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PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: Carnos Jax
Date: September 29, 2023 07:14AM
You’re only rewarding them for their behavior…..instead let their threads wither to irrelevance with a post count of “1”.
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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: gabester
Date: September 29, 2023 07:30AM
But it's so hard to resist when a troll posts something really incendiary and/or ignorantly misguided!



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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: Mr645
Date: September 29, 2023 07:31AM
troll=someone with a different opinion?

Sounds like you're a fascist



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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: Carnos Jax
Date: September 29, 2023 07:43AM
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gabester
But it's so hard to resist when a troll posts something really incendiary and/or ignorantly misguided!

Yes, that is exactly what they’re hoping for.
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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: gadje
Date: September 29, 2023 07:57AM
see my pledge a few weeks ago.

It Works!
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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: pdq
Date: September 29, 2023 08:54AM
With the steady, ongoing implosion of all things Trump in the real world, I would say mr645 seems to be getting worse by the day.

Understandable, I suppose. The reason I (sometimes) respond is to just point out most of what he says is easily disproved.

But perhaps it is best to ignore him. He’s likely to go around the bend when he sees what’s going to happen to Trump going forward.
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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: Mr645
Date: September 29, 2023 09:01AM
Imploding? Polls show his lead over Biden, Desantis is growing



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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: September 29, 2023 10:10AM
I’ve been saying this for a while now.



It is what it is.
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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: hal
Date: September 29, 2023 10:23AM
Every time someone says 'don't feed the trolls' I run a search to see if they have a history of feeding trolls. They always do. But 'now' they see the light and want everyone else to as well - now.

it's just not possible. Just as you see the light, someone else breaks their silence.
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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: wurm
Date: September 29, 2023 10:26AM
It still surprises me that anyone would even reply at all to said threads. The quickest way to a thread to die is to see a post count of 1.

While I admit that I often do look, it's as much to see who replies and why they bother. It's best to just scroll right past anything posted by the author one objects to. Then there's no temptation to try to refute something not even worthy of your time.
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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: Numo
Date: September 29, 2023 12:30PM
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Carnos Jax
You’re only rewarding them for their behavior…..instead let their threads wither to irrelevance with a post count of “1”.

Great advice. Responding to trolls accomplishes nothing because they are cult members who are by definition incapable of changing their minds. It also spares you from wasting your time and needless aggravation - so what’s not to like?
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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: Speedy
Date: September 29, 2023 12:31PM
I an unaware of any trolls posting to this forum (and I have no one blocked). Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, no matter how wrong or misguided.



Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where the weather is wonderful even when it isn't.
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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: Lux Interior
Date: September 29, 2023 12:53PM
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wurm
While I admit that I often do look

Oh, I always look. I need a good laugh once in a while.

Glad they removed the view counter on this side.
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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: PeterB
Date: September 29, 2023 01:06PM
user ignored - click to show/hide this message




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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: btfc
Date: September 29, 2023 01:34PM
Interesting theory, but where’s your evidence? dunno smiley


A simple assertion doesn’t cut it.


Lots of folks ignored tRump’s lies and B.S., how’d that work out?
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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: jonny
Date: September 29, 2023 01:42PM
I think we all know the difference between a contributing member and a troll. A contributing member post something that they think community, which they know quite well, might find interesting, enjoyable, or informative. A troll post something that they think the community, which they know quite well, will find erroneous, triggering, or combative. Which do you choose to be?
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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: jdc
Date: September 29, 2023 01:52PM
Im guilty of it from time to time, like the last couple of days.

takes only a minute, meh, takes my time away from work for second. I don't expect a rational answer. =)

after I usually hit up yt and watch some jordan klepper interviews at Drumpf rallies. always laughable.





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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: DinerDave
Date: September 29, 2023 03:24PM
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Lux Interior
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wurm
While I admit that I often do look

Oh, I always look. I need a good laugh once in a while.

Glad they removed the view counter on this side.

Yup, that's how I feel.

Dave



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Many have eaten here....

Few have died
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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: Carnos Jax
Date: September 29, 2023 06:20PM
Just to be clear, I'm referencing threads they start, not so much their responses in other threads.
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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: zachdog
Date: September 29, 2023 10:41PM
I have ignored such threads started by trolls for months. I don’t even open each thread. IGNORE THEM.
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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: August West
Date: September 29, 2023 11:50PM
I'd like to express a bit of a meta view. Threads such as this are simply more food.

Isn't the request for no response actually a response in and of itself?



“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in."

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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: Carnos Jax
Date: September 30, 2023 02:55AM
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August West
I'd like to express a bit of a meta view. Threads such as this are simply more food.

Agreed



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August West
Isn't the request for no response actually a response in and of itself?

No
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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: RAMd®d
Date: September 30, 2023 04:28PM
Isn't the request for no response actually a response in and of itself?


No.

As opposed to any response to a troll initiated post is feeding a troll.

That is not ignoring someone; nah nah nah I can't hear you is still a response.

One can't stop a troll from joining a thread as long as there's no violation of MRF's TOS.

One doesn't have to respond to the incursion, nor participate in a thread initiated by a troll.

But as these pleas don't work since someone or multiple someone's don't observe the request, subsequent requests are made, and predictably — ignored.

And a meal is served.

Rinse, repeat.






I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.
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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: August West
Date: September 30, 2023 10:04PM
I think a troll's ego and goals receive satisfaction by threads such as this; they have provoked a userbase to lavish attention on them. To me, the logical step ti ignoring a troll is to actually ignore them in toto.

Chacun son goût.



“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in."

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Re: PSA: Please Do Not Feed Trolls By Participating In Their Threads
Posted by: RAMd®d
Date: October 01, 2023 12:44AM
I think a troll's ego and goals receive satisfaction by threads such as this


I agree, to the extent that it a) drags on (guilty as charged) and b) that people keep making the same requests over and over and they kept getting ignored or noted and ignored.

Rinse and repeat.

I'm out.






I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.
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