NaokoSmith
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The best way to deal with trolls is not to give them any oxygen, to ignore them. Sometimes, though, this is difficult to do. Sometimes the troll posts something vicious which you worry other people will believe. Sometimes the troll posts in a way that gets to you, and you can’t bear not to respond. You know it would be best not to get into it, but you can’t bear not to. Sometimes you can’t resist making some smarty-pants reply although afterwards when the troll gleefully gets back in their thread to say their stupid things again, you wish you hadn’t.
Maybe one way to get round that would be to use an emoji. Maybe we could ask for a new anti-troll emoji? Then when a troll says something cr#p about us, we can post a pile of poo emoji.
My reservation about the pile of poo emoji is that the trolls will start using them against us too, and I personally don’t want troll poo thrown at me.
Another one I have used successfully in the past is buns. When the trolls are picking on someone, I used to say ‘oooh a bunfight,’ and post pictures of buns in the thread, then sometimes people started laughing and the troll poo throwing stopped. So we could have a bun emoji.
Maybe we could use the smiley face. So it would go something like:
Troll: Naoko Smith is poo!
NS:
Vote on which you think would be most effective, feel free to post your own ideas, and - if any trolls come in - to throw smileys at them.

Maybe one way to get round that would be to use an emoji. Maybe we could ask for a new anti-troll emoji? Then when a troll says something cr#p about us, we can post a pile of poo emoji.
My reservation about the pile of poo emoji is that the trolls will start using them against us too, and I personally don’t want troll poo thrown at me.
Another one I have used successfully in the past is buns. When the trolls are picking on someone, I used to say ‘oooh a bunfight,’ and post pictures of buns in the thread, then sometimes people started laughing and the troll poo throwing stopped. So we could have a bun emoji.
Maybe we could use the smiley face. So it would go something like:
Troll: Naoko Smith is poo!
NS:
Vote on which you think would be most effective, feel free to post your own ideas, and - if any trolls come in - to throw smileys at them.
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