Trolls?
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I'm guessing we're discussing trolling on the internet? If so, then you must remember some viable information about this place... It's the internet.
Trolling will be on the internet. Deal with it. Learn to get used to it because it's not going away any time soon. But yeah, I have no problem with trolling. I find it hard to get mad at someone because some text popped up on the screen that I don't particularly agree with. If someone gets bothered about something said to them over the internet and it's from someone that they will NEVER meet in real life and has done no physical harm to them whatsoever, then they just need to learn how to deal with it.
I may sound like a total douche right now but that's just my opinion. I'd like to take everything that I see on the internet with a grain of salt (with some exceptions, obviously).
Trolling will be on the internet. Deal with it. Learn to get used to it because it's not going away any time soon. But yeah, I have no problem with trolling. I find it hard to get mad at someone because some text popped up on the screen that I don't particularly agree with. If someone gets bothered about something said to them over the internet and it's from someone that they will NEVER meet in real life and has done no physical harm to them whatsoever, then they just need to learn how to deal with it.
I may sound like a total douche right now but that's just my opinion. I'd like to take everything that I see on the internet with a grain of salt (with some exceptions, obviously).
While I myself would agree to simply say "deal with it", some will usually be annoyed to an extent. In many instances, I will not chime in to feed the troll nor participate in conversations that are about rebuking them. Hell, in this case, dealing with "it" is the worst thing to say, even if you say you sound like a douche. I myself have been trolled and now seems like a scenario where voicing my opinion is best. Remember: Whatever anyone says is their opinion.
Don't get me wrong, it builds up. Sitting there just listening to the troll ramble isn't going to help. Grabbing an OP is somewhat helpful. Some people are just too sensitive to anything said, even if they know the words are coming out of a troll. You just can't tell them to shush without muting them, eventually someone wants to be a back-seat helper. Trolls are a delicate situation, with the idea that they are essentially unconvincable forces that only have one goal: to annoy as many people as they can.
What fuels their will? Many psychiatrists and behavioral study people would agree that it is the ability they can troll and the security blanket of Internet anonymity. They're like news companies. Can't force them to change, even if you had the law on your side opposing them. They have to be fueled by reactions in order to keep going, which is going to further their drive to troll. Banning them will grant their wish, as they feel they have annoyed you. It's a delicate situation. Dealing with many trolls isn't hard. To change them requires you listening to them and ultimately convincing them to be better people, which is hard.
Now for listeners to trolls. For those too sensitive, simply sitting there and listening to hatred will just build up angst, which in turn will make people feel the urge to get them banned via rebuking them, which gives them attention as they want. So what would the sensitive people do? They just need a talk, not a superficial talk of course. "Hey, remember Troll X? Well, he's gone." Some people are just restless to further feed the troll. I cannot give a generalized way to remove all urges in sensitive people concerning trolls. What I can say is that it would depend on a person's outlook to that specific troll, as I did say trolls are case to case. If their outlook is a general mood that the troll is evil, then a long chat about why trolls are this way might do.
Recap: Trolls feel like they are invincible, because in real life they are accustomed to getting what they want. In turn, they want attention. Banning them will do, but it further fuels them. An extremely good and convincing case to case conversation will ultimately change them. Many OPs just can't deal with the amount of work that would take compared to simply banning them. As for the sensitive people, a good chat to calm them down will do.
And dam, if anyone would be as to willing to utterly make a troll not a troll, I will applaud them for their work. By the way, I haven't done so, because I am not an OP. Trolls want the attention of OPs and just consider player feedback to be a general thing to dismiss.
I'd figured I was going to catch a little flak for posting that.
Anyway, I completely understand what you're coming from. Maybe it's just from personal experience from myself, or lack thereof, that I've never been in that type of situation to deal with it myself. Sure, I've had my run-in with a few trolls in my time on the internet. I was posting my general opinion about the situation. Like I was saying before, I take everything I see on the internet with a grain of salt and learn not to let it bother me. I suppose not everyone has the same consensus about it. Which I understand.
I've yet to meet someone in my time of being on the internet who was completely overwhelmed by it. To be emotionally hurt over something on the internet but someone you've never met seems like something to not get bent out of shape about. But again, there are people who feel differently about situations. My general reaction is to just let it slide by and not let it bother me. But, I can see how people would get very angry or sad about it. It's just in the human nature.
Onto another point; there is the case of people who you DO know that has "trolled" you. That falls under cyber-bullying but I suppose it's in the same general topic. That is something I don't like to say "deal with it" about. It's just a case of you knowing the person in real life and them hurting you emotionally. I feel it's a bit more serious than some random guy being a dick on the internet. It could cause real life confrontations and someone getting physically hurt over the whole ordeal. Which, believe me, I do NOT like.
Thanks for actually giving a thought-out response. I hope to hear more.
I'm glad you'd like to hear more. I was considering making an advice thread, but some people would just opt out as it would get too personal. It does occur to me that the definition of troll varies. I'm guessing someone could make a chart of defining the types of trolls, as it appears to be a consensus of good/bad trolls.
RaneofPane
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I dislike trolls/trolling not because it's offensive, but because it's usually boring and unoriginal, not to mention obvious.
