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Don't feed them?

• rfreytag 11y ago
  That means everyone has to get on board with your excellent advice. Not likely, sadly. The article hopes to offer an advance in troll detection technology based more on reason than hope. ;-)
• vkou 11y ago
  That doesn't work. They are perfectly happy to revel in the attention of their friends. http://freethoughtblogs.com/almostdiamonds/2012/02/28/dont-feed-the-trolls-is-bad-science/ http://freethoughtblogs.com/almostdiamonds/2012/02/28/dont-f...
  • mdip 11y ago
    This is what caused me to wonder if allowing trolls, but eliminating their conversation from everyone but other trolling users might be an option. Let them revel in the attention of their friends, but have that attention only serve to give them the illusion that they're affecting others while directly causing others to ignore them (and thus, prevent unintentional feeding). It'd be tricky to get right and probably not worth the energy in most places, but would be interesting to see and study the results.
    • CM30 11y ago
      So in other words, like a multi user version of Shadowbanning? It's an interesting idea (and I'm 100% sure it's been done before), but it doesn't really work out on any site with a significant audience. I mean, all you need is one of those trolls to access the site at work/school/wherever and notice their posts are being shown if they're not logged in, and then suspicions are raised. Too easy to bypass and figure out. It's like how people figured out Twitter's shadowbans, because people who followed them said off site that they weren't seeing their messages.