313ghazi
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Recently there has been a spike in trolling on this forum. There are a couple of Israeli members doing it, and quite a few Indians. I have suggestions on how to best handle this, all whilst continuing to have decent discussion on our forum.
1. Don't feed the troll.
2. Don't feed the troll.
3. Don't feed the troll. I cannot emphasise this enough. Trolls say things in order to derail topics and to get reactions. Sometimes they'll be blatent in what they do, other times they'll make a snide remark that on the face of it is in tune with the topic, but in actuality is an attempt to derail topics. Do not reply or engage with the trolls.
4. Click the report button. Every time you see trolling report it. Give admin and mods a real idea of how prevalent it is.
5. If you can't help yourself, use the ignore feature, ignore people you don't like.
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This simple steps will mean mods have greater awareness of who is trolling and where, trolling will be less effective on the forum, we'll have better conversations in topics and the forum experience will be improved for everyone.
1. Don't feed the troll.
2. Don't feed the troll.
3. Don't feed the troll. I cannot emphasise this enough. Trolls say things in order to derail topics and to get reactions. Sometimes they'll be blatent in what they do, other times they'll make a snide remark that on the face of it is in tune with the topic, but in actuality is an attempt to derail topics. Do not reply or engage with the trolls.
4. Click the report button. Every time you see trolling report it. Give admin and mods a real idea of how prevalent it is.
5. If you can't help yourself, use the ignore feature, ignore people you don't like.
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This simple steps will mean mods have greater awareness of who is trolling and where, trolling will be less effective on the forum, we'll have better conversations in topics and the forum experience will be improved for everyone.