Trolls - Dealing with Them Successfully

The PvP of Live Streaming: Trolls.  In this article we will be discussing the very mindset of trolls and how to deal with them.

“In order to win a battle, one must know thy enemy.”

Trolls have one objective: to mess with a content creator and their mood.  They want to see you crumble to their vulgar behavior and any amount of negative reaction they can extract from you is food for their soul.

Yell at them, argue with them, call them names, get mad at them, be vulgar back at them.  All of this is food.  And, with any scavenging animal, if you give them food they will return to get more of that succulent reaction.

Therefore how does one counter something with such appetite?  The best counter to a troll is laughter.  If you can make banning a troll fun for you and your community, the troll will immediately scurry back to whatever rock it crawled out from under never to return.  Good vibes, laughter, having fun, these are things that are poisonous to a troll.  They want to see your mood in ruins by their action, but if instead their presence is causing you amusement it is tantamount to feeding chocolate to a dog.

Now the question: how does one make a troll's presence fun?  If you can make a game out of banning trolls or rewarding chat with loyalty points or a special channel redemption for whenever a troll is banned.  Make it a fun and silly event.  The sky's the limit for how you wish to do it, but turning a troll's world inside out is a very amusing spectacle.

Become the troll for the troll.