Want to enjoy your Everything Experience even more than ever? Try this handy dandy little trick:
Ignore the troll.
See, what a lot of people don't understand is that the troll thrives on making you angry. He lives for getting you to lose control and flame him. When you flame him, it gives him an opportunity to flame you right back. He enjoys turning Everything into a boiling pit of anger and hate. Every time you legitimize the troll by responding to his writeups, you give the troll a little more control over Everything--a bit more opportunity to make Everything revolve around him, to remake Everything in his own image.
But when you ignore the troll, he loses power. When you refuse to read his writeup, it's like he doesn't exist for you, and you can spend your time noding quality writeups, instead of noding a brawl. When you refuse to vote the troll up or down, you can contribute your votes to a writeup that really deserves your feedback. When you refuse to respond to the troll's inflammatory writeups, the message is clear: "We don't care about you."
Node for the Ages. Do not Node for the Troll. |
