Trolls, their process is simple and easily dealt with once you understand it. In case you’re wondering what a troll is:
In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion. –Wikipedia
Here is a flowchart that shows the most efficient and often used process for trolling. As you can see if you (the target) don’t respond then the troll will move on fairly quickly.
Now that you are armed with a deeper understanding of the ways of trolls, go forth and defend!
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Wow, a certain English language website in Germany certainly contains alot of particularly gruesome trolls!
umm great flow chart. Phillip did a great job and it’s certainly true as I am being slammed with troll posts ..
but my question is– and I have to reach out to my tech support– is how to get rid of them.
I do categorize them as spam on the platform.. but geez. now I need to block IP addresses
Getting rid of trolls:
* Blocking IPs can help temporarily, but there are always more trolls.
* The best solution is probably just delete or ignore (“Do not feed the trolls”) since they get bored quickly and move on to easier targets.