Recent influx of trolls?
I haven't been on here very long myself, but it seems that in just the past two days or so there has been a marked increase in trollish behavior on this site.
Is this new on IDW? Or did I just somehow not observe it until the last 48 hours?
Personally, I think exercising self-restraint and ignoring their tantrum is the best method of dealing with trolls. They feed on attention, and die of starvation easily.
*Care and feeding of trolls: trolls must be the center of attention, and fed often, or they wither and die of boredom. Make sure you respond to their posts, and also tag them by user name. If you don't do these things, they might actually go somewhere else on the internet, and poor us would be stuck having civil conversations without trolls.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I’m brand new here myself. Haven’t seen trolls just yet.
Mkschuette
Level 2
Mar 15, 2019
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The best (and really the only) way to respond to trolls is don't respond to trolls. Ignore a troll at all costs, even if they personally attack you. Once you reply, they have your words to use against you.
theanimalside
Level 6
Mar 14, 2019
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Agreed - once you identify a troll, just completely ignore them.
Just about every social media site has trolls and malcontents waiting to stir up trouble, it's best to just ignore them. This site cannot be policed 24/7, and is certainly one of the better sites where trolling is concerned.
SpikeTalon
Level 10
Mar 14, 2019
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I agree, and I would go a step further to say trolls SHOULDNT be policed.... I'm too much of an advocate of free speech to support banning even trolls.
They aren't preventing the rest of us from communicating, so there's no reason to deny their right to speech.
Seems like a false flag, I haven't seen any trolls 
WarmPotato
Level 6
Mar 14, 2019
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You have to know that contrary thinkers will come here to try and disrupt the civil exchange of ideas
Clammypollack
Level 7
Mar 14, 2019
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I've not seen an increase in flagged comments. Will keep an eye out for them.
Admin
Level 8
Mar 14, 2019
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To be fair, I only saw two flagrant episodes - one on a comment I made, and one on somebody else's thread that I was reading.
It just caught me off guard because I hadn't seen anything like that on here. However, as I said: I'm fairly newish here, and I wasn't sure if that behavior hasn't really been present here, or if I just hadn't seen it yet.
On a related note - does Admin do anything about trolls? I kind of assumed that a purported free speech site wouldn't restrict the free speech of anyone, even the obnoxious ones.
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