Please DO NOT FEED the Trolls!

Here’s a post I found on another forum with advice to address our very own Troll problem. Some of you may be quite familiar with this annoyance and know what to or not to do. Consider it another test and development of one’s self discipline which can only benefit our trading success :slight_smile:

First, what is a Troll. Wikipedia says:

In Internet Forums

A person who enters unknown forums who bashes and insults forum members with unfounded arguments, or anyone that enters any sort of internet community for the sole purpose of harassing others is often referred to as a troll.

But really, a Troll is more (and less) than that. A Troll posts inflammatory messages for the sole purpose of getting attention. It’s true that this does include harrassing others but it can also range to messages on any and all topics that might draw rebuttals from anyone on the board. Once a single reply is posted the Troll has met his or her goal of being important enough for response and attention.

At times this abberrant behaviour can actually be entertaining, especially when a message board attracts two or more Trolls who then battle to see who is King Troll (if you will) and therefore deserves the most attention. Unfortunately, I have also seen boards effectively killed as the more responsible and mature members, tired of the constant demands to feed the Troll’s ego, drift away.

So, what is the best way course of action to follow should your local forums become Troll-infested? Once identified, the Troll could be banned but returning under a different name and IP address is just too easy and results in the Admin playing a constant game of seek-and-destroy. The best way, in my nearly 30 years of online experience, to deal with a Troll is to simply ignore it. Do not, under any condition or provocation, reply to ANY of the Troll’s messages. You have to understand that NOTHING you can write, no matter how astute or well argued, will deter the Troll from its choosen purpose. The Troll, lacking the attention his or her damaged ego so desperately needs, will go elsewhere and you can get back to the business of building your online community

…and just put him/them on your ignore list (your personal stoploss :D) :cool:

yes, very timely advice sweetpip

Absolutely excellent stuff Sweetpip!! :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

Very nice work finding that information.

It is very helpful.

Now that we know this, we can put it into action.

In the meantime, I, the resident schoolmaster, have done my duties dealing with naughty boys!! :smiley: :smiley:

I trust we might see some repentance.
If not, this message of yours takes action!

i feel so unwanted

not

sweetpip excellent post. As usual insightful and isnpiring :slight_smile:

So only who bashes is a troll?
I see a huge “troll” in here
who talks of nothing but religious
nonsense riddled with anti-government
BS, speckled with conspiracy insanity.
But since he doesn’t “bash” anyone
directly, he is not a “troll” right?
I would also add that people who
copy and paste utter nonsense
is also a Troll. Clearly, most people
in here are not winning traders.

Laguna and Newport are right by each other.

Now one username posts the same rant as another username did somewhere else.

Could this be the same person?:rolleyes:

Or very special buddies that spend alot of time together now that they met on the net?:smiley:

Ha Ha, It’s only a joke.:stuck_out_tongue:

I would also add that people who
copy and paste utter nonsense
is also a Troll. Clearly, most people
in here are not winning traders

speak for yourself there are plenty of winners here and some fantastic contributors.

btw if you are calling sweetpip a troll then you can go f**k yourself

Nope… Same person.
Because both usernames
only post things that
take up this much of
the page. Like it is a
copy and paste job or
something. You have
been caught.:smiley:

Ha Ha.:smiley: I should have worded it like that. I was trying to be nice as I could.

If you can’t guess the two usernames that are the same person, It is JonnyFX and ECN-Scalper. Same guy.

lol!!! there will always be naysayers and people who are so afraid that all they can do is throw stones, ow well for me i love this place its like cheers and now i know everybodys name hehehehhe

If you can’t guess the two usernames that are the same person, It is JonnyFX and ECN-Scalper. Same guy.


Ahhh… poor baby. Here’s a twinky.:slight_smile:

Anyone offended by this thread identifies themselves as a troll. simple human psychology. I almost thought they’d be smart enough not to post and admit that to everyone :rolleyes:

The best way, in my nearly 30 years of online experience, to deal with a Troll is to simply ignore it.

30 years?

Sorry, I had to point it out. I didn’t know the U.S. Military had forum trolls back then.

CPO Smith: Johnson, what are you doing on that dummy terminal?

Seaman Johnson: Telling the prez and admiral to f off on the classified network. I’m letting them know how I would run things if I was them.

CPO Smith: Johnson, stop being a troll and man your broom and swab.

They’re just upset because their dads used to beat them. They always vowed when they got old enough they would even the score. The problem is, they are now old enough, but their dads still kick their a$$.:smiley:

So today, they use the safety of the keyboard to give them what they never had and just hope their daddy is not on the same forum.

:smiley: :DI remember quite a few years ago, when I was using Comp-U-Serve, they were called “disrupters”. We’ve come a long way since the 80’s. :rolleyes:

Now there’s a classic example of M2P humor. :smiley:

And yes, JonnyFX and ECN-Scalper (whatever that means, exactly) are obviously the same individual: format, “location”, the repetitive misapplication of the word “psychobabble” among others, and a penchant for bombastic denunciations in just about every post.

I’ve never understood the inverse correlation between posting invective on forums and W/L ratio, but everyone that does that first seems to inevitably end up with good statistics for the second. Maybe someone could explain this…

Hmmmmmmmm.

I could have guessed that something was amiss. :eek:

So who is Superman and who is Clark Kent?? :smiley: :smiley:

Your wit has a way of adding nice colour to this forum Mytwopips! :smiley: :smiley:

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