Don't Feed the Trolls

Assignment Two

Richardson, K. (2008). Don’t feed the trolls: Using blogs to teach civil discourse. Learning & Leading with Technology, 35(7), 12-15.

Find at least one more article that furthers the discussion on Blogs. Tell us where it can be located and describe what you found helpful about it.

I found a helpful article, “Beware the Troll”. I found it helpful because it is a practical guide that discusses what a troll is and how to deal with a troll.  The article defines to troll is a means to allure, to fish, to entice or to bait.  Internet trolls are people who fish for other people’s confidence and try to exploit it. “Beware the Troll” lists the four different types of trolls:

Playtime Trolls: an individual plays a simple, short game. Such trolls are relatively easy to spot because their attack or provocation is fairly blatant, and the persona is fairly two-dimensional.

Tactical Trolls: This is where the troller takes the game more seriously, creates a credible persona to gain confidence of others, and provokes strife in a subtle and invidious way.

Strategic Trolls: A very serious form of game, involving the production of an overall strategy that can take months or years to develop. It can also involve a number of people acting together in order to invade a list.

Domination Trolls: This is where the trollers' strategy extends to the creation and running of apparently bona-fide mailing lists.

http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/troll.htm