Trolling is not a new thing. As long as hateful and/or sociopathic and/or sadistic people exist there will be trolls and trolling. You can only manage trolling,

Trolling is not a new thing. As long as hateful and/or sociopathic and/or sadistic people exist there will be trolls and trolling. You can only manage trolling, you can't eliminate it. That's the mistake Reddit made, they thought they could eliminate it, or at least hide it, and that isn't something that anyone knows how to do. In their efforts they make some basic mistakes. They removed areas where the trolls had self segregated (ex. fatshaming) forcing them back into the rest of the community. They failed to properly ignore the trolls and reacted to them up to the extent of claiming that the resignation of a member of their executive had something to do with their actions. I predict that the Reddit troll problem is going to get much worse before it gets better.