I never, ever liked the phrase. It always felt wrong. It always always always felt wrong.
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And understand, it's less about the trolls. They were going to do whatever and it wouldn't change them. It's about the thousands and thousands of people who were told that when they were experiencing mountains of abuse. It was ignoring their abuse, plain and simple.
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Folks, there was no more "innocent" time for trolls. This is always what it was. This is always what it looked like. You just grew up.
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It's a day later and it's amazing how many people think I'm confusing the term troll for abuser, not knowing where the term comes from and what it was intended to mean, and not getting my overall point that it was always an excuse. But whatever. Column coming on the issue.
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I think it's more along the lines of don't fight fire with fire. You do need to fight fire. The fire services don't say, 'Don't worry, it'll go out by itself. Eventually.' You just need something that puts it out and not helps it spread like, well, wildfire.
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The phrase was always a concession of powerlessness, though. Say something or don't, but the troll always wins.
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Not saying that's right, but it is the thought pattern.
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Yup. I’m not sure it started out that way, but the bad advice gave them somewhere out of the light.
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It was a good rule for its time — a time of curated forums, where if users don't feed trolls, mods can just ban them swiftly. The problem is not with the rule, but with the concept of social network. The Facebook's principle of "more connections is always good".
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