Please stop responding to our resident TROLL JohnA troll like John needs YOU to respond. YOU are his drug. He cannot exist without your interaction with him.
STOP FEEDING THE TROLL
John is literally the definition of an internet troll. Please refrain from responding. Better yet, report him from excessive bashing when he posts or simply put him on ignore.
Lets stop letting him have power on this message board.
TROLL: to antagonize (others) online by deliberately posting inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments or other disruptive content. Also notorious, for trolling message boards on the internet, posting as a source of information when the goal is to undermine the truth. Internet troll
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In Internet slang, a troll is a person who starts flame wars or intentionally upsets people on the Internet by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses and normalizing tangential discussion, either for the troll's amusement, or to achieve a specific result such as disrupting a rival's online activities, undermining the truth or manipulating a political process.
Some readers may characterize a post as trolling, while others may regard the same post as a legitimate contribution to the discussion, even if controversial. Like any pejorative term, it can be used as an ad hominem attack, suggesting a negative motivation.
Experienced participants in online forums know that the most effective way to discourage a troll is usually to ignore them, because responding tends to encourage trolls to continue disruptive posts – hence the often-seen warning: "Please don't feed the trolls" Jump to navigationJump to search