@iwritelike@mastodon.social @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party I’m still fine with the „don’t feed the troll“ approach. I’ll look at their timeline and mostly, I find such accounts have a lot in common. - mostly male (sorry guys) - often just a handful of followers who turn out to be similar pricks boosting each other - often comments that can be reported (but sometimes they run their own servers so forwarding it to theirs doesn’t make sense. As I’m my own admin I’ll defederate in such a case, rather than block). And before I block them, I may leave a comment just for the lurkers. Or not. Because , think about it: there are hundreds of foul servers out there with thousands of really bad actors you won’t ever come across because your server’s blocklist protects you from them. (yay admins!) I think of that one troll as being one of those. Blocking them shoots them up into this troll space where they can orbit each other forever. I let them go, and move on.