>If all this crap is, in your estimation, the work of a handful of infiltrating, leftist trolls... then why does everyone else on such threads usually “LOL” along, leaving me usually as one of only a handful or freepers (or sometimes the only one) objecting?
Even on the infamous “pulled thread”, there were VERY few people objecting (no more than 2 or 3, IIRC) and literally dozens, maybe more, either actively agreeing and “LOL”ing along or, at the very least, not objecting at all?<
Some of us, saquin, watched in disgust as the banned poster kept writing totally inappropriate, racially tinged comments, to which you replied. From where I sat, at least, every time you snapped at her, she just had to post some racist bile right back at you.
Could it be that you didn’t see the pattern? Might SOME of that language been avoided, had you kept your fingers still, or simply hit the abuse button on that fool instead of going on and on self-righteously? Some individuals used self-control, and didn’t encourage the trolls by giving them the argument they obviously craved. They simply alerted the moderators who pulled the offensive posts.
There is a reason for the very well-known saying around the internet, “don’t feed the trolls”.
I hit the abuse button but I also feel it’s important to confront people like that, instead of letting them go unanswered. If it was a case of just one random racist troll, yes, I’d say the best answer is to just hit abuse and ignore. But that’s not the case. It’s usually more than one person plus a cheering squad... and they all didn’t just sign up yesterday. All of us have to confront them, if we want them to know that’s not what we believe here, instead of just letting one of us do it and take all the heat. Just my opinion.