A.T.S.O.F Article: About this spot

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posted by knifewrench

This spot was created because our wonderful internet village of Fanpop has been infected with trollitis. If you are not familiar with the term "trolls" then allow me to explain: an internet troll is a person who goes on a site or views a video just for the sake of insulting someone's interests, contributions or opinions.

Trolls are very hurtful. Even though we know our content isn't bad, it still feels awful to see that 1-star rating on content we have added.

Quite a few trolls have been popping up on Fanpop (excuse the pun) and rating many a contribution as "1 star" which are worthy of at least three stars. The aim in this spot is to notify others of recent troll activity and boost the rating on content/spots which have become victims of trollism.

Good luck, and happy ratings! (MAN! That was cheesey!)
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We are now a few days into the spot and I read a soapbox article from Dazl: link

It made me think about what we are working towards: a fairly rated website. And I realised that wasn't enough, we need to stop trolls from being mean in comment form as well as rating form. If you see someone being mean to another user, please inform other members of the A.T.S.O.F and we'll do what we can to sort out the problem; as mentioned in ThinkPink20's soapbox (link) we can help the situation by: reporting the user, taking sides with the victim, sending the victim supportive emails or politley ask the troll to not be horrible.

inespinto, scififan and 21 others like this

DarkSarcasm Good idea, Knifewrench. For some reason, when I saw the name of the spot and started poking around, I got a mental picture of The Janitor fighting off the troll in Harry Potter with his mighty knifewrench. LOL. =D

Cinders An excellent idea, knifewrench, like I said before! I just wanted to say, I rated this a four because it's short, but it has a very good message. I rated your other one a five because I thought it was an exquisite idea! Just to get into the habit of explaining my ratings. Even ones that aren't so poor.

knifewrench Thanks Cinders :) My "about this spot" articles are usually short, maybe I should try to make longer ones in the future.....

shoko I am a fan!!! :-)

dazl I applaud. Mostly because I got a namecheck. No, seriously, its a great idea and I am wholeheartedly behind it. With my sack of doorknobs. No user should ever have to take abuse.

DrDevience That Cinders is such a troll...

knifewrench Lol!

Cinders You're gay, DrDevience!

meeee knifewrench someone is cyberbulling DrDevience ahem(Cinders)and I expect you to deal with it! Great soapbox 5stars

Cinders You're gay too, meeee! Yeah, I said it. Suck it. (PS: It's all good-- I hope we're all gay! That is to say, happy. ;o))

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I Think There's a Troll on the Renesmee Carlie Cullen Fanclub

posted by sapherequeen

Hi everyone...
I'm Ciera aka sapherequeen.

I just wanted to bring up this problem I now have with another user (I don't want to say names because I believe in privacy of others). This user has recently joined fanpop, and overrall she's been very rude. She leaves extremely offensive comments on some images, and if these comments are not offensive, they can surely upset the person who has posted them. Her most severe comments are posted with images of 11-year-old actress Bella Thorne. Also, some of the photos she commented on were posted by the parents of the children in the pictures. This greatly...

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the meanest of all trolls

posted by amazondebs

the meanest of all trolls i do believe is the comment troll as although getting bad ratings and not receiving your medals can be frustrating i don't think it's as upsetting as having somebody personally attack you

unfortunately the comment troll is a troll that has appeared in all of us at one point or another weather it has been because we have lost our temper with somebody or we have indulged in feeding another troll or someone has offended you completely by mistake and we have retaliated. Either way being a comment troll can upset many people with out you sometimes even realizing it.

the best...

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The Perfect Paradigm of Parody: Imitating the Internet Troll

posted by Cinders

Sad, but true.

Now one may have noticed I've been doing a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde on this spot, imitating the Internet Troll. Well, it started when link. And it's common knowledge that the best form of mockery (or is it the lowest form of humor?) is imitation.

This joke is at its best when performed in the presence of a troll. It confuses them and they cock their heads and look at you funny, wondering if they're staring in the mirror or not.

Like I've said before somewhere, trolls have IQs in the negative to go with their negative personality. Ironically, that's one of the things that makes them impossible...