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I left this comment in the blog: I'm sorry but this doesn't make sense for me nowadays. I'm not a big account (close to 1.5k followers) and I suffered serious
by im_dario 12y ago
I left this comment in the blog:
I'm sorry but this doesn't make sense for me nowadays. I'm not a big account (close to 1.5k followers) and I suffered serious trolling, threatening and harassment due political ideology (striking harder on electoral campaign). My notifications were full of their tweets.
First, I blocked them and report them to Twitter. I got their accounts suspended but they came back within a few days. This lead me to a different strategy and mindset. I saw their tweets but I "felt" them as what they were: noise.
Do you know that pain-in-the-ass noise that you ignore after a while? Somebody drilling, i.e. That kind of noise.
When I realized this, I didn't care about them. I just passed through them, ignoring actively. They eventually stopped harassing. They became powerless.
With this experience I developed a fine sense to detect useless discussions, allowing me to even get in one on purpose if I'm bored enough. Even if I'm in the mood I can answer them but when I do it I use to be right on the spot. They tend to stop after two or three tweets.
I think everybody should develop this kind of mindset around Twitter. Obviously, this won't work in other types of harassments beyond "intellectual" one. They should be dealt in more severe ways.
- kitd 12y agoI tend to do this on Reddit. I'll try to have a meaningful conversation with people who demonstrate they want one in return, but all those little glib snarks, gripes or quips that the lazy (ie me from time to time) post get ignored, even if they really do warrant a response. Reddit has a mechanism where you can tag individuals so familiar trolls can show up in comments like a sore thumb. Twitter needs something similar. Not Block/Unblock, but some kind of user-controlled colour-coding so the eye knows easily what to skip.
- chippy 12y agoreddit's mechanism is a (third party?) browser extension (RES) - I'm sure that one already exists for Twitter... or could easily be built in a weekend/hackathon?