Drown them out with your voice. By that I mean Ignore their trolling as best you can and post as you like. Skim over the posts of those you come to recognise as trolls/aggravators.nerdlinger wrote: ↑Sun Jan 15, 2023 9:51 amOn the surface this sounds very salutary and high minded, but in practical terms it’s a bit too adjacent to feeding the trolls.
Also it implies I have some sort of social responsibility to spend time with people who treat me badly, to show them how to be better people or something? I think there’s a ceiling for how noble most reasonable people are willing to be.
Sometimes you’ll be triggered and react to them. Brush it off and move on.
Nothing to do with being high minded.
As to whether it is practical, I at least attempt to do what I suggest.
Rozzieoz would love to have driven me off the forum - unfortunately for her, 95% of her posts barely register an emotional response.