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[โ€“] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ragebait. It's boring and pointless, and it brings out the worst in everyone. I never understood the appeal of being a "troll" though, so idk.

Something else I don't miss, and maybe this is a little more personal, but often when I would try to participate in a conversation, my comment would get auto-removed for some rule/etiquette based reason I could never really wrap my head around. Like, derailing? I thought I knew what that meant, but had comments removed when I was like, "yeah that answer really resonates with me too! My 123 is xyz."

Lemmy so far has been much more welcoming to the neurodiverse and I appreciate the organic, freeflowing nature of conversation here.

Obviously, if someone's being provocatively hateful / an obvious troll, then nuke 'em.

But if people are just trying to join in on the conversation, don't be a pedantic dick about exactly what kind of conversation is allowed. It had gotten to the point where I was afraid to comment at all for fear I'd be doing it wrong.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think being a troll should go like this, and I'll use the wiae Tom Scott's words here because he summed it up pretty well

"it turns out that while mocking the government is a reasonably good gag, mocking the government and then having the government not find it funny, that is a really good gag."

The moral here, don't just troll random people with lives to life. Troll the government and arsehole corporations.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The second release of Morbius was the kind of trolling I love to see.