Want to enjoy your
Everything Experience even more than ever? Try this
handy dandy little trick:
Ignore the troll.
See, what a lot of people don't
understand is that the
troll thrives on making you
angry. He lives for getting you to
lose control and
flame him. When you
flame him, it gives him an
opportunity to
flame you right back. He enjoys turning
Everything into a
boiling
pit of
anger and
hate. Every time you
legitimize the
troll by responding to his
writeups, you give the
troll a little more
control over
Everything--a bit more
opportunity to make Everything
revolve around him, to
remake Everything in his own
image.
But when you
ignore the troll, he loses
power. When you refuse to
read his writeup, it's like he doesn't
exist for you, and you can spend your time noding
quality writeups, instead of noding a
brawl. When you refuse to vote the
troll up or down, you can contribute your
votes to a writeup that really deserves your
feedback. When you refuse to
respond to the
troll's
inflammatory writeups, the
message is
clear: "We don't
care about you."
Node for the Ages. Do not
Node for the Troll.