Troll spotting guide

Hello chess.com community. Some of you may know that in order to counter trolling a new club by the name of the Anti-Trolling federation https://www.chess.com/club/anti-trolling-federation has been formed. Our first order of business has been to make a thread outlining how to spot trolls thanks to everyone who helped. @Ziryab  @xXCRY0TICXx2  @Jalex13  and myself. Here we go. #1 They have no profile picture. #2 They have very few or no games. #3 Of the games that they do have most or all of them are fast time controls with time out losses.  #4 People who are new and only comment on a specific forum. #5 They claim to come from very unusual countries with very low populations that is certainly not true 100% of the time.

Cripes, I match at least half the criteria.

Besides the fact that your account is 13 years old

I just hope this won't be just another "we did it reddit!" fiasco.

I like the “know it all” personality who doesn’t participate in rated online games but has a dogmatic opinion on everything. Usually a self proclaim class A USCF player.

And multiple accounts.

I just hit their profile, look at the their statistics and skim a handful of games to get an idea of hypocrisy.

Heres a troll spot of note .. when you see 2.Ke2 or 2.Kd2. or 2. Kf2. Even I'm king of the hill that's trolling 

I had the greatest troll experience two nights ago. Normal opening, i play my usual response (secret), on move 4, nothing out of the ordinary. Dude goes, "this is literally unplayable". I lol. Troll: "this is a cry for help." I lol. Troll: "go see a therapist. You are loved." Before I can reply anything more, troll forfeits and blocks me. I report him, but thank you, weird mofo. That was epic.

Trolls usually have a profile picture though.

what is the meaning of this op? or the group? 

of the so-called criteria, i qualify for some. itude has many accounts here where he barely qualifies. a waste of time, in my opinion. 

even if you are an expert at spotting trolls here, so what? want a badge or something? cc doesn't care. 

also, by creating a group specifically for this purpose, it is likely that many assumptions will be wrong, as many here like to hear themselves speak. 

Probably the new clean up crew.

I fit none of the criteria for being a troll; what a relief! 😅

Yes we don't care about trolls and even if we don't know we can be too notably by feeding them or their topic.

But otherwise on social networks it's not really the trolls that we should learn to identify etc. but rather the cybercriminals and political activists who are more harmful or problematic.

The internet is not a place of trust but of distrust.

I think most trolls like to be spotted. It's not the trolling that's funny to a troll, it's the people that make a fuss about it. So it's best to just ignore it.

you are right

1) Trolls spam the forums with repetitive comments that are not focused on the topic at hand.
2) They post memes, images, and cartoons that are meant as distractions from the discussion.
3) Trolls cultivate personal hostility among posters, rather than productive discussion. Sometimes this means repeating ad nauseum comments already made with the addition of personal attacks on those who disagree.

Are any of these three debatable?

Those are all very true the OP was mainly used to identify accounts that could be trolls this certifiable good though. Could I add it into the OP?

Spamming was once used to take down trolls.

https://www.chess.com/club/royal-spam-society