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Re: [OT] Words of advice for legitimate posters
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chesilbeach wrote:
Trolls come to forums for entertainment. The internet is just a playground to them and anything can and will be said by them.

Attaching normal social morays to troll posts is a foolish practice. It is very important to remember they will deliberately attempt to wind up marks by any means and if a mark isn't prone to anger they will instead attempt to discredit their arguments.

Other popular tactics include
- acting the victim especially if attacked back or called out as a troll
- agreeing with some posters to drive a rift in a normally passive forum
- circular logic and logical fallacies ie X is true therefore Y must be
- grouping with other trolls, each playing a different yet complimentary role eg agitator and supporter or victim and white knight.

Other troll tactics......
They also post under more than one name, sometimes even giving the appearance of having conversations with their alter-egoes and will post against a "target" using all the personae they have created. If they have ever been banned from a site they reregister with a new name and pretend to be a new poster too.


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Posted by Resonox
6th June 2010ce
18:02

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