Post by @iwritelike@mastodon.social

2026-04-13 13:38 UTC

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party This is what I have always thought -- that they should be ignored because any form of attention feeds them. I recently saw an opinion, though, that they must be screenshotted, called out, and publicly shamed. Since then, I have been wondering which is correct. I thought that massive attention would be exactly what they were after.

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@nellie_m@autisticpri.de 2026-04-13 21:13

@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.

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