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How To Deal With Internet Bullies?
creyes123 writes "I run a free website with an online model airplane design calculator. The number of registered users has quickly climbed and I've gotten many compliments. Out of nowhere, a fellow shows up and proceeds to bad mouth the calculator in a posting in one of my forums. After I politely point out that he's mistaken and should have looked at the documentation before posting, he changes the subject and bad mouths a different 'flaw.' The cycle repeats a few more times, with no apparent end in sight. I want to encourage folks to share their opinions, but constructive criticism was clearly not his goal. I feel that the whole episode was just a massive time waster for me. What did I do to deserve this? Could I have handled this better?"
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Yes, some people are mean on the internet, that's what IP-bans are for. No, you can't talk them into being nice, you slap an IP-ban on them, delete their posts, and forget about them.
I don't know, I've had to deal with people like that but never anyone that violent or aggressive...I mean criticizing a calculator? Why hasn't someone locked him up already?
Redirect his browser to an illegal porn site (with an IP-specific refresh tag), then call the FBI. BAM!
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I totally disagree with what you just said; further more I would like to add that you smell.
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I fart in your general direction.
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Judging from his first few comments, he's not really right -- he's taking a tool designed for planes using electric motors, trying to make it work for planes using internal combustion engines, then complaining that it won't work, and thus sucks. He also admits that he didn't read the tutorials, expecting them to be worthless. It's like answering an ad for a used car, driving it into the water, then complaining that it was a really crappy boat.
I was thinking, why not give them their own little sandbox, where only users marked as 'troll' could see posts by other trolls?
Isn't that essentially what CraigsList is now?
In my experience banning the troll only agitates it.
I was thinking, why not give them their own little sandbox, where only users marked as 'troll' could see posts by other trolls?
I Browse slashdot at -1 you insensitive clod
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Thanks Dr Phil!
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Great! You recognised the film and you know the next line! You want a fucking medal for that? A fucking parrot can do that.
Well... this parrot is no more!
Where's my fucking medal
Moral of the thread: The best way to deal with internet bullies is to turn around, and go back to banging your coconuts together.
Give this guy a medal - he comes to slashdot and complain about people being "geeky".
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Or 'Hilarious Lizzie', as she is known in these parts.
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something" - Plato
Oh, all high and mighty on your high horse, aren't you eh? Quoting python not good enough for you? Oooh look at me, I'm xkcd, I can turn a bloody brilliant line into a sick joke.
You think you're soooo superior, don't you, with your stick figures prancing about with your fake humanity and your fake romance. And all those pasty inexperience chubby little geeks just eat it right up don't they? They think the sun rises and sets right our of your arse, don't they?
Well let me tell you something. Those pythons worked their fingers to the bone to make a home in this unforgiving world for absurdist satire. They gave up their lives, their families, their careers in science so that you can have a nice laugh in front of the telly.
And this is what you do. You git. You stupid, bloody, heartless git.
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