How To Win Against (Russian) Internet Trolls
Allegedly, people working in Russian troll farms have daily norms of how many comments they need to produce. 135 200+ character comments per day get mentioned here.
Making Troll of the Month should be impossible if your content is not generating engagement. And thus, the simplest, most hard to follow rule dealing with internet trolls, in general, emerges:
- pay them no mind
See a Medium article about the genocide of innocent Russians in the Donbas? That has flown under the radar for 8 years? Three dot menu -> Show less like this -> Report -> Mute this author. Hard to restrict your own view this way, but it is the only sane option if you apply Kant to it.
If you get the very human urge to correct someone wrong on the internet, first consider:
- who owns the content you are trying to dispel?
Because if it is the troll or his ally, this is what they will do to your brilliant counterargument that may actually convince a passer-by:
Being reasonably sure you won’t end up screaming into the void, remember to:
- not get emotional
- not let whataboutism steer you off-topic
- not concede points because the troll keeps repeating himself, and you’re tired of…
