10 Types of Internet Trolls You'll Meet Online
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An Internet troll is a member of an online social community who deliberately tries to disrupt, attack, offend or generally cause trouble within the community by posting certain comments, photos, videos, GIFs or some other form of online content.
You can find trolls all over the Internet – on message boards, in your YouTube video comments, on Facebook, on dating sites , in blog comment sections, and everywhere else that has an open area where people can freely post to express their thoughts and opinions. Controlling them can be difficult when there are a lot of community members, but the most common ways to get rid of them include either banning/blocking individual user accounts (and sometimes IP addresses altogether), reporting them to authorities , or closing off comment sections entirely from a blog post, video page or topic thread.
Regardless of where you'll find Internet trolls lurking, they all tend to disrupt communities in very similar (and often predictable) ways. This isn't by any means a complete list of all the different types of trolls out there, but they're most certainly some of the most common types you'll often come across in active online communities.
- The Insult Troll
- The Persistent Debate Troll
- The Grammar and Spellcheck Troll
- The Forever Offended Troll
- The Show-Off, Know-it-All Or Blabbermouth Troll
- The Profanity and All-Caps Troll
- The One Word Only Troll
- The Exaggeration Troll
- The Off Topic Troll
- The Greedy Spammer Troll
Read details about each type of troll here.
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Worst trolls I ever knew of tried to get Angry Left fired by doxing him at his job...
It wasn't the first time either. They had repeatedly doxed CobaltBlue beforehand.
That is a horrible thing to do. I think that person had a bigger problem than being a troll.
It was bad but the worst was that when banned for it they played the victim.
You've probably experienced that phenomenon of Perpetual Victimhood, too.
Indeedy! And it takes a lot to get banned from here, so you have got to be really, really rotten.
Why I do not like to talk about my personal life.
That's a terrible thing to do to people. I've read about politicians and Hollywood types doing this.
That was fun to watch.
It is not fun when it happens to you.
On Feb 22, 2014 I mentioned on NV that my ancient mother and I would be among the counterprotesters at a Westboro Baptist protest against Jason Collins coming out in the NBA outside the OKC Thunder game the next evening. On Feb 23rd, the next evening, we must have been identified among the small group of protesters and followed because my home was vandalized that night. On Feb 24th three members of NV taunted me openly with their intimate knowledge of exactly what had transpired the night before. Were it not for this I would not have tied it all back to what I had foolishly said about where and when we would be at a specific place and just assumed we were followed.
This is all I am going to share but do beware of what you reveal online.
Didn't they send letters to his place of business or something. Trying to get him fired because he admitted to getting high. Trying to say he was stoned on the job etc.
I thought another was harassed and got the authorities involved.
Yes. He has a medical condition which is treated with mj. When he mentioned that he used small amounts during the day, NJPerson latched onto that and threatened to inform his boss and clients. She gave out some identifying information on the Vine - vague info, but specific enough for a determined searcher to use to find him.
And JBB -
I've been lenient so far, but I need to halt your Meta. This seed is not a discussion about your personal NV and NT experiences. Those should be posted in Metafied.
Please discuss the seeded topic. Thank you.
Yes, they called his boss trying to rat him out for just being online while he was at work and then when that did not work they even tried to falsely report him for unethical practices to the governing body of his profession...
Butt, I am discussing the worst kind of troll I ever encountered online...
and JBB again ...
See comment 6.4.4.
No "Butts". Publish your own seed or article about your former grievances and stop derailing my seed .
Last warning.
Yes, but you've gone on about it for several comments now. Through your descriptions, we've all understood how terrible those trolls were, so there's no reason to rehash whatever happened on my seed and drone on and on about it. Use Metafied for your personal complaints, if you wish. This seed offers a higher level of discussion.
That's happened to me too where I unfortunately revealed too much personal information and they went to my IT department for being online at work also
Your seed is about trolls We are discussing trolls we've encountered. Seems on topic to me.
Correct.
Yes, and that is fine.
This is where I disagree. Several comments are repeatedly dredging up Meta history that most people either don't know about or aren't interested in. Write an article about those personal issues and post to Metafied if you wish to rehash your past experiences.
In order to get us back on topic, please share what method(s) you use and find most effective when dealing with Internet trolls.
I'm sorry you disagree.
The method I've found most effective when dealing with trolls is to antagonize them until they do something to get themselves banned, like, for example, threatening to doxx somebody.
I never heard of doxx. But I've always been wary of posting too much personal info publicly. Had no idea that happened to Angry Left, remember hearing something but never knew the extent of it. Sounds like cyber-stalking, and what kind of asshole tries to mess up someones life like that?
I appreciate your apology, but there wasn't a reason to do so. Most people can disagree without being disagreeable.
This sounds like it could be an effective way to combat trolls. The method I've found as most successful is to simply ignore those who are trolling and not reply to them.
The type who doesn't like to be challenged. Some of those types of trolls can be downright nasty humans.
I was thinking about this and remembered exactly what happened. I went to a site, I think it was called 'The Liberal Heretic' and they didn't like how I challenged their nonsense and one nasty bitch got my IP address and then reported me to my IT department.
Metafied is for members with issues with THIS forum, not for past issues with trolls in another forum.
I am fully aware of Metafied's purpose. As I stated in my Introduction, I cleared the placement issue with Perrie before seeding.
Most importantly, I suggest two things:
Thank you for your future cooperation.
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I was doxxed on a previous forum because they didn't believe that I was female. The guy called me on my cellphone. He also hacked into the DMV somehow and had my license photo.
Wow, that's pretty scary.
He thought it was cute to send me a magazine subscription a year later.
I retaliated by posting his name and address on Reddit after the magazine publisher told me who paid for it.
Other than possibly making you feel better, did your doxxing of someone else make everything OK? Just curious.
I tried to report it but the cops wouldn't do anything because he never physically staked or threatened me, so I played his game and let the trolls of Reddit have fun with him.
He should have thought about the repercussions of his actions before he decided to harass someone, unless you don't think that I should have defended myself. I reported him to the forum admins' but they said that it wasn't against the TOS.
On a relatively small forum like NT ignoring trolls is not really possible. Often there is only one seed about a given topic.
To me the worst trolls are the ones that want to aggressively spread ignorance. And there are some on every forum.
Actually, it's very easy. Just scroll past those comments and ignore them.
One can always find another source and seed it.
To me, the worst are the ones who want to aggressively spread hatred against others for their religious, political or personal beliefs. And there are indeed some on every forum.
If left to continue their games, Trolls can seriously affect the quality of the site community, and deter some Members from participating. Especially, those who continually target the same Members whom they feel some dislike for, or have a personal grudge against. When they are allowed to continue this kind of behavior it only emboldens them to be even more abusive.
Some also do their Trolling toward women, as they hold women in disdain, especially, those who are not reluctant to hold their own against their personal attacks.
This applies to most social sites, and we have a few who engage in Trolling here on NT as well.
Needs to be repeated. Well said, Raven Wing.
I believe that TPTB on websies often credit their pet trolls with increasing site participation and maybe even feel dependent on them as individually they do make lots of comments and they do often inspire many others to comment in response to their trolling butt really they ultimately will run off way more members decimating both participation and the overall quality of contributors. Sometimes management is going to make mistakes. It only becomes a tragic folly when TPTB cannot or will not recognize that they merely made a very human error and then take necessary corrective actions...
However, from what I have seen myself, those who continually respond to the Trolls are the same ones time after time. They are the Troll's 'baiters' to keep giving the Troll comments to respond to, thus, continually able to create a less than productive and/or hostile environment which few other than themselves wish to participate in. In the end, the site becomes less and less conducive to those who wish to engage in civil and meaningful discussion.
Agreed. And if you object to it, then they treat you like the Forever Offended Troll.
Very true. Being gender prejudice in an open forum is one of the more disgusting types of Trolls.
I don't usually troll but when I do, I'm fishing.
Great catch!! There are some types of 'Trolling' that end in a truly great result! (grin)
What time is dinner?
I'll bring the Fry Bread.....
That was nice of someone to let you pose with their fish Kavika. J/k
I sent a special box of nightcrawlers to the fishes daddy...
Good catch.
I'm guessing light weight line.
4lbs? 6lbs?
8lb test mono and the fish weighted 10 lbs 5 oz.
I noodle catfish not bass....
My biggest catfish that I noodled was 31 lbs.
That's still pretty good.
I think Dad was the master of light weight line.
I suppose there is something of a gray area between The Insult Troll and The Forever Offended Troll. How do we identify the lines separating bad manners vs strong opinions and good manners vs extreme sensitivity?
Sorry, folks. I need to lock this seed. Time to get ready for family dinner. I've enjoyed reading everyone's on topic comments and look forward to more. I will unlock tomorrow.
We're open for business again.
Please remember our CoC/ToS and ... NO META.
From my experiences over the years on several venues, this type of troll's "contributions" may also consist of the following even when documented facts and evidence have already been provided:
They remind me of children who seek attention even if it's negative.