{"id":5956,"date":"2009-11-22T18:12:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T03:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=5956"},"modified":"2009-11-22T18:12:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T03:12:49","slug":"my-older-sister-does-not-get-paid-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=5956","title":{"rendered":"My older sister does not get paid enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years, Internet users have been dealing with “trolls<\/a>,” people who deliberately derail online conversations by writing cruel, crude, off-topic, and\/or mean-spirited posts. Different trolls have different motivations, but generally the best way to deal with trolls is to ignore them — thus the Internet saying, “Please do not feed the trolls.”<\/p>\n

But what happens when someone engages in “live-trolling”? For example, a male student showed up in one of my older sister’s college classes wearing a t-shirt that read “I [heart] vaginas.” This is a great example of live trolling — derailing a live conversation (in this case, a college class) with a t-shirt slogan that is obviously intended to piss people off, and distract them from the work of the class. You can read how Jean handled this situation on her blog<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Trolls are not very intelligent life forms, and need to be hit upside the head with a big stick in order to get their attention. When trolls appear on this blog (as has happened once or twice), I usually call them out, give them one chance to apologize, and then when they don’t apologize (trolls are notorious for acting hurt and misunderstood when someone calls them out), I delete their comments — there is no better way to stop the feeding of trolls than to remove their posts. I’m sorry that Jean is not able to treat live-trolls in her classroom the way I treat online trolls in this blog. She does not get paid enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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