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Way back in the BBS era I learned "Do not feed the trolls", but I'm not sure that this rule applies to lonely restless insomniac megalomaniac multibillionaires
by glonq 3y ago
Way back in the BBS era I learned "Do not feed the trolls", but I'm not sure that this rule applies to lonely restless insomniac megalomaniac multibillionaires hopped up on ketamine.
I love the idea that starving Musk of attention might inspire him to go fuck off and pursue some chill offline hobbies like fishing or needlepoint. But he's being groomed by this new breed of narcissistic conservatives who pattern themselves off of 1980's-era WWF wrestling heels, so the harder you try to ignore him the harder he will try to get more attention.
The best I can do is boycott Twitter/X so that he suffers the sting of a $44B folly.
- cratermoon 3y agoI was there, and I remember "Do not feed the trolls". It worked OK in smaller communities, where the moderators (BBS admins) could kick the Nazis out of the bar before it became a Nazi bar, and nobody was trying to look good on their next quarterly report so the shareholders would earn money. We also learned, within a decade or two, that if you just ignored the trolls and did nothing else, they would bring their troll friends and engage in coordinated, ideology-driven trolling, and then you had the Nazi bar problem.