Edit, since people are now seeing this post who did not see the the reason for it:

At the time of creating and posting this, there was an account that was created using a well known username and spamming extremly transphobic hate posts. Some users were starting to interact with this very obvious troll, so I thought it might be a good idea to generally remind people how to treat these trolls. This is not about some light hearted banter or good faith jokes, this is about trolls that are truly only about spreading hate.

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[–] 39 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Instance block chatgptjailbreak.tech. Another set of problems solved.

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Hey discord, my age verification is that I remember when trolls were named after people that went trolling for fights and flame wars by leaving a trail of bait-posts.

    Either way though, don't feed the trolls and stop making stupid people famous.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    stop making stupid people famous.

    um, i would like to apply for an exception please. some day i would like to be famous for a piece of art i make eventually and i am very, very stupid.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Ha. Fair enough but if you make art, thats not the kind of stupid I mean,

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    oh it's a worse stupid. there was a dude who once put a bunch of oversized beach umbrellas every 50 meters along the spanish riviera for like 20 miles (i think i'm remembering the story right) and it was gorgeous and everything and a beautiful work of art until the wind picked up and not all of the umbrellas were 100% solidly anchored because beach wind and so they started rolling down the coast and like those things are sharp and if i recall he got charged with involuntary environmental ecoterrorism and i've always kind of been inspired by that

    i'm thinking something with kudzu

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    That person really has a hate boner for the 2 people they are impersonating.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    I actively run 12 accounts, myself! You wouldn't believe how much self-arguing we do!

    this is a joke

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    You’d really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and be an asshole?

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Don't feed the trolls. Report, block, move on

    Very good advice. But if you have some sort of personality defect that makes you occasionally engage with trolls like I do, here is some additional advice:

    Make your comment less effort than the trolls. Don't argue every point. Focus on their weakest point.

    Essentially, if you can't resist responding to a troll because you're an idiot like me, make it like one short sentence where you point out their biggest mistake, and then if they respond to you and you respond back, keep doing that and never let them change the subject. At least you're causing them to waste effort.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    There's only so many trolls on the internet because of people bridging their network. If there were no bridges, the trolls would have no where to live. 😌

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    famine is not a moderation policy

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Can I eat the trolls? 🥺

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago*

    What if their untrue statement is purely for a really good pun?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    I won't feed the trolls, but you (moderation) will in part need to remove them from under the bridges and banish them from the town squares. You may even have to remove them from your own ranks.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (14 children)

    Countertrolling is more fun, though :(

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 9 months ago (13 children)

    You can't countertroll someone who's just spitting hate.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    You vastly underestimate my abilities

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Have you got any examples? Because in my experience a lot of the time people who are block happy just happen to have extreme views they refuse to have challenged and rather just stick their heads in the sand so they don't ever have to entertain the possibility that they're wrong.

    Blocking just creates echo chambers, leading to group think effects and fanaticism.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, even in instances where one side is clearly right, it's still important to be challenged often enough to know exactly why it's right. As soon as you're comfortable enough with "knowing" something is right without being able to explain why, you risk believing things that "feel" correct but might not be. You don't have to actually argue with trolls, but you should still see and process their arguments enough to formulate a counterargument in your head that would stand up to a hypothetical person arguing in good faith.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    https://t.feddit.org/modlog?other_person_id=13878687

    I did not make this post out of nothing. The accout with that modlog was created and just started to spam maximally offensive transphobic shitposts over multiple communities. And because people started to comment and argue with that account, I felt some should be reminded to not feed trolls.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Hmm, I can't see anything in there, if anything it just reinforces my suspicion that those are frivolous bans and deletions based on your personal political biases, because it reads as if you personally got offended and decided who should be able to say anything. You still haven't showed otherwise. Nothing compels you to, but for what it's worth I think we should be a little bit more restrictive about abusing moderation powers, or we are going to end up like reddit all over again.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    The irony of people arguing with OP.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    But op will starve!

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (15 children)

    If you block a troll, then you will no longer be able to report or monitor their bad behavior. So the problem isn't solved.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    That's why the steps are ordered this way. First report, then block. And if you want to, you can view the reported post while logged out, check modlogs, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

    Surely not seeing their content does fix the problem.

    • This person's comments and posts are making my experience worse
    • block
    • no longer see their comments and posts
    • experience no longer being damaged by their comments and posts.
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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (5 children)

    Right, obviously blocking works for individuals. Just not for the wider community, as banning does.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (4 children)

    ... yes... which is why both tools exist, and why you should report people who break community rules before blocking them.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    This isn't complicated. I don't have to block anyone and none of you can make me. I have my reasons.

    Ps. I have a healthy blocklist and don't need the weird preaching anyhow.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Are you ... just looking to pick a fight?

    No, you don't need to block anyone, but blocking is a useful and important tool.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yes I'm insisting on fighting. /s

    Kinda like you're insisting I block people even after I explained a rational reason that some people don't immediately block them

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Do you mean those types of people by the term trolls who often post nonsense stuff like this for no reason or nah?(I don't understand):

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    To quote myself:

    spamming extremly transphobic hate posts

    and

    this is about trolls that are truly only about spreading hate.

    Not sure what is hard to understand about this.

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  • [–] -5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I can't help it! They're trying to convince people voting is bad.

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