How about those of us here of rational mind make a pact to ignore trolls or other blokes (ahem...Soviet Guy...ahem) who do nothing but flame and insult. If we all made a pact to do this, they would most likely stop posting and go away. By responding to them, we are just encouraging their behavior and ensuring that they stick around clogging up the works.Any takers?
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Shoot the Trolls
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I usually ignore them but in honesty, that kind of goes against human nature. It's very hard to sit in silence when someone is basically pouring verbal poop allover the place.We all hope to make the post that is so rapier sharp that we might get the last word in with a troll.
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That's very true, but as we're seeing, they never shut up as long as anyone gives them any kind of response...be it rapier or pedestrian.But you are right about the human nature part of it. Makes it difficult for me to stay out of a lot of things as well. I wish I had a better track record around that.
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Yeah, some people can't help responding, as Unsupervised said, its in our nature. Everybody wants to have their opinion heard, and once the person responds with a different view.... well, you get the same result that we get here everyday.
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probably the best bet is to hit the little report button at the bottom of someone's post as soon as they go down the road of slandering race or religeon. Seems a bit like tattling, which rubs me the wrong way in general, but it's probably the only effective method.
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You can`t get rid of trools by ignoring them. In many cases they would continue posting , except for the ones that post because of low-esteem . Thouse would stop, the others not. What would stop the most would be an inteligent post which attacks them at a higher level than they attack. -> as in be smarter
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> What would stop the most would be an inteligent post which attacks them at a higher level than they attack.
Where we gonna find these people? Should we take up a collection and hire Christopher Hitchens or Rex Reed?
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you guys are all human too, so stop complaining about it ya bastards.