# Do trolls get to you emotionally? If so, how do you deal with it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 25, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-trolls-get-to-you-emotionally-if-so-how-do-you-deal-with-it/667143 "2013-08-25T18:40:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-trolls-get-to-you-emotionally-if-so-how-do-you-deal-with-it/667143/8 "2013-08-25T22:27:10Z")
Looking back at that birther thread again, I see many people decried **Marley23** for banning the troll, as so many people were having so much fun kicking the troll around. In a later post, **Marley23** defended his action as a mercy banning: > [@Orly Taitz resurfaces in New Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orly-taitz-resurfaces-in-new-hampshire/603633/347): > > I explained this already, but in addition to being abusive, she was complete detached from reality. And in fact the other posters did a better job of follow the rules than she did, which isn’t surprising since most of the people who were talking to her are long-time posters. **Dopers enjoy playing with somebody like that for a short time, but it gets old. I consider it pretty much a mercy banning.** (Bold added.) And this was a good 300+ posts into the thread! 😛 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-trolls-get-to-you-emotionally-if-so-how-do-you-deal-with-it/667143)._