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Save the fish! Don't feed the trolls!
15 years ago
Okay bois n girls (and anything in between), you probably know the problem:
You submitted something, come back, and get a message that you got a new comment. You look at it with excitement - and read something like "horrible pic!", "you can't draw. Kill yourself!" or "you're the worst artist ever!". Before you go to the next lake with a rope and a large stone under the arm: those comments are called TROLLING. And some ingenious people thought out a pretty easy way to deal with it: the IBR protocol.
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The first time you read crap like that from another user, IGNORE IT. No replies, no justification, NOTHING. Just say to yourself "Fail in Hell, trollfag!", set it and forget it.
If the troll comes back and tries again, PLONK him. go to your control panel, open the block list, and add the idiot to your list. Click "update", and the prob's solved for now. He won't be able to troll on your page anymore, send comments or private notes etc.
Now for the most important part: if you did all that and the troll is coming after you on another user's page: REPORT him. Open a trouble ticket, select "Harassment" as the issue from the dropdown list, and add
The link to the troll's FA account
At least ONE link to a troll comment (or a screenshot of it)
Optionally add a few SHORT notes where he tried to troll you or other users you know.
One important exception for step 1 and 2 is if you see a troll on several other users' submissions or accounts. In this case you may skip these steps and report the troll immediately (with the link to the troll account and the evidence, of course).
That saves us admins a lot of time, a lot of YOUR nerves, and lots of fish our poor starving FA non-troll otters deserve more. :D
So much for today's lessons kids, now got out and play in the sun.
You submitted something, come back, and get a message that you got a new comment. You look at it with excitement - and read something like "horrible pic!", "you can't draw. Kill yourself!" or "you're the worst artist ever!". Before you go to the next lake with a rope and a large stone under the arm: those comments are called TROLLING. And some ingenious people thought out a pretty easy way to deal with it: the IBR protocol.
Ignore
Block
Report
The first time you read crap like that from another user, IGNORE IT. No replies, no justification, NOTHING. Just say to yourself "Fail in Hell, trollfag!", set it and forget it.
If the troll comes back and tries again, PLONK him. go to your control panel, open the block list, and add the idiot to your list. Click "update", and the prob's solved for now. He won't be able to troll on your page anymore, send comments or private notes etc.
Now for the most important part: if you did all that and the troll is coming after you on another user's page: REPORT him. Open a trouble ticket, select "Harassment" as the issue from the dropdown list, and add
The link to the troll's FA account
At least ONE link to a troll comment (or a screenshot of it)
Optionally add a few SHORT notes where he tried to troll you or other users you know.
One important exception for step 1 and 2 is if you see a troll on several other users' submissions or accounts. In this case you may skip these steps and report the troll immediately (with the link to the troll account and the evidence, of course).
That saves us admins a lot of time, a lot of YOUR nerves, and lots of fish our poor starving FA non-troll otters deserve more. :D
So much for today's lessons kids, now got out and play in the sun.
"Just say to yourself "Fail in Hell, trollfag!""
Does NOT mean posting that somewhere on your page :P
Also, agreed ^_^
Warmock makes a good point, so I'm going to
rip this offcopy this to my journal too.i can just give them this link and theyll be on their merry way.
so it only makes sense to just post the link to this when sed thing happens to sed friend. saves fingers from the cramps.
A few times some people that have had a problem with me, have been complaining to me afterwards about how they can't block me.
Then I had to tell them "Okay pumpkin, go to Control Panel then [blaa blaa blaa] and your done".
Then, the last message from the person is "Thank you" and I've been blocked. LoL, sometimes it's just plain funny how these things turn or work out in the end.
Another funny thing is, how if your opinion doesn't match up with the persons, you are automatically a troll in his/her and his/her friends eyes. Another big laugh there. And especially good constructive criticism writes: Yeah, almost half of the users here that post art see them as "trolls". For christ sake people, learn the differences.
Troll: Somebody trying to bully/-pick on/-disturb/piss you off/-crap you on purpose and hurt your feelings, just for plain laughing matter, as they think it's funny.
Differing opinion/-other common user: His/her opinion differs from yours, might point out some things, might write good constructive criticism. This doesn't make them automatically a troll, so don't go and act like a fucking idiot all of a sudden and call your friends up, talking trash behind the users back. It's just pathetic and stupid.
It's just natural that the user will afterwards write a comeback if he/she feels like doing so (which naturally won't help the case at all, as ignoring would be a better solution) and this will just cause you to get pissed off over nothing, even more.
Sometimes I just can't understand some people. Snort.