How to not fall for rage bait 101!

In many threads there are trolls and attention seeking rage baiters, and unfortunately, OTF seems to fall for these baits a lot. How do you not fall for it? What are your options?

1. The worst thing you can do is respond and play into their bait. Take a deep breath and move on. Calm yourself and ignore the ragebaiter. Majority of the time these trolls are simply seeking attention, therefore, if you ignore them they will most likely stop.

2. If you are someone who struggles with anger and can’t seem to ignore what they are saying, another option is simply blocking them. Out of sight, out of mind.

3. Report. If they are breaking TOS, report them, and they might just get banned, and can never rage bait again.

4. Have a productive conversation. This is for the people who know they will not get baited. Simply, have a conversation with them. Maybe even try to convince them to stop. Maybe even try to befriend them, and change their attitude.

Thank you for reading, feel free to add any other points I may have missed below!

Usually, going outside helps.

Yeah that would work…

That isn’t realistic though

There are times when I've been genuinely angry and triggered by some users of this site. I can say from experience that taking a few hours away from OTF and the internet as a whole is the best thing you can do for yourself to calm down.

Yes, the sun, exercise, and water fix most things.

Ragebaiting has increased my elo by 200

#9
Yea u can

In one of the new updates, if u go to the person’s profile, press the 3 dots, and u can block them

1ost-and-found just looked at your profile and seems like you have a skill issue more than anything

1ost-and-found you have 1197 games so yeah I think I can judge based on that

#14
Then u didn’t update the app

If u don’t feel like updating it, then just send the person a DM
U can block them from the DM screen

#20
He’s 1200 higher elo then u or smth
I don’t think he’s scared

1ost-and-found, annnddd you've been ragebaited on a how not to be ragebaited thread lmao

#23
Pluh

He’s 1700 higher then u in rapid
He is def winning

touch the green stuff

Pluh 🗣️🔥

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