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Trolls
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:43 pm
by Travis
I am getting tougher on these trolls. I deleted this last obvious troll, Iron Mike aka Chirstina aka Janice aka Betty Goat aka Crystal. I set it so all new users need to be apporved by me or Taco before posting. Hope we can keep this board on topic, other than this troll, this board is going Great and I love the dicussions!
Re: Trolls
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:48 pm
by Hikin_Jim
Here, here.
Re: Trolls
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:09 pm
by Rob
Re: Trolls
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:10 pm
by HikeUp
Many thanks for your efforts.
Re: Trolls
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:12 pm
by AlanK
It's sad that such measures are necessary. On the other hand, the moderator of another hiking board always says that the effort devoted to screening gets to be quite small once the trolls figure out that they are not tolerated.
Re: Trolls
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:15 pm
by Mike P
Thanks, Travis! Good work on your end.
Re: Trolls
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:03 pm
by KathyW
Re: Trolls
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:04 pm
by KathyW
sorry, i couldn't help it - that's what i picture every time i see trolls mentioned
Re: Trolls
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:10 am
by Hikin_Jim
Perhaps this is a little closer to the reality.
Re: Trolls
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:22 am
by AlanK
Re: Trolls
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:40 am
by RichardK
Thanks for your efforts!! Now, if it would only rain, we could actually hike the San Gabriels.
Re: Trolls
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:05 pm
by HikeUp
RichardK wrote:Thanks for your efforts!! Now, if it would only rain, we could actually hike the San Gabriels.
Maybe it will rain if we sacrifice a troll to the rain gods!
Re: Trolls
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:26 pm
by Hikin_Jim
Interesting links. This explanation
Why do trolls do it?
I believe that most trolls are sad people, living their lonely lives vicariously through those they see as strong and successful.
Disrupting a stable newsgroup gives the illusion of power, just as for a few, stalking a strong person allows them to think they are strong, too.
For trolls, any response is 'recognition'; they are unable to distinguish between irritation and admiration; their ego grows directly in proportion to the response, regardless of the form or content of that response.
Trolls, rather surprisingly, dispute this, claiming that it's a game or joke; this merely confirms the diagnosis; how sad do you have to be to find such mind-numbingly trivial timewasting to be funny?
Remember that trolls are cowards; they'll usually post just enough to get an argument going, then sit back and count the responses (Yes, that's what they do!).
Makes a great deal of sense.
