when you engage with the trolls

[MitchiestInge]

. . . is it a personal thing (actually engaging emotionally) or are you communicating with a wider, more silent audience or are there other motivations?

I can't work out why more people don't ignore them, but every now and then the exchanges are unintentionally funny or interesting - although mostly it gets very dull very quickly. Wondering what's in it for them too.

the best thing would be if we were allowed to shoot them

fun and humane and who would miss them, really?

Babyheave

I don't think I want one either. I think the trolls will rip the piss out of it and it will lead to people hiding posters they just disagree or who are perhaps presenting robust/solid arguments. The result of which will be that the threads where a few posters hide a few other posters will become a mess.

If feels like an unsatisfactory solution to dealing with the rudeness and entitlement of some of the people who feel they can come here to disrupt. It may also lead to fewer people bothering to report posts that really should be deleted.

oh, I dunno now ! < cross >

maybe it would be worth a try

or are we at least allowed to set the dogs on them?

Are you dithering AF? In the manner of a Jaffa Cake?

oh yes, I am neither one nor the other now

damn you, BC, and your bloody informed argument

and LG, you had me too

< wibble >

I'd like hide poster. I'd only use it on those who are frankly boring.

Let's just TRY it though? For a short time. And we can see how it works out?

I am scared

I don't like change

@AnyFucker

take that mask off, helen, you are scaring us !

oh, you're not wearing one...

< runs >

then can we burn them try something else, if it doesn't work?

ohhh bugger

Is it me or is there just a couple of trolls with various sock puppets? It must be so exhausting for them.

I think there are two members of the nutter's special forum, aren't there? It's probably them, with a couple of IDs each, who post while "conferencing" on the phone and giggling like a pair of 13 year olds.

well lets see on feminist board
been called troll
derailer
have you been drinking (hehe was 0920am i was at work)
oh da menz

see a fair few shout troll/derailer/oh the menz as strategy to divert and not discuss topics they wish not too.its become a standard technique.passive aggressive

lol,i had one rock up and instruct oh dont bother talk to scottishmummy

but that's probably just a Scottish thing, I've seen Braveheart and they were all quite fighty

this is about actual trolls

@ Braveheart being quite fighty

well ive actually been called troll+++
folk too quick on the feminist board to get hump and name call troll etc
or put a call out to pals to pile in

< waits for sm to explode into incomprehensible sputtering >

not at all
but one of the sistas can pile in maybe with TROOOOOOOOOOOOOll

uh-huh the creepy wee self referential brackets
now we are in business

you ain't a troll, sm, stop trying to take the trolly-credit

what are your thoughts on Lemon Puffs, btw

do they have such things in your country ?

you know you're not a troll though

but now am imagining an actual troll with a blue face and angry orange hair