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What you've been witnessing over the past few days posted by the caricature of a raving, rabid, druken lunatic was nothing more than one of many social expiriments to study the solidarity and resiliance of internet communities and their responses to trolls and to educate on dealing with these pests. I've been doing this for years. The purpose is to assess an internet forum's troll resistance. All too many communities are damaged by the presence of trolls. Someone will pretend to have genuine interest in joining the community, while at the same time stirring controversy. This user will post what's known as "flamebait", or deliberately provocative messages in order to disrupt the harmony of the community and redirect the posters from the forum's intended purpose to piling onto the troll.

Trolls have been plaguing internet communities since Usenet debuted on May 11, 1981. In those 26 years, even though some have learned how to deal with trolling, others still have not learned effective ways to dispose of the disruptive element. Here's a wikipedia article that will provide you with more information on the problem.

Troll (Internet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I hate to say it, but your community is highly prone to troll disruption. Whenever you suspect that you have a troll on your hands, the best thing that you can do is contact your forum's administrator, explain the problem, and suggest an appropriate course of action (such as an account ban). A clever solution that I noticed on one forum was the merging of all troll accounts into a single account simply called "Troll". Unfortunately, you gave the trolling charachter exactly what he wanted.

I sincerely apologize to all who may feel that they are "collateral damage" from this expiriment, or may feel "used" or "played". My intent was only to educate. I hope that all of you have gained insight on how to effectively deal with disturbing elements in your community. I would like you to answer a few optional questions, so that I may use your feedback to improve my testing when I use it on the next "test subject" community.

1. How effective and accurate was the troll simulation in your own opinion? Do you have any suggestions on how to improve upon what I have already created?
2. Have you had any past experiences with trolls? Has your reaction changed to the internet troll after each experience?
3. What fundamental elements have helped sustain your community? Do you feel that "attacks" help to weaken or strengthen these bonds?

And with that, I'm afraid that this social expiriment on your community is done. I actually think that you have a great community here, and I believe that if you can eliminate your tendancy to "[Zeke] the trolls", you will have the potential to last a long time on the world wide web. And who knows? I may actually return someday as myself to participate.

I wish all of you the best of luck in the present and future with your community.
 
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What you've been witnessing over the past few days posted by the caricature of a raving, rabid, druken lunatic was nothing more than one of many social expiriments to study the solidarity and resiliance of internet communities and their responses to trolls and to educate on dealing with these pests. I've been doing this for years. The purpose is to assess an internet forum's troll resistance. All too many communities are damaged by the presence of trolls. Someone will pretend to have genuine interest in joining the community, while at the same time stirring controversy. This user will post what's known as "flamebait", or deliberately provocative messages in order to disrupt the harmony of the community and redirect the posters from the forum's intended purpose to piling onto the troll.

Trolls have been plaguing internet communities since Usenet debuted on May 11, 1981. In those 26 years, even though some have learned how to deal with trolling, others still have not learned effective ways to dispose of the disruptive element. Here's a wikipedia article that will provide you with more information on the problem.

Troll (Internet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I hate to say it, but your community is highly prone to troll disruption. Whenever you suspect that you have a troll on your hands, the best thing that you can do is contact your forum's administrator, explain the problem, and suggest an appropriate course of action (such as an account ban). A clever solution that I noticed on one forum was the merging of all troll accounts into a single account simply called "Troll". Unfortunately, you gave the trolling charachter exactly what he wanted.

I sincerely apologize to all who may feel that they are "collateral damage" from this expiriment, or may feel "used" or "played". My intent was only to educate. I hope that all of you have gained insight on how to effectively deal with disturbing elements in your community. I would like you to answer a few optional questions, so that I may use your feedback to improve my testing when I use it on the next "test subject" community.

1. How effective and accurate was the troll simulation in your own opinion? Do you have any suggestions on how to improve upon what I have already created?
2. Have you had any past experiences with trolls? Has your reaction changed to the internet troll after each experience?
3. What fundamental elements have helped sustain your community? Do you feel that "attacks" help to weaken or strengthen these bonds?

And with that, I'm afraid that this social expiriment on your community is done. I actually think that you have a great community here, and I believe that if you can eliminate your tendancy to "[Zeke] the trolls", you will have the potential to last a long time on the world wide web. And who knows? I may actually return someday as myself to participate.

I wish all of you the best of luck in the present and future with your community.
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