Hey y’all, keep an eye out for trolls. I have the impression there are a few accounts on here with users whose only purpose is to instigate others and get angry reactions out of people.
Are there any way to report these users? I haven’t found a report button for users specifically.
Probably salty Redditors realising their platform is dying.
Yeah you are never going to get away from trolls. They were around in the pre html days. Basically you just need to decide at what point you have given someone enough slack and then block em.
Why are people trolling to piss people off? Life is short. Troll for the funnies
I wish.
But trolling in itself is simply the act of pissing people off for fun. Some people get a kick out of it. I find it unpleasant and sad.
Maybe I’m not trolling correctly. Maybe I shitpost?
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Right? Im not trolling to piss anyone off necessarily
Your comment history doesn’t exactly shy away from hyperbole and antagonizing either. If you smell shit everywhere you go, check your shoes.
Sea lioning in my DMs really just proves my point. Sure, there are trolls out there, but your attitude also attracts and encourages incivility. Don’t feed the trolls.
I may have had some arguments with people, but I never go around trolling people for fun.
But how do you know the people you want to accuse and report do? How do you know they are antagonizing for fun?
I get how someone who is a mod in a LGBT community is going to run into more of them, but for other mods, those trolls trolling people for fun are just going to be people that raise arguments they don’t like. Such a feature could easily devolve into wrongthink thoughtpolicing into a We Happy Few dystopia under the wrong direction. Don’t be a downer,
take your joymake comments that just generally agree with the gist of what we all agree with! You don’t? Time to get slapped by the ban hammer!Have you tried confronting these users openly? Like saying something like “We have to deal with people who participate in bad faith and create arguments to antagonize people, and because of reason X, Y, and Z I believe you may be one of them. Please be more respectful and/or informed in your comments, or we may have to take action. If we are mistaken, we apologize but we have limited time, resources, and awareness to moderate this community, so we may have to act even when we are ultimately mistaken so we do ask some cooperation on your behalf.” If they are trolling for fun and antagonizing, they are going to continue to argue, but you don’t have to afterwards since you’ve already explained yourself by their next reply. “I don’t have the time to argue any more, help us make more time by not being so conflictive to the community we are trying to moderate.”
If it’s not fun then why are you arguing? You have the option to disengage. Every space doesn’t have to be for you. If it’s not something reportable, just let people have their fun, even that guy with the thorns in his comments.
I don’t understand your comment.
let people have their fun
You mean, let the trolls antagonize people for fun and create an unpleasant experience for everybody?
Report comments, that should work.
I imagine you’d still have to report on case-by-case basis since different communities have different rules. If you call them out in threads so others notice, we may keep an eye and report as well.
The block button is your friend.
Yeah but I try to avoid doing that since I moderate a few communities. If they post there, I want to be able to see what they post or comment, in case I need to intervene.
It would be nice if there was a feature (or just the default) to show blocked content in spaces you moderate.
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