Timeline for How should we handle possible trolling questions?
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| Mar 26, 2015 at 1:02 | vote | accept | Simon Forsberg | ||
| Oct 6, 2014 at 0:01 | comment | added | rolfl Mod | Well, in general, don't answer too. Trolling questions will generally be deleted, along with any answers, so what's the point? Your answer was deleted too, along with the 55 rep you 'won' on it. Now, in this particular case, the only thing of merit that can come is that you have the potential to earn an "Enlightened" badge by reviewing bad "Gay" content. There is a 'punny' thing in that... How about if you made it a "Hot Gay Question"? There is no up-side for Code Review to host content that content like that, whether your answer was a good review or not. | |
| Oct 5, 2014 at 23:56 | comment | added | Simon Forsberg | @rolfl You're saying a lot about commenting, what about answering? | |
| Oct 5, 2014 at 23:53 | comment | added | Edward | Don't comment; don't engage. We should hand out buttons with that printed on them. This same debate has gone on for many decades, from fidonet, usenet, irc, etc. and invariably ends by arriving at exactly this same strategy: Don't feed the trolls! | |
| Oct 5, 2014 at 23:50 | comment | added | rolfl Mod | A real troll hopes for only one thing: to engage with someone and drag them in to a debate, conversation or even better, a fight. At each opportunity they will try to prod, evoke, or otherwise manipulate people in to giving them credibility of some sort. Not commenting, and not responding, is the same as not giving oxygen to a fire. | |
| Oct 5, 2014 at 23:47 | comment | added | Simon Forsberg | You say "don't comment". Would you say that this and this comment has been harmful? (Considering only the original comment itself, not any further comments by non-OPs) | |
| Oct 5, 2014 at 23:43 | history | answered | rolflMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |