I 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

I 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.