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To feed or not to feed trolls?

Posted on 05/27/2014 6:18:14 PM PDT by nomad

Have you ever followed a link to the source article and found a dedicated troll attempting to disrupt the thread? My suggestion is this, ask the respondents to please refrain from commenting back. If you ignore the progressive anus, they tend to go away so as I like to post just beneath the spouting rectum`s written diarrhea: DON`T FEED THE TROLLS. Maybe some will get the hint!


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On left wing sites, it is easy to become a “troll”, or at least completely hijack any thread. All ya gotta do is somehow regardless of what the topic of the thread is, somehow bring Sarah Palin’s name into it. No matter the topic, the entire conversation becomes about Sarah Palin every single time without exception.


41 posted on 05/27/2014 7:47:48 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%i)
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To: ComputerGuy

“My pascal bled into my c+!”


42 posted on 05/27/2014 7:49:36 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare
If I only had a compiler smart enough to know what I mean.
43 posted on 05/27/2014 7:55:29 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (BS, MS, PhD and a BMF besides)
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To: kaehurowing

My favorite response is to simply post below their most current response, DON`T FEED THE TROLLS. It has helped to slow or reduce responses, and even eliminate them, thereby chasing away less dedicated trolls.


44 posted on 05/27/2014 7:56:14 PM PDT by nomad
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To: Darksheare

Alright, you win.


45 posted on 05/27/2014 7:57:47 PM PDT by nomad
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To: nomad

Yelling troll back and forth is a troll tactic. In fact calling a troll a troll is feeding the troll.

Worrying that a troll is ruining the thread is also feeding the troll because part of what they are trying to do is get into your head.


46 posted on 05/27/2014 8:02:18 PM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: nomad

I have no idea what I won, so this toaster over here and I will be taking a walk.
/ kidding.

Third shift is boring tonight.
Absolutely nothing going on here at the moment.
How about over your way?


47 posted on 05/27/2014 8:09:41 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: ComputerGuy

Yeah.
But not as arrogant as windows updater turning automatic updates on all by itself.


48 posted on 05/27/2014 8:11:39 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare

About to go to bed, have the day off tomorrow.


49 posted on 05/27/2014 9:54:56 PM PDT by nomad
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To: dangerdoc

I`m not actually trying to communicate with the troll in question but with any potential respondents who just finished reading that trolls response.


50 posted on 05/27/2014 9:57:33 PM PDT by nomad
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To: nomad

I gotta sit here and watch a bunch of trucks.
Wheeeee.
Rest well, see everyone tomorrow-ish.


51 posted on 05/27/2014 10:03:05 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: nomad

So I'm trolling. What's the big deal?

52 posted on 05/27/2014 10:04:47 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: nomad

Question? As disgusting as “progressive” trolls are, wouldn’t those you are talking about be more aptly called a Borg? They are part of one collective mind- they have not one original thought or idea between them. They lack most, if not all human ethics and virtues. They are arrogant and witless enough to state dogma that boils down to-All resistance is futile! You will be absorbed!

And so on... They are mindless drones that cannot function without explicit directions. At least trolls can function on their own.

(ornery grins)


53 posted on 05/27/2014 10:33:41 PM PDT by hearthwench (Debbi - Mom, NaNa, and always ornery)
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To: nomad

Thank-you!

We all need to put trolls on mental ignore and not feed them!


54 posted on 05/28/2014 3:44:17 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

True.


55 posted on 05/28/2014 3:45:13 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: Biggirl

For me its especially fun then on the Southern history threads. :-)


56 posted on 05/28/2014 6:38:39 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Biggirl
It`s just getting so bad lately, gotta be the upcoming elections and their knowledge that they`re gonna get the snot beat out of them. Pity RINOs will be the ones winning!
57 posted on 05/28/2014 7:27:50 AM PDT by nomad
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To: willywill
without trolls, all we are is a cheering section.

True, and once in a blue moon they can give us a useful perspective on an issue. It is helpful to know your enemy.

58 posted on 05/28/2014 8:16:31 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Your mother wears army boots.


In Russia you don’t say “Your mother wears army boots.”

[pause]

Because she does.

[pause]

And she will hurt you.

(Yakov Smirnoff)


59 posted on 05/28/2014 12:37:38 PM PDT by Peet (Liberals are the feces that are created when shame eats too much stupid. -Dale Gribble)
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To: digger48
"Trolls can be identified by the fact that they wear nothing but a green paper plate over their genitals and a red plastic cup on their head."

"Sounds like fun! I like twolls - but can I use a pink paper pwate?"


60 posted on 05/28/2014 12:50:18 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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