Trolls, or trolling behaviour ...how do we deal with these isues as an online community?

@High Seas,

High Seas wrote:

Of course everyone had him on ignore everywhere

pretty bold statement to make, but then you do know everything , or so you seem to believe

and nice move posting someone's information (real or not)

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@djjd62,

yeah.

that's classy...

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@msolga,

It's not as bad as all that, Ms Olga - here's what the latest page on your whale thread looks like to me - starting with your own last post there:

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Signature Everybody knows that the boat is leaking .. Everybody knows that the captain lied ... (Leonard Cohen)
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Hehehehehehehehehe . . .
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You see the ignorees (or possibly a single ignoree in this case) take hardly any space on the page - no loss of continuity for the really interesting threads.

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ahhhh, high seas doesn't like me

i may cry

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@High Seas,

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You see the ignorees (or possibly a single ignoree in this case) take hardly any space on the page

Yeah, sure.

But what was the discussion about, again? Wink

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@msolga,

Your own thread on whales, as I just said, starting with your own post, here:
http://able2know.org/topic/109975-42#post-3939893

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@msolga,

ha

plus he/she/it missed my spendius line that made set chuckle

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@High Seas,

and while we are on the subject of class, High seas.

Please simply ignore me rather than running to thumb down a page of my thread next time, eh...

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@Amigo,

Amigo wrote:

Yes, I understand totally. I guess i'm a different kind of troll. Sounds like a waste of time, following somebody that doesn't like you around.

Amigo got it right - as did Cycl on this thread>
http://able2know.org/topic/139217-5#post-3923562
> and excerpt from the reply:

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...No, I didn't brute-force it, just added the likely suspects to my ignore list. Now I've another Q, how do I get rid of a stalker? Don't care about post downgrading, but don't want people already on my ignore list following me around - find it annoying, bordering on spooky. Specifically, got this e-mail:.....

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@msolga,

I agree it's a pain in the bum, and I wish the rubbish still got taken out, but there it is. It ain't going to happen, and I think there is a lot you can do to make it less worse for yourself.

I think your lovely, reasonable tone works wonders and renders your threads a delight....but you're right...for SOME people it merely acts as encouragement for their antics.

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@dlowan,

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I agree it's a pain in the bum, and I wish the rubbish still got taken out, but there it is. It ain't going to happen, and I think there is a lot you can do to make it less worse for yourself.

I think your lovely, reasonable tone works wonders and renders your threads a delight....but you're right...for SOME people it merely acts as encouragement for their antics.

Deb, I think I'm beyond caring. Which might not be too bad a thing at all.

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@msolga,

You'll see, MsOlga, once you put these culprits on ignore, you're far less annoyed with their lesser evils. Reading them on a repetitive basis, irks you
more than you think. Once they're on ignore, they're out of your mind and
soon forgotten. Ignorance can be bliss Wink

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@CalamityJane,

CalamityJane wrote:

You'll see, MsOlga, once you put these culprits on ignore, you're far less annoyed with their lesser evils. Reading them on a repetitive basis, irks you
more than you think. Once they're on ignore, they're out of your mind and
soon forgotten. Ignorance can be bliss

Worth repeating.........................

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@High Seas,

yeah.

life is so much nicer when everything you see agrees with your own 3 foot universe...

good luck and be safe out there.

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@Rockhead,

amen

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@dlowan,

I agree with CJ...if you can stop reading them, you'll be way happier.

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@msolga,

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. & what advice to someone whose put a fair amount of effort into a thread discussion, it's going pretty well, only to see a troll or troll/s deliberately & continuously flood it with irrelevant unpleasant material, which makes if almost inoperable.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, with no rancor. MsOlga, you pick and choose, you can go on and on with folks, [I could name them], but that's not the point, off topic as far as anyone gets and then you simply proceed with your thread.

No one is stalking anyone. 'stalking' entails that the stalkee never engages the stalker, that the stalkee is fearful for their very existence. Calling someone a stalker is just another inaccurate childish taunt that got thrown out and made into a big deal for its 15 minutes. That's over.

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@dlowan,

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MsO: Probably supporting the "wrong view" (ie not theirs) , or something.

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dlowan: I get more pissed off these days with those who won't ignore them, and who continue to debate them,

Come on, you two, locked arm in arm, standing at the front of the demonstration.

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@dlowan,

dlowan wrote:

I agree with CJ...if you can stop reading them, you'll be way happier.

Yes; I have found that to be the case.

David

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@djjd62,

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i sniped at jtt in walter's viking thread a couple of times and then left, because the subject interested me and i didn't want to derail it to any great extent

It wasn't Walter's thread, O great observant one.

Why didn't you "snipe" at Setanta for immediately going off topic with some inaccurate drivel and then Merry, whose thread it was, for moving him along in a direction that was clearly off topic.

There's just too many whiners who think that what they do is A-okay but what others do, those who aren't on side, is trolling, stalking, or whatever other childish sling is current.

You hate me, djjd, fine by me. I don't hate you.

I can't think of anyone I hate, here at A2K or anywhere. I simply have a low tolerance for dishonesty and hypocrisy, something you generally are not guilty of.

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