Protected: Milk, Part Four
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Showing posts with label trolls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trolls. Show all posts
Friday, August 1, 2008
Trolls
The New York Times ran a really interesting article today about trolls. Seriously, check it out, it might shed some light on trolls' behavior.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Trolling...
Trolls have been a HUGE problem on this blog lately. Instead of writting my own policy about it, i want to second what Amelia said. (is there something in the water?)
"First of all, I would like to remind all commenters that anonymous commenting is a privilege. I started this blog for the purpose of generating productive discussion... The use of the word 'troll' for me means a person who leaves comments (usually, but not always, anonymously) that are meant to provoke a negative reaction among those who support the authors/ideas of this blog. General tactics used on this blog include: generalizing about all feminists ('feminists hate men!'), assumptions about particular authors ('you wrote about x so you must be like this'), name calling ('conceited,' and 'vain' were alluded to in a recent thread), and others.
Many of the people that I would consider to be trolls on this blog come here, make intentionally aggravating statements, and then try to use the human reactions of other commenters to make a bad name for feminism. It is interesting that they claim to just be presenting an opposing viewpoint. Problem is that there intent obviously does not fit with this. They want to make feminists look bad."
Well said Amelia, and i whole heartedly agree.
Here's the least vitriolic and most toned down example of one that [Anon] has sent me that i moderated:
"Many women do gold dig. And women are manipulative.
*shrugs*
It's life. Rather than getting people to shut up about it, why not work to change women for the better?
*gasp* Change women for the better?
I forgot, you're all perfect and never do anything wrong."
At first, i thought it would be educational to start a discourse with my fav trolls (maybe they'd learn something?) but that didn't work out too well... I quickly realized there is no changing these troll's minds and it's better not to engage at all. So although i will still allow anonymous comments because i do value everyone's opinion and encourage discussion, i will continue to carefully monitor comments and refuse to display those that are obviously written by a troll or with a sole purpose of disrespecting or ridiculing others, especially those marginalized.
"First of all, I would like to remind all commenters that anonymous commenting is a privilege. I started this blog for the purpose of generating productive discussion... The use of the word 'troll' for me means a person who leaves comments (usually, but not always, anonymously) that are meant to provoke a negative reaction among those who support the authors/ideas of this blog. General tactics used on this blog include: generalizing about all feminists ('feminists hate men!'), assumptions about particular authors ('you wrote about x so you must be like this'), name calling ('conceited,' and 'vain' were alluded to in a recent thread), and others.
Many of the people that I would consider to be trolls on this blog come here, make intentionally aggravating statements, and then try to use the human reactions of other commenters to make a bad name for feminism. It is interesting that they claim to just be presenting an opposing viewpoint. Problem is that there intent obviously does not fit with this. They want to make feminists look bad."
Well said Amelia, and i whole heartedly agree.
Here's the least vitriolic and most toned down example of one that [Anon] has sent me that i moderated:
"Many women do gold dig. And women are manipulative.
*shrugs*
It's life. Rather than getting people to shut up about it, why not work to change women for the better?
*gasp* Change women for the better?
I forgot, you're all perfect and never do anything wrong."
At first, i thought it would be educational to start a discourse with my fav trolls (maybe they'd learn something?) but that didn't work out too well... I quickly realized there is no changing these troll's minds and it's better not to engage at all. So although i will still allow anonymous comments because i do value everyone's opinion and encourage discussion, i will continue to carefully monitor comments and refuse to display those that are obviously written by a troll or with a sole purpose of disrespecting or ridiculing others, especially those marginalized.
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