Edit, since people are now seeing this post who did not see the the reason for it:
At the time of creating and posting this, there was an account that was created using a well known username and spamming extremly transphobic hate posts. Some users were starting to interact with this very obvious troll, so I thought it might be a good idea to generally remind people how to treat these trolls. This is not about some light hearted banter or good faith jokes, this is about trolls that are truly only about spreading hate.
Hey discord, my age verification is that I remember when trolls were named after people that went trolling for fights and flame wars by leaving a trail of bait-posts.
Either way though, don’t feed the trolls and stop making stupid people famous.
this is the only definition of an internet troll I know
stop making stupid people famous.
um, i would like to apply for an exception please. some day i would like to be famous for a piece of art i make eventually and i am very, very stupid.
Ha. Fair enough but if you make art, thats not the kind of stupid I mean,
oh it’s a worse stupid. there was a dude who once put a bunch of oversized beach umbrellas every 50 meters along the spanish riviera for like 20 miles (i think i’m remembering the story right) and it was gorgeous and everything and a beautiful work of art until the wind picked up and not all of the umbrellas were 100% solidly anchored because beach wind and so they started rolling down the coast and like those things are sharp and if i recall he got charged with involuntary environmental ecoterrorism and i’ve always kind of been inspired by that
i’m thinking something with kudzu
Thats fucking awesome. Its like a cross of Andy Goldsworthy, Christo, and the Cat in the Hat.
If you ever need a hand, I’m right here.
thank you i will definitely need a second getaway driver
That person really has a hate boner for the 2 people they are impersonating.
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I actively run 12 accounts, myself! You wouldn’t believe how much self-arguing we do!
this is a joke
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Oddly enough, every single one.
Nice try, pal.
You guys are hilarious. /eyeroll
You’d really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and be an asshole?
Can I eat the trolls? 🥺
I won’t kinkshame.
You can. But it hurts to pass their little tummy gems. Those don’t digest.
Don’t feed the trolls. Report, block, move on
Very good advice. But if you have some sort of personality defect that makes you occasionally engage with trolls like I do, here is some additional advice:
Make your comment less effort than the trolls. Don’t argue every point. Focus on their weakest point.
Essentially, if you can’t resist responding to a troll because you’re an idiot like me, make it like one short sentence where you point out their biggest mistake, and then if they respond to you and you respond back, keep doing that and never let them change the subject. At least you’re causing them to waste effort.
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If you block a troll, then you will no longer be able to report or monitor their bad behavior. So the problem isn’t solved.
That’s why the steps are ordered this way. First report, then block. And if you want to, you can view the reported post while logged out, check modlogs, etc.
I meant future bad behavior. A lot of people view blocking as a last resort and I think that’s a valid viewpoint.
Just read my post text. This is about accoints that usually should get banned outright anyway.
I block for my mental health. Bad behavior is for the moderators to worry about. I got enough shit going on in my life to be a vigilante on lemmy.
They using new one day accounts that will be deleted in 24 hours, so its useless to block them
<.< This is an odd observation to be posted with a one day old account… 😅
Surely not seeing their content does fix the problem.
- This person’s comments and posts are making my experience worse
- block
- no longer see their comments and posts
- experience no longer being damaged by their comments and posts.
Right, obviously blocking works for individuals. Just not for the wider community, as banning does.
… yes… which is why both tools exist, and why you should report people who break community rules before blocking them.
This isn’t complicated. I don’t have to block anyone and none of you can make me. I have my reasons.
Ps. I have a healthy blocklist and don’t need the weird preaching anyhow.
Are you … just looking to pick a fight?
No, you don’t need to block anyone, but blocking is a useful and important tool.
Yes I’m insisting on fighting. /s
Kinda like you’re insisting I block people even after I explained a rational reason that some people don’t immediately block them
I literally didn’t… I even explicitly said you dont need to block anyone. You might find fewer “trolls” if you bothered to read comments before responding to them.
How does block work on Lemmy?
On Reddit you used to be able to block to filter out the spammers but they changed it so it didn’t block their posts.
On lemmy, if you block a user, you will not see any post or comment they make.
What if their untrue statement is purely for a really good pun?
I won’t feed the trolls, but you (moderation) will in part need to remove them from under the bridges and banish them from the town squares. You may even have to remove them from your own ranks.
The irony of people arguing with OP.
I can’t help it! They’re trying to convince people voting is bad.
The irony of everyone voting on your comment.
Do you mean those types of people by the term trolls who often post nonsense stuff like this for no reason or nah?(I don’t understand):
To quote myself:
spamming extremly transphobic hate posts
and
this is about trolls that are truly only about spreading hate.
Not sure what is hard to understand about this.
I needed this today
well the fact that as human being myself I don’t know everything that you do and the fact that I don’t hear the word troll as in that sense often that’s why it was hard for me to understand
