Found a fabulous book published in 1675 called The Governance of the Tongue. It's basically about trolls. Chapters include "Of Detraction," "Of Lying Defamation," and "Of Scoffing and Derision."
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This is surprising to hear considering you created a very successful online forum in HN and have been managing trolls for over a decade. Is it the political topic that makes Twitter different or something about the software?
That's why I said "forums and Twitter." I saw it on Slashdot, Reddit, and HN before Twitter. Retweet-with-comment is one Twitter feature that definitely makes things worse here. And the huge number of users.
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“zoon politikon” pg, aristotle said it first.
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Defamation is an evolutionary defense system meant for thwarting threats to the tribe which did not scale with civilization
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