted: 05/31/2009 01:27:12 AM PDT

Don't feed the trolls.

You know the ones I'm talking about. They prey on news forums, chat
rooms, and other online communities. Their purpose: to disrupt any
conversation or thread, and to get an emotional response from some
unwary person. Ignoring them and not responding to their posts is your
best option.

What kind of people are trolls? They're cowards. Lonely cowards. Their
posts seldom show any real imagination and often resort to childish
name-calling.

Trolls are often extremely pedantic and rarely answer direct questions.
There are some exceptions, but most aren't smart enough to make a
reasonable argument. They're not interested in reason. They repeat
themselves and say stupid, off-focus things to disrupt conversations.

Some trolls like to brag about their IQ. They try to come across like
rocket scientists to lure the unwary and then pounce with a verbal
attack. Trolls count the responses they get. It must be highly
pleasurable for the poor creatures to count coups if they disrupt other
people's emotional equilibrium.

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Trolls don't seem to be a problem here. Oh, ablang pastes an
occasional long and needless article, but then he goes away.
The problem is spam, which includes the Chinese, Indians, and the
various pyramid schemes. We just have to deal with it. It's nothing to
kill yourself over.

 
If your going around google groups posting trivial non-news articles
from regional newspapers, obviously you are being paid by those
newspapers to drum up business.

Your post has nothing to do with the purpose of this group.