Topic: Best way to deal with trolls? (Read 2254 times)

1. If it is funny, laugh.
2. You can use sarcasm.
3. Or you can always troll them back.

Ignore him, report him, if none of them isn't working; troll him 

Troll them back!

i have to agree with the consensus here, it's best to probably just ignore them.  if you're bored though, and want a good laugh, try trolling them back somehow.  LOL

Best thing to do is grow a thick skin and ignore the troll!  Most of the time, the troll feeds off of attention.  If you don't give them what they want, they may push a little harder at first to try to invoke you, but most of the time they eventually go away when ignored. 

The only Ccahs you need to watch out for, the Trolls are the biggest famewhores ever, the stronger they become, the more attention you give them.

Ignore trolls. I mostly found others who even quote them which make their post last even the moderators deleted the actual troll post.

you can not prevent - lead the gang

Watch animation film Shrek. No one can deal with him

report if it's social media like Facebook or Twitter, their account will be banned

If everyone is smart enough and doesn’t one pay attention to them,then it’s ok. But if some brawl starts, then 2-3 men who have sharp tongue can make him shut up,as the fact that almost everyone is against makes you calm down.

Ignore them.

Learn the art of ignorance or simply just kill them with kindness. It works for me.

just ignore them then leave with a smile

to deal with trolls you need to troll them much harder. The thing i believe is to fight against evil you need to be more evil.

Ignoring them if they bother too much

For me, the best way is to ignore them. Just let them be. They are all idiots.

Troll them back. Haha. Kidding aside, I guess what you can only do is report and ignore them. There's nothing more you can do about them. Although you can try the dark side thing like hacking and ddos attacks. But I won't recommend it.

how to overcome the troll with ease that they would do it differently than the layman if we already know we ditroll immediately blurred

Best is to ignore them and report them to the moderators. The moderators have the ability to ban them from this forum so they are able to handle the trolls.

Troll too) Trolling and humor is good way to improve the health doctors say

Too ignore them of course!

It depends on what kind of person you are. My husband, for example, very fond of trolls. He immediately starts to troll in response and, it must be said, triumphs usually))) If you are a calm, balanced person and do not like mindless sparings, then, of course, just ignore! And you can laugh at the stupidity of those who spend their lives on bullshit)))

The below ways are the best ways of dealing with trolls

Establish a Policy
When dealing with trolls the first step is to establish a policy for user comments. These policies should clearly detail what kind of comments are allowed and be outlined on your website and social media accounts. If you want an examples of solid comment policies, check out what the Content Marketing Institute, Huffington Post and Mother Jones have created.
2. Ignore Them
Trolls want attention. They want to get you angry, frustrated or uncomfortable. No matter how difficult it might be, simply ignoring a troll could your best tactic because when they don’t get a response, they’ll most likely go away. In fact, according to the Pew Research Center, 60% of respondents opted to ignore online harassment.

Make Let Light of the Situation
Rachel Wisuri states on Social Media Examiner humor is one of the best ways to handle trolls. Wisuri uses Sainsbury’s, a grocery chain in the United Kingdom as an example of using humor to battle trolls after an unsatisfied customer reported that they had purchased chicken that tasted “like it was beaten to death by Hulk Hogan.” The brand replied by using a metaphor, as well as an apology. This was effective because the brand engaged the unhappy customer in a lighthearted manner.
As Rachel states, “When you make light of a troll’s tweet, you simultaneously acknowledge and defuse the situation.”
4. Unmask Them
Don’t Provide a Platform
If you happen to host your own website, you don’t have to approve offensive comments. You can also delete these comments or ban members. Alec Biedrzycki also suggests on HubSpot that you can “disable commenting from your posts to prevent trolling altogether. ” The only problem with this is while you're preventing trolls in the first place, you’re also preventing discussions among your online community.

6. Use Moderators and Online Tools
If you have the resources you may want to consider hiring a team of moderators to monitor activity on your site, blog or forum. These monitors have the power to approve or remove inappropriate comments.

You can also use disemvoweling or hellbanning tools or plugins to battle trolls. Other powerful ways to handle trolls are making use of the Robot9000 tool or the SMC4 software.

7. Create a Unified Community
If you have a loyal online community you may not have to worry much about trolls since the members will monitor themselves. Furthermore, when a troll does appear, your community may take matters into their own hands and drive of the trolls themselves.

Ignore them.

Trolls gets gratification when you give attention to them, whether it is a positive attention or negative attention. So like most of the people around here say, learn the art of ignoring..

The best way is to accept them for what they are and let them be. Ignore them. They're always going to be there.

Ignoring trolls is sometimes very difficult, just easy to say. The best way is showing them that we are enjoying trolls, but not act like them. make some trolls to laugh together, but don't attack their personalities, also not attack our own personality. it will show that we are tough persons.

I think we can just ignore it until a time we are able to overcome the troll.
because I think we will not lose forever, but we wait for the right time to repay.

Best of all just ignore them, more you irritated more they enjoy and more they troll.

I have to apply such things and never respond because ultimately he will feel overwhelmed as well because the troll is just looking for attention
that is
1. Do not respond to the troll
2. Trolls attack the boredom, not you
3. Responding to trolls is a waste of energy
4. Learn to laugh at the situation
5. How to respond when you are already trapped
6. Learn to distinguish trolls with constructing suggestions

Trolling is a punishment for people who are unable to get straight, correct news from real sources but instead prefer to believe whateverthefuck they see first. And what feeds them is "not being able to ignore".

So, as long as you keep learning your facts from reliable sources & not get baited to stupidity, you don't even have to deal with any trolls.

Trolls are stupid , bully are stupid too, just let them be , ignore them.

But sometimes, they will beat you man, you gonna ignore them all the time ?

Just ignore them is the better way... they will never bother you anyway if you just don't mind them...

Talk to them, talk to their dad, their mom, fuck them too. Trolls are not funny with victim like us.

Best way to deal with trolls is don't give a shit about their troll or pranks. They will feel boring and leave you alone.

The best way to deal with a troll is to ignore him/her. Because the troll wants your reaction, they feed upon it (lol). If the trolls are not getting your reaction they will become bored and leave.

Essentially trolls are there to seek attention, once you actually give a hint of attention they actually like it and they will troll you more. Personally i watched trolls die off a thread because of inattention and i see trolls who thrive in a thread that gets alot of comments. That is why i don't go in the comment section of YouTube

ignoring the trolls is the best way to deal with them, remember what they say don't feed the troll!

Just ignore them they'll get tired afterwards.. Trolls are the biggest famewhores ever, they become more powerful the more you pay attention to them. They are just pathetic human being with too much time in their hands and they don't know what to do in their free time.

I think it's best to ignore them.  By talking back, it's almost like you engage them more.  At least that's my experience.

Never speak with idiots, people may not notice the difference. I guess this applies also for trolls.

It does not make sense fighting trolls , the best way to deal with them is just ignore them in what they do , just let them in a way that they wanted to. Trolls are every where , in social media sites , in blog sites and here also in forum there are trolls , they just want someone to interact with them and have their attentions.

Maybe we can make them feel like invisible on a thread for example just continuing the discussion with others and don't care about what the trolls says or posted 

The best way to fight trolls is to completely ignore. If you do not pay attention to them, they quickly calmed down.

just ignore them.

Send them a PM, if they ignore it, move on to the next

Just ignore them for what they do , because if you always keep answering all of their replies or whatever they do they will just continue to troll you , and better to treat them just like nobody or just seeing them as parasites in internet , those always cause trouble tobl other people. You can also get to play along to what they do. Just go with flow.

That gives the trolls power to silence people.   

Just disregard them and do not engage them in a heated discussion.

+1 must report to mod or you could never ban them and also ignore because they need to be repsonsed.

Ignore them. That's what they fear the most; or ban them if you are an administrator

if I think it's better to just ignore them so they can realize that in looking for an opportunity to make people suffer less and less it will make a boredom of its own.

Never lets their words affect you the best way to deal is to ignore them and if you're bored then try an argument with them. I am talking about an healthy argument.

Play along with them till they get bored and give up.

ignoring the trolls is the best way to deal with them, remember what they say don't feed the troll!

it's no sense fighting against a troll, just ignore them.. therefore the expression "don't feed the trolls" which means don't give them input for them to produce output

I simply ignore their immature insults, and persist with logical easy questions without being rude.

Eventually the troll realizes they are not going to win and gives up.

Sometimes it make take a few weeks, depending how much of a persistent troll it is.

Some good posts and responses... its not an easy one to know what to do... here is some good advice about responding to trolls.

While you can’t control whether you will become a troll’s target, you can decide if you will make yourself a troll’s victim. Knowing that the troll’s goal is to embarrass, humiliate, ridicule, demean and shame you, you have a choice about how you are going to react.

You can either be devastated, angry, or whatever emotion they want you to feel, or you can look at the attack for what it is – a mean person being mean. It isn’t personal if you refuse to take it personally. Recognize that the troll is the one with the problem. If the attack is directed at you exclusively, via email or as a comment on your site, document it so you can report the abuse, then delete and forget it.

If the attack is directed at you on a public site, understand that the troll’s “audience” – other participants in the conversation such as forum members, social network contacts or other gamers – can see the troll’s behavior as the vicious attack it is.  We all learned at an early age how to identify mean, nasty people.

Call out their behavior. Many people recommend you simply ignore trolls and don’t respond in any way, but this gives the trolls even more power as it gives them the power to silence you. Instead, ignore the troll but address the problem with the “audience” in a matter of fact way. Do NOT respond in a manner that stoops to the troll’s level or you risk two outcomes: 1) Feeding the troll and engaging in an unwinnable argument that will escalate, or 2) having the “audience” see you as another irritant/troll rather than as the balanced, decent and aggrieved party.

Frame your comment to the group along the lines of “Wow. Looks like we’ve got a troll trying to attack people on this site, derail meaningful dialog and control our conversation. I suggest that this forum doesn’t give them that power by ignoring their unproductive comments and continuing our discussion, or even take a moment to create a guideline for how we want to deal with trolls.”

Understand that where there’s one troll, there may be many more waiting to pounce once the first troll has started. All too frequently, you see cases where others pile on with additional nasty comments. This just means there may be more than one troll that needs ignoring.

Alert the site moderator if there is one, but even on unmediated sites there is usually a “report abuse” feature. Sometimes this is found directly on the discussion page, other times – like with Facebook – you first go to the help center using the help link at the bottom of the page, then select “report abuse,” and file a bullying report.


Do you think this is likely to help?

yeah i dunno... you could come back with good arguments but they usually continue anyways even when proved wrong.. so.... ignore and report or i dunno maybe this is not the best site for that but you could troll them back with some utter nonsense

Just become one of them ! Trolling is Evolution !

feed them

Just ignore all the trolls that you see in you life Thats the bast way to deal with them

This is the correct advice, but sometimes it is very difficult to ignore those who intend to "drink blood" from you. They are trying to get you out of balance and provoke a scandal in many ways. But you must stand firm and calm

I dont trolling... Why i do that?! And my own first name? 

Silence is the best answer.

Simply Ignore them do not give them fuel for their fire

Just ignore them so they will have no fun

I agree with what was said above mostly. If a troll is trolling you he may have a reason or may be for attention-seeking purposes.

Ignoring them makes them feel very, very little, with no power.

Ignore Them... Trolls want attention. They want to get you angry, frustrated or uncomfortable. No matter how difficult it might be, simply ignoring a troll could your best tactic because when they don’t get a response, they’ll most likely go away.
 

I believe that trolls should be simply ignored, because their main goal is to annoy their victim and then laugh at her. When to ignore the trolls, after a while their interest will be lost.

Trolls do find pleasure with the amount of attention they are given. The best way to deal with trolls is to complete ignore them and show facts if and only if necessary to prove your point. Anyways, don't mind them.

Ignore them, trolls find satisfaction by being noticed so the best thing to do is just pretend they werent there at all.

The only way is to ignore

Pretend they aren't there and make sure their posting against the rules before you report them.

You can't take them head on. They are not interested in logical or cordial conversations. They are only here to antagonize. So the way that you deal with them is troll their investments like they do yours. Good luck though, its not easy. It takes a troubled mined to come up with some of the shit they say.

I agree, they were called trolls for a reason so just ignore them.

Be aware of the different troll tactics, and then ignore them.  They feed off getting a rise out of people, don't feed the troll and they will go away.  ...sometimes

Ignore them.   They want attention even when it is negative attention, so if you deprive them of this attention they will eventually get bored and seek the negative attention they are so desperately seeking elsewhere.

Trolls spread lies, deceive and cause damage, and they enjoy every minute they can make someone else miserable. They use internet anonymity to shed their veneer of decency and show their ugly selves and are often found it online forums like Bitcoin Talk. Trolls are basically cyberbullies on steroids – cowards afraid to show their face but nastier and more dedicated than garden-variety bullies.

What do you think is the best way to deal with trolls?

Take them head on or ignore them???