(no subject)

[lliira]

Why do people in this year of 2018 still persist in thinking that trolls wouldn't do something that takes a lot of time? Whyyyyy it's like thinking the earth is flat at this point.

Comments

[silveradept]

I think people are starting to stall out at the idea that now you don't have to spend a whole lot of time trolling someone and the effect can be immense -- because computers and networks of computers and networks of trolls with computers can very easily create all sorts of hell with only a little effort. We're not quite as good as we could be about understanding the scale.

[lliira]

Even back when I was first on the internet in the mid-90s, one terrible troll could wreak havoc. (And I saw one terrible troll do it for years -- I'm sure she's still at it.) That was with moderated forums and an insistence on usernames and all that. Now, with Tumblr and Twitter and Facebook, the internet must seem an endless feast to that kind of person.