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What few people understand is that by responding you are also elevating the engagement score of the ridiculous take and ensuring it gets in front of many more e
by miguelgrinberg 4y ago
What few people understand is that by responding you are also elevating the engagement score of the ridiculous take and ensuring it gets in front of many more eyes.
- wellanyway 4y agoYep. Especially if the reply is a video reaction. Like, congratulations, you are giving platform to the worst things you could find out there.
- pohl 4y agoThis heavily depends on which forum one is on, and is therefore not true in general.
- watwut 4y agoWe used to have "don't feed the trolls" mantra and the things indeed were more peaceful. The people opposing what trolls said were blamed more then trolls themselves. And what they said was minimized with "he is just edgy". What we got in exchange is that trolls convinced fair amount of people. They opinions were th Those who opposed them were consistently blamed.
- antifa 4y agoI'm pretty sure the reason not to feed the trolls was because the moderators were around the corner and would be inconvenienced by having to moderate a large flamewar rather than ban a single ignored troll.
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