Posted by Gabbi-x-2 on May 25, 2005, at 13:45:25
In reply to Dealing with trolls, posted by crushedout on May 25, 2005, at 12:38:01
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> We've been over this before but I think we may need a review. How best to deal with "trolls," i.e., people who come to a site to provoke, annoy, and otherwise take out their hostilities on perfectly nice strangers.
>I think, the troll strategy is rarely effective because there's rarely a unanimous agreement on
who is a troll. I've never been a "do gooder" in that I feel I must be nice to those others dislike, simply because others dislike them. I don't think there's any purpose to that. However, because I've often valued the input of those others find to be generally offensive, I've frequently been seen as one. Conversely, (and not just on this board) I've often found thepeople/things, that most people love, to be extremely distateful.
I think, especially because we do have the civility guidelines, there is room for people to be themselves here.
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