Adi Explains it All: Dealing With Trolls

Lately I’ve been noticing something.  A lot of the humans I’m acquainted with are suddenly and unceremoniously being banned from Facebook for various amounts of time.  The funny thing is, it’s always the humans responding to other humans who deserve to be banned from both social media and, frankly, your entire planet.  I’ve always found this interesting because despite the fact that my human and I go after these same trolls, we’ve never once had to deal with any kind of banishment.  Frankly, the only time I was ever in Twitter jail was when I tried to get myself put in to see what would happen.  My human even tried to get a Facebook ban once, posting the exact same thing another human was banned for posting, and even after asking someone to report him, he couldn’t do it.  I couldn’t help but wonder why that is.

Not too long ago, I think I figured it out.  As much as humans might have their hearts in the right places dealing with assholes, your strategies are completely wrong.  You sink to their level, retaliating against their comments, insult for insult, and that’s not how it works.  The only thing that does is get you banned when the goal is to get them.  How do I know this?  Experience.  I can sit down and spend a weekend on twitter, responding to troll after troll, answering every single comment they post and face absolutely zero consequences for doing so.  Presumably you’d like to know how, so let me share a few things I’ve learned: