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Sometimes, when I notice I have persistent trolls over months, I take a couple tries to reach out and talk to them.

I try to directly address their issues, and ask what their problem is, or who hurt them.

Like someone who is clearly a human but posts anti-Bitcoin stuff on my threads 193 times. Or who makes fun of my voice 65 times.

Thus far, it has almost never worked out. They just keep going until they burn out. Their views and comments tend to be near-zero anyway. It’s a mental illness issue. And I’m not equipped to handle it.

Kind of like how people throw poop in certain cities, there are people who digitally just parasitically can’t stop clutching to others negatively.

I invite them to do better, hope they recover, but I increasingly learn that dealing with them rationally doesn’t work and I’m not the right one to help with that sort of mental illness.

UNCLE ROCKSTAR 10mo ago 💬 1

you say "almost never worked out", would love to hear about cases that did

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Lyn Alden 10mo ago 💬 3

Some people fell for obvious impersonator scams, and keep harassing me as a supposed scammer who stole their money, and then when I realize that detail, I explain with evidence it wasn't me and highlight the clear fake account that they're referencing, and they actually realize it and stop. (If someone isn't well-off, doesn't have a good information filter, and looses a few thousand dollars from a scam that they think is me, it's natural that they'd devote a lot of time to harass me. So if I see that start to happen over time, I take time to examine it and clarify it, with half-decent results.)

Some other pure trolls soften *slightly* when faced with a human-to-human response, but still have a persistently negative issue. Instead of 10/10 of their comments being negative, 9/10 of their comments become negative and the other 1/10 become semi-consecutive. There are more that double-down than soften, though. And then over time they burn out, because their comments get no likes anyway.

The statistics aren't great.

UNCLE ROCKSTAR 10mo ago

Yeah, my own experience is that if people have wrong information (someone claimed that I claimed something) - you can fix it with the right information.

The real problem with persistent trolls is that there is always conscious / unconscious agenda... luckily I have time, so if I believe person is worthy, I still try to figure it out with them what they want. And if it is really to just see me in misery for some odd reason (they believe I deserve it or I've somehow "hurt them"), hey, sometimes I can oblige so they can be happy.

But in the long run - really hard to keep observing the success of someone that you hate.

bitcoinpoorguy 比特幣傢伙 🇭🇰 10mo ago

So sad..

Take care Lyn !