[ SECRET POST #2957 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2957 ⌋

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Comments

[lb_lee]

I myself have always been pretty cynical about the "don't feed the troll" mindset. It just seems a new variant of, "if you ignore them, they'll go away."

Seriously, if someone came into a party and started shitting in the punchbowl, most people at the party would have them ejected. They wouldn't just go, "Ignore them, they always do this, they just want attention." Maybe they do, maybe they don't, but they're still wrecking the party.

--Rogan

[(Anonymous)]

In meatspace, I totally agree with you. Online, I guess it depends. If a troll is attacking people, then ignoring them is tacitly supporting those attacks. If the troll is just posting shit to post shit, then a lot of times they're just looking for a reaction and giving it to them just encourages them to keep finding new punchbowls to shit in. Plus, ignoring them was a lot easier back in ye olde days of the internet, when you could killfile the trolls (so less "ignore them and they'll go away" and more "shun the nonbeliever"). Ah, Usenet. How I miss you in all your wanky glory.

[lb_lee]

True, but it can sometimes be difficult to differentiate one kind of troll from the other, especially if they're the hit-and-run type.

Also, my experience is apparently kind of weird in that all the people who've trolled me (and I mean focused on ME personally, not the Mammoth Troll Brigade) were people I already knew, often very well. It wasn't some random anon looking for attention; it was an abusive relationship often online AND off, with the troll sometimes trying to PRETEND they were an anon (or MANY anons) to make me believe I was being ganged up on.

So I haven't really encountered the trolls who want attention. I've met the trolls who want to cause me pain, and utterly DELIGHT in environments where people won't feed them, because there will be no curtail on their behavior.

See, THAT kind of ignore actually sounds more useful. But I definitely came from environments on LJ where you were encouraged to do the other kind of ignore--and this included comm mods. Because feeding a troll would be 'drama,' never mind that the troll is causing plenty all on their own.

--Rogan

--Rogan