Throttling a Troll
bubba267
Livin my inner redneck
Okay, I admit it...sometimes the trolls get to me. If nothing else, just their waste of visual space on the discussion board. Would you be in favor of a strict policy limiting an IP address to one account? I'm not in favor of censorship and if the troll is really motivated, they could still create an account at each place they have computer access. What do you think?
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The ignore button is the easiest solution. Use it frequently.
That would make a good top 40 list for founder.
But, if you have to power cycle to fix a glitch, or the power goes out, you're not guaranteed to get the same address back again.
Joking aside, I always find the troll complaints interesting. Trolling is in the eye of the beholder.
There are people I don't understand. Take anonlvone for example. I don't care that that he was into conspiracy theories. I just didn't understand why conspiracy theories were the ONLY thing he wanted to post about on a strip club board.
But was he trolling? I don't think so. He genuinely was a crazy weirdo that liked to post conspiracy theories. He actually kept PMing me after he stopped posting, presumably because he feels so strongly about his crazy conspiracy theories! ;)
I have no doubt that some people are trying to fuck with other people. But how do you tell the weirdos from the trolls? I am a weirdo and I know I irritate some people. If they don't like me they can click ignore. I'm not intentionally trying to irritate them but if they don't find what I say to their taste they can just click ignore!
Maybe somebody you are irritated by is genuinely trying to irritate people. Maybe not. Just click ignore if you want to and figure that it takes people more time to create a new alias than it takes for you to click ignore! ;)
That's the brilliant way!
1. Recognize the juicebox69 alias trolls (it's pretty easy to recognize the Juice aliases). His most recent trolls are UGK22, trish_club_lust, brotherfoghorn, dancingtruck, bigdicksammy, etc, etc, etc
2. Hit the ignore button right away
You should write a book and call it "How to lose friends and influence people to dislike you".
You're a troll yourself and not a particularly funny one.
the worst part is.....its likely the same one or two people who controls all those troll accounts
I know it's difficult because we're programmed to fight back but the best course of action against trolls is simply to not respond to any and I mean any posts that they make. This really upsets them more than anything you could say because the only exist for the attention. Most are just lonely people that can't get laid.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. Eric Hoffer
Trolls have other motives: to gain a sense of power over other; dominate.
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. Eric Hoffer
And another motive: sadism - the pleasure gained from inflicting emotional pain on others, e.g. RIP trolling on memorial pages of a recently deceased person.
It's easy to find examples of all 3 types on TUSCL
AK
Man plans; God laughs
Beating the meat.
Spanking the monkey.
happy to see you recognized yourself in one of his aphorisms........just saying.