The effect created by such Internet trolls is not very big, but they manage to make certain forums meaningless because people stop commenting on the articles when these trolls sit there and constantly create an aggressive, hostile atmosphere toward those whom they don’t like. The trolls react to certain news with torrents of mud and abuse. This makes it meaningless for a reasonable person to comment on anything there. (https://web.archive.org/web/20131013012755/http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=100&story_id=38052)
Of course it’s hard to separate people who are being cocks just because they’re cocks, from someone who is being a cock for some particular purpose, and maybe it’s not that useful to try to distinguish. Maybe this person really just revels in causing other people to get mad at them. But it is weird that they’re working so hard on so transparently trying to make the experience on Lemmy worse, and it’s also weird that LW is providing a safe space for them to do it in.
Lemmy.world has never been good about dealing with assholes and trolls for most of the time they’ve been around. It took them more than a year to ban @[email protected] permanently, and they never banned some of their more egregious trolls period, or they even unbanned them after being banned.
Of course it’s hard to separate people who are being cocks just because they’re cocks, from someone who is being a cock for some particular purpose, and maybe it’s not that useful to try to distinguish. Maybe this person really just revels in causing other people to get mad at them. But it is weird that they’re working so hard on so transparently trying to make the experience on Lemmy worse, and it’s also weird that LW is providing a safe space for them to do it in.
Lemmy.world has never been good about dealing with assholes and trolls for most of the time they’ve been around. It took them more than a year to ban @[email protected] permanently, and they never banned some of their more egregious trolls period, or they even unbanned them after being banned.