"If you ignore them then huge swathes of people will simply blindly believe anything the trolls say no matter how wrong or weird it is. I guess it's a guy thing

"If you ignore them then huge swathes of people will simply blindly believe anything the trolls say no matter how wrong or weird it is. I guess it's a guy thing where they'll just believe whoever's tallest, and "tall" on a forum is who's most obnoxious and writes the most." This is a textbook example of a vocal minority. And social psychologists know their effects well: http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/07/loudest-voice-majority-opinion.php http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/07/loudest-voice-majority-opin...