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How do you deal with trolls online?

Ok so we all know what online trolls are right? Simply put these are people that behave terribly online, in a way that is bullying and offensive to others.

Very often these trolls will target one specific person and be incredibly derogatory and nasty to them. Every time this person posts anything somewhere the trolls attack.

Trolls like social media and also hang around on online forums.

Have you ever been the victim of a troll? Or have you come across trolls behaving badly on your own website or maybe your Facebook page?

And if you have dealt with trolls how did you deal with them?

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dragonwolf5589
To be honest I just completely ignore them and report them to the website or block them if I have the control (eg I own the site or a moderator etc) . they want responses, they always say "never feed a troll".

But like you said they always follow you but you can block or ban them. and if this is on your own website, use a spam filter as well. especially if they use certain keywords it may help lower it? Otherwise just ignore it and delete/block/ban the troll

sadly its impossible to stop it completly unless you know who it is and report it to the police. country depending that is - here in the UK a troll is officially a criminal and its against the law.. so if its a certain person constantly trolling you and you work out who it is you can get them arrested and charged for harassment trolling!

the hard part is tracking down who they are.



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Lynne
I have had a few of them on one of my Facebook pages and I just banned all those users, it was awful.

Fortunately I haven't had any trolls on my website. I have encountered a few of them on other people's forums before and I just report if I can and then ignore them but I haven't really had any be a troll towards me much.



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procoder
Trolls are everywhere these days especially on Facebook and Youtube. I've never been victim of trolls and I think that I'll never be attacked by them, but seriously I don't care even if I would be their target. But I've seen a lot of news where people committed suicide just because of trolls, most of them take trolls as funny things, but it's not that funny to make someone's life miserable.

Internet trolls can't be stopped, but the right thing to do is to not feed the troll.



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Lynne
Oh yeah then I have actually had a few trolls on Youtube... but really they engaged big time with me and made my channel comments an engaging place to be so I think they helped me with my rankings LOL

But yeah Procoder I know exactly what you mean, there are some people that get very badly affected by the behavior of trolls and it is sad.



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procoder
Haha, well yeah that's true Lynne, trolls are not always a negative thing, some people are famous just because of trolls. Imagine if your photo will become the next viral meme on Facebook, that does mean free advertising for you. lol How do you deal with trolls online?



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Lynne
Yeah that would be way cool!



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idealmike
Trolls, troglodytes and Rick rolls. They're the scourge of the Internet! They serve no purpose other than to offend other people. They hide behind their computer screens. They do what they do in an attempt to fill an empty hole in their own life. Most often than not, a troll will troll someone else out of nothing but pure jealousy. Such as those trolls that troll rich people, celebs and famous Instagrammers. They can't even begin to see the same level of success as those people so they retaliate by trolling them. By leaving derogatory remarks on their posts and updates, videos and pictures and things. And in most cases, they are just petty, childish people with no real moral fiber at all.

Some trolls take things a level further though. Some trolls troll people who don't deserve to be trolled. Such as someone who has lost someone due to some tragic event that was beyond their control. Such as Jamie Bulger's mum or Madeleine McCann's mum. Doing that is just despicable on every level and shows the depravity of these people who have no real moral fiber or any goodness bout them at all.

I think anyone that has used any large forum or runs a large blog or forum of some kind has come across trolls and trolling at some point. They pick at things you say and leer you into a pointless waste of time conversation that only serves one purpose and that is to waste your time and deflate you so they can laugh and smirk about it on the other side of the screen.

The best way to deal with forum trolls is to just report them and hopefully, if the owners/moderators are savvy and quick to respond, they will just ban/delete their account. And when it's on your blog, you can usually identify what's a genuine comment and what's a troll comment and just not approve them and go one step further and ban/block their IP from accessing your site again.

Unfortunately, until we are required to provide validated ID, finger print scans, retina eye scans and DNA scanning as part of a sign up process to any website, be it a forum or some social media site, we'll never be able to truly get rid of them. But it's their antics that will cause this to happen so that one day, you wont be able to join a forum or social media site with just an email address alone. You'll be required to provide some other form of ID that can trace you back to your address so that you can be arrested for it.

Until then, please don't feed the trolls!
How do you deal with trolls online?



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Lynne
LOL Mike well said. You know I think I have quite a thick skin because I thought I hadn't been trolled and I forgot about all those nasty comments I got on my website and Youtube for a number of scams I reviewed this year... one guy even went so far as to insult my parents.. who he obviously doesn't know.

I can brush it off easily and it doesn't bother me at all, but that said there are lots of people that are very sensitive and take it hard. And like you say there are some people that are targeted in the most horrific ways.

The reason they are probably targeted is because these trolls have a power play thing going on and they want to hit someone where it hurts, they want to see a result from their trolling activities.

Yes ignoring them as far as possible is best because they will then just move on to the next victim.



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Everett
I love trolls! They view websites, view videos, comment on your content, and do so much more for you! Think of trolls as people that will comment or view your content regularly. I have had a few trolls that went above and beyond, and basically created more traffic for a website than i ever could imagine.

However, there is trolls, and then there is hackers. From my experience, trolling sometimes leads to hacking. I'm not sure of what the connection is, but it is there. Does anyone else see this too? For an example, you will get a troll on your blog, and they will comment on every article with trollish comments, and then a few days later you'll see a message on your website saying something like "Lulzsec was here. @lulsec".

Thoughts
I think a lot of malicious individuals are trolls because they have problems in their life, and don't know how to express themself so they just create havoc for others. Trolls generally don't care, and have no remorse, but do they really?



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Lynne
Haha Everett YES YES!

I have a few faithful trolls that follow me and trash me on my Youtube videos, but this is engagement and Google loves engagement! Even when they click the thumbs down it is telling Google my content is getting noticed!



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EliteWriter
You find these kinds of people in real life. So having them online is basically the same. The only thing is that they tend to be a bit more aggressive because they have the possibility of hiding behind their screens, rather than face you. So, many tend to be equally aggressive when dealing with them I guess. You cannot spend too much time dealing with them as if you get into that habit you are going to waste a considerable amount of time that you could have put to better use. So I generally would prefer to let them be. As others said above, they are still traffic.



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Lynne
Yes, traffic is traffic no matter whether they are a troll or not! How do you deal with trolls online?



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Cristian
Well, I don't really deal with them. Sometimes I used them in my advantage, traffic is traffic and trolls can do all of your promotion work if you are clever enough and have an interesting enough niche and topic to get them started on.

I personally love the trolling culture, it's fun and hilarious and I think people that are offended should just learn to grow thicker skin. Life is tough, same as the Internet.



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Lynne
LOL Yes Cristian, a few trolls have found me and they certainly liven up my content! They even share my content and say something like "Geez look at this stupid woman?" haha, how clickable is that?

I personally love my trolls for this reason.



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Cristian
Well, there is no such thing as negative publicity right? And you are always going to have haters, no matter your niche, no matter what you are doing, people will exist that think your work sucks. We must understand that and never give up.



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Barida
There is no better way to deal with trolls than to see them as jokes that are being passed around on the internet. I've see friends that got really angry as a result of trolls passed across them, but it doesn't matter to me as long as it is a troll is that na for office be that.



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Corzhens
The trolls that I encounter is more on social media. Just recently, I received 3 messages from people I don’t know. Two of them were asking for a number, saying I might give them a lucky number. Maybe for the lotto? I really don’t know. The other one is about a sick relative that is needing financial help. To think that I don’t even know them, I consider them trolls or scammers. What I do is to block them so they cannot send me messages anymore.



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