Dealing with Flame Wars and Internet TrollsThis is a featured page

Flame Wars

A combination of varied personalities, along with the anonymity of the computer presence, will inevitably lead to online arguments between users. While it is great to encourage healthy debates on your wiki, an outright "flame war" is a problem that spreads quickly. The easiest way to stop hurtful and personal attacks on discussion threads is to delete the thread or post in question. Secondly, registered users who are repeatedly causing problems can be permanently banned from the site.
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Please Do Not Feed The Trolls

Do not feed the troll
Someone who purposely joins an online community to cause problems and to irritate other users is often referred to as a "troll". The easiest way to get rid of a troll is to not feed him, i.e. do not encourage a trouble maker by responding. It is your heated response that fuels a troll - they want you to notice them. They want you to be irritated.
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What to do

Don't give them the satisfaction. Instead, delete any troll-like comments they post and if other users are responding to the troll, suggest to those users (in private, if possible) that they should ignore them, as well. Soon, the troll will grow bored and move onto another site.
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If you think the troll has moved to another Wetpaint website, contact the site's moderator as soon as possible and alert them the presence of a trouble maker; this can be accomplished by clicking on "To-Dos & Activity Reports" (on the left side of all Wetpaint sites) and sending a message or posting a discrete comment on the moderator's profile. Try not to be too dramatic in your message or comment, as this might make your warning seem less credible.


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Anonymous iNTERNET TROLLS. 1 Nov 30 2010, 11:05 AM EST by Maxwilly
 
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I have a great way to deal with trolls. Whatever they say to you,...just reply back with, "What did you mean by that" then sit back and count how many times you can do this to him before "stupid" catches on and leaves. LATEST count, 10.
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Sapletree ????? 10 Sep 24 2010, 8:38 PM EDT by Sapletree
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If someone asked you a personal question do you response and this guy, Welvs, which was just banned a couple days ago said he was twelve and was asking me CRAZY amounts a wed and inopropiet questions. Luckly since I'm like two years older than him and is not a stupid person I ignored it BUT lied about my information. I didn't know what to do because I kept getting messages after message from him. And ifni said something mean tothe guy, he could of said a dirt lie on me to get banned or something. But like I said hens already banned but I'm still just curius.
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Anonymous what if people think you a troll if you aren't trying to be? 2 Aug 17 2010, 3:09 PM EDT by shadowmlb
 
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I've encountered this problem numerous times because I simply say I'm hetro and I think being gay is boring. please help...............
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