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I used to manage a few online communities and you're always going to have trolls. Here's some ways you can control them. 1 - Moderate comments and remove any c

I used to manage a few online communities and you're always going to have trolls. Here's some ways you can control them. 1 - Moderate comments and remove any comments you don't like. Make a rule that all comments need to be approved before they will be posted. This will cut down on about 60% of the stuff you'll see. 2 - Shadwo ban users: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning 3 - If Shadow Banning doesn't work, then target and block their IP addresses. If you need to, warn them you will contact their ISP and let them know. These are the big three that always seemed to limit the trolling behavior I saw. Only in extreme cases do you have to do #3.

Nomentatus 9y ago
Note that the worst, and most sophisticated trolls will just keep a second well-behaved account to monitor the actual forum as others see it; so it won't be more powerful than a ban to them. Forcing you to 3) as you say. Someday we'll have shadow banning deluxe - not only will the troll be seeing a different forum, but they alone will see fake A.I. generated responses to them that will cause the troll to waste endless amounts of their time continuing to troll-debate. Time they can't spend buggering around with someone else's forum. Sadly, by that time, we'll also see A.I. auto-troll-programs appearing in large numbers.