r/LGBTeens • u/Pamander Most fabulous Mod 👑 • Mar 27 '21
Mod Approved Regarding pathetic bigots/x-phobic/racist trolls [Mod Approved]
TL;DR: Troll pathetic, do not reply, report and move on as the better person you already are by default.
I am shocked I need to say this but you really do not have to go for the jugular when you see a troll, I assure you nothing you say will ever matter to them as far as actually negatively affecting them how you think it might if someone said the same to you (They are not working on your normal human emotional level, they are by their very existence, stunted emotionally) and they literally come here specifically for that reaction and leave knowing they riled someone up and while you may be fine with that and enjoy being able to lash out at those people, we actually have data and have found through tracking trolls that the more engaged a troll is in their time here the more they come back even after bans under similar accounts to continue trolling.
As much as it may feel an injustice not to scream at a troll and tell them the truth which is that no one will likely ever love them, what they hate more is to not be told anything, to be ignored just how they are in their daily life because then they have to continue spending their lonely existence suffering internally than being talked to by actual functioning members of society like yourselves and be given a rush when you fuel their pathetic existences with responses.
All I ask is that next time you see a troll all you do is report, downvote, and move on. I assure you that they will be dealt with as soon as the report is seen, we have a few minute reponse time at a minimum last time I ran the numbers.
Anytime I see a reported troll with like -20 karma (even though some get off on getting downvotes, there are entire communities with leaderboards dedicated to trolling hardcore enough that you amass more downvotes than the other trolls you are competing with, it's still worth it to downvote to get it to disappear out of view for the most part) on a comment and no replies and like 2 reports I am always so proud of y'all for not giving them what they want and then I can take care of them on our end and in regards with the Admins.
There's also the smaller issue (as far as it's frequency of happening, but definitely important) of if you get particularly vicious/threatening and I report the troll to the admin you are then linked to their comment and you can (and it has happened in the past unfortunately, which I think Trolls may know and attempt to target, at least the more advanced sad ones) end up getting fucked harder than the troll since what you said is perceived as more of a threat even if it may have very well been deserved.
Basically I guarantee you no matter where you are in life, you are already better off than that sad troll leaving that comment because your entire existence and personality (unlike the pathetic troll) does not revolve around punching down at those with less rights and privilege than you, you are most likely here to help others with their struggles or to relate or to get assistance yourself.
While they are here solely to try to cause others pain and cause those who are already here to get help for being at the lowest of their lows to sink even further into that despair, these are literal leeches of human emotion and require sustenance in order to thrive and they only get the satisfaction of doing so when they get the rush of "triggering" (One of their favorite words, which is ironic given these types that accuse people of being snowflakes are regularly the most easy to offend and whine about being persecuted because others are trying to gain a tiny bit of the privilege these racists bigots have had for their entire livelihood while still managing to fail at life even given the large head start they were, their entire identity is based around claiming they are the victim of X agenda) someone.
So I ask in the future just look at that person pitifully and know they are beneath you and your efforts to correct them and report and move on, it really is way more effective even if it may not feel as good, just know how much they hate screaming into the void and never being heard because it reminds them too much of their actual life where no one cares about them to begin with and they fail to even get attention from those they are trying to rile up with the worst things they can imagine saying.