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Anti-troll 101

Anti-troll 101

Dear members:

These are not cyber-war tactics ()…these are just common sense/courtesy/decency type tactics that if properly deployed could do this forum a world of good:

When a troll starts a thread:

IGNORE IT. Don’t respond…it just PERPETUATES the thread no matter how good your intentions because you bring the ‘troll’ thread back up where it certainly doesn’t belong.

REPORT it: Rather than responding you can right click on the ‘mother thread’ link and save the link and forward it to an Administrator whom can remove the link if it’s repugnant or rude etc.


REMEMBER: A troll wants attention…ignore him…and he leaves…keep giving him a trail of crumbs and he’ll follow.

Follow?

(((HUGS)))

-AngEla


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Reply #76 Top
thanks Weaksid

Shmoopy has to know that /me is tickilish

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Reply #77 Top
/me sneaks up on Iben and says in a silly accent...

"Teekle, teekle, teekl!"

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Reply #78 Top
Ut oh!

It's troll frag teams!

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Reply #79 Top
What makes trolls do what they do?

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Reply #80 Top
/me thinks it's a sad, pathetic attempt for attention...most likely someone who is lonely and angry at the world...

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Reply #81 Top
I know who you meant before iben, but the Emperor himself delivered the coup de grace. This is indeed an honour.

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Reply #82 Top
yes Shmoopy your right
Ande thanks for that info

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Reply #83 Top
if they were nice they would get attention

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Reply #84 Top
I also think that for some of these folks, it's a power thing. They can come in here, leave a post like "All this is garbage" and just sit back and watch the carnage. The manipulate us, this gives them power. This also takes power from us. sigh... I don't even know what I'm talking about, but it sounded so good in my head.

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Reply #85 Top
Wolfy darlin' wolf-man ...it was a very good point and I got it.

The trolls get on a 'power high' it's all about getting the 'reaction' and watching it unfold.

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Reply #86 Top
Mr werewolf it sounded good in my head to HE HE

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Reply #87 Top
I would like to change the subject for a min
did any on read my poem at the end of ,sig Freud asked thread ?
I know Weaksid did .I was wondering what people thought about it?

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Reply #90 Top
I wrote it 14 years ago but I just figured out what it ment today

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Now and in the future
when you see me shed
a tear
don't regret or have a fear
because love is
made of tear drops
and I've cried
an ocean full
but now my tears
are tears of joy
the joy I get from you


Wow...that's lovely and DEEP

I'm a poet too...so is ph00ey...I do love poetry...it's the inner sanctum of the mind brought forth with verse...

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Reply #93 Top
lben, are you over at DA? I've read alot of poems over there. I just got to say is there are alot of people that are alone too long
Nothing wrong with it, but I even know it starts effecting the mind. They are called dark poems usually. I might get cocky and post some of my old ones. If I can find them.
Reply #94 Top
So, lben.. What did you figure out what it meant?
Reply #95 Top
a Zen technique from my surfer days: if someone offends you, just mentally visualize them "takin' gas" on a 30 foot wave at the Pipeline. It works surprisingly well.
Reply #97 Top
i figured if you beleave in that stuff and I am on the fence
it is saying that god was lonly

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Reply #98 Top
his tear drops are the rain

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I have an odd technique that has worked wonders for me...

First of all, if someone tries to hurt my feelings or ‘slam’ me I think loving thoughts towards them…I muster up as much love as I can send with my mind…because I know that deep inside…anyone that wants to be so hurtful to another is lost…and needs guidance… I’ve won over many enemies by befriending them…some of my best friends were at first my enemies. Go figure?

It’s not always easy to be positive…we are all human and we make mistakes and we miscalculate or misjudge people but we learn and if we humble ourselves we also know when to apologize and make things right.

Sure, that may sound like a ‘Pollyanna’ attitude but I’m not that type of bleeding heart…I have plenty of fire and fight in me.


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