The real way to deal with the vast majority of trolls is to be a mature adult and not place worth in what a stranger thousands of kilometers away thinks or pret

The real way to deal with the vast majority of trolls is to be a mature adult and not place worth in what a stranger thousands of kilometers away thinks or pretends to think about you. If a stranger screams at you for being a 'fag' or whatever in real life, it's not a situation you can easily avoid and there can be very real physical threat attached to it. Online, you have a block button and more often than not plenty of options to go private. I think the suggestion of 'non-anonymity' is incredibly unsound, too. The normalization of using your real life details on the net has not improved trolling, it has allowed it to far more easily slip off of the internet and cause real life problems if you happen to meet someone who believes they're acting with moral indignation.