It is, though. It is easier than you think. A post may for all the world look like trollery, but if no one bites on it and no one reports it, we just see the tree lying on the forest floor. Mod are sometimes very reactive to a post or posts, but if no one else gets het up over it, they might just ignore it. Because, trolling means nothing if the troll does not get fed.
If this is easy, why did so many in the West who traditionally advocate free speech and the free exchange of ideas panic and reach completely the wrong view on Charlie Hebdo, just because a whole lot of people said “we don’t like this”?
Why have so many on the left in the U.S. lost their way on upholding the principles of free speech?
That’s what happens when you mix a puritanical foundation with an intellectual ideal.
Ah, it is simple! Just DNFTT! Why hasn’t anyone thought of this? I’m sure with such an easy solution, the board’s trolling problem will be gone tomorrow. You get right on the simple process of getting everyone to stop responding, and I’ll kick back and enjoy the bliss.
Two more threads about the app–at what point does this become Harrisment?
…although of course I should have said I agree with you. It’s far more effective to ignore potential provocation than to make a fuss over it and try to get it suppressed.
Effective, yes. Simple as a concept, yes. Simple to put into practice? An emphatic no.
Booooooo 
Or samming, at the very least.
Maybe a future Creamylord will find his ideas more easily spread.
And now cornfielded.
Dammit, I really felt that all our hard work taking the piss should have been recorded for posterity.
And he’s banned
You might even say he was nipped in the Buddh.
Again, I meant that not wanting to be seen as a troll is “simple”. I was not referring to any implementation.
Same with the forcibly departed Clothahump, who was okay when not posting about politics. Being entertained by deliberately pissing people off tripped him up.
And I’m not arguing that either of those two should be immune from future banning. Just that we should be more circumspect about silencing them when they may at least to be sincere.
What part of “a sincere troll is still a troll” do you not get? If one is unable to be sincere without being inflammatory, then one is likely trolling.
I’ve been thinking about this- but remember all those recent complaints about board toxicity? About how people saying bigoted things and no one getting het up over it, about how people are leaving because people aren’t protesting the jerks enough?
How do you say “This is not acceptable here” without feeding the troll?
Mega-cornfielded, I can’t find any trace of the guy