> If your community is ignoring trolls instead of banning them, it's effectively sending the message that the trolls are very welcome. I have never seen it pla

> If your community is ignoring trolls instead of banning them, it's effectively sending the message that the trolls are very welcome. I have never seen it play out that way in practice. > I've never observed that a no-moderation community is free of trolls I've never observed community with moderation and no trolls. You will not ever eliminate them completely, so better approach seems to be ignore them and just ban outright spam. And I did observe almost unmoderated community that had trolls, nobody cared about them, and everything was fine. > very large amount of people simply do not enjoy ... I think you are doing a lot of projection here. Maybe people agree with you, but considering how broken are your arguments I would not take your sweeping generalizations seriously.