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Countertrolling is more fun, though :(
You can't countertroll someone who's just spitting hate.
You vastly underestimate my abilities
Ok, Anakin.
are you okay anakin?
You've been hit by
You've been struck by
Light-based weaponry
Have you got any examples? Because in my experience a lot of the time people who are block happy just happen to have extreme views they refuse to have challenged and rather just stick their heads in the sand so they don't ever have to entertain the possibility that they're wrong.
Blocking just creates echo chambers, leading to group think effects and fanaticism.
Yeah, even in instances where one side is clearly right, it's still important to be challenged often enough to know exactly why it's right. As soon as you're comfortable enough with "knowing" something is right without being able to explain why, you risk believing things that "feel" correct but might not be. You don't have to actually argue with trolls, but you should still see and process their arguments enough to formulate a counterargument in your head that would stand up to a hypothetical person arguing in good faith.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. But in this case I one of the two trolls was spamming pornographic images, in which case I don’t think theres any issue with blocking
No! Argue with the porn! Haha, yeah, definitely block that kind of crap.
https://t.feddit.org/modlog?other_person_id=13878687
I did not make this post out of nothing. The accout with that modlog was created and just started to spam maximally offensive transphobic shitposts over multiple communities. And because people started to comment and argue with that account, I felt some should be reminded to not feed trolls.
I saw another account from the same instance spamming porn, it probably is one trolls self hosted instance the instance should probably be banned.