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Thak you for the article, and how to get your point across.
"...This sets up one of the central difficulties in confronting trolling: Shedding light on trolling may only encourage it."
Way to go, now we will have even more trolls.
May as well learn to embace the inevitable.
We have to be more selective, and it cannot be economically based. People smarter than me will see patterns of behavior and posting, more so now that we're over 10 million members
Thanks for the article. It's actually quite sad the extremes that some people are willing to go. The internet is such a rediculous place these days. I'm honestly not sure why people would want to have a facebook, or a twitter, or myspace, or whatever. It seems rediculous to post my name, and put my picture on the internet, and tell everybody what i'm doing at any givin time. The people who actually know me, know how to get in touch with me. If they don't, then it's because I don't want them to. I remember from that movie, "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back," that banky (jason lee) says something like, "that's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously."
It's an old problem that the internet just enflames. Some people just love to assert dominance over others. They do this by using put-down language and badgering people they think are (or should be) weaker and submissive. Just think of all those schoolyard conflicts of long ago. The internet just allows people with damaged psyches to conflict with others constantly and to bully, push and demean others. Only difference between the internet and the schoolyard is that the troll can't be punched in the face by people who have had it with his antics.
" But trolling does not happen in isolation, and the routine, collective path of emotional damage left in trolls’ wake can be devastating."
Really? Sounds pathetic to me. If someone is inflammatory for the sake of a response then it's nothing personal or to get upset over. Maybe some people aren't familiar with this idea.
DrSpudnik wrote:
It's an old problem that the internet just enflames. Some people just love to assert dominance over others. They do this by using put-down language and badgering people they think are (or should be) weaker and submissive. Just think of all those schoolyard conflicts of long ago. The internet just allows people with damaged psyches to conflict with others constantly and to bully, push and demean others. Only difference between the internet and the schoolyard is that the troll can't be punched in the face by people who have had it with his antics.
Yes, I think it's similar to kids in school. There's always some person willing to say the thing they think will hurt the most. It's not right that, for example, Robin William's family should be harassed online. But IMO you develop the skin to take it as a child. And the solution is even more simple than punching someone in the face, just turn it off.
shell_knight wrote:
DrSpudnik wrote:
It's an old problem that the internet just enflames. Some people just love to assert dominance over others. They do this by using put-down language and badgering people they think are (or should be) weaker and submissive. Just think of all those schoolyard conflicts of long ago. The internet just allows people with damaged psyches to conflict with others constantly and to bully, push and demean others. Only difference between the internet and the schoolyard is that the troll can't be punched in the face by people who have had it with his antics.
Yes, I think it's similar to kids in school. There's always some person willing to say the thing they think will hurt the most. It's not right that, for example, Robin William's family should be harassed online. But IMO you develop the skin to take it as a child. And the solution is even more simple than punching someone in the face, just turn it off.
Good point -- those who are offended by online bullies need to work on the fine art of ignoring people. Nothing bothers an attention-hungry troll more than being ignored.
If the trolls succeed in inundating this forum with useless noise, then it's probably time for sane people to migrate to a fully subscription-based chess site. If you can't afford it, then unfortunately you are doomed to reading the folderol of maladjusted adolescents.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/technology/web-trolls-winning-as-incivility-increases.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=1