dealing with haters, and flamers and trolls veronica james
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Dealing with Haters, Dealing with Haters, Flamers and Trolls Flamers and Trolls
Veronica JamesVeronica James @gypsynestergypsynester
/gypsynestersgypsynestersGypsyNester.comGypsyNester.com
You’re an emotionally bankrupt shell of a human being!
Screw You! You’re so selfish – people like you shouldn’t ever have kids!
If I was her husband,
I’d kill her!
Dealing with Haters, Flamers and Trolls
• Visualizing Your Troll• Finding Your Voice• Distinguishing Between Trolls and Garden Gnomes• Harnessing Your Supporters
Dealing with Haters, Flamers and Trolls
http://time.com/8265/internet-trolls-are-actually-sadists-study-finds/ February 2014
Internet Trolls Are Actually Sadists, Study Finds
Dealing with Haters, Flamers and Trolls
What is a Troll?
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886914000324
Trolls Just Want to Have Fun
What is a Troll?
Cyber-trolling appears to be an Internet manifestation of Cyber-trolling appears to be an Internet manifestation of everyday sadism.everyday sadism.
Dealing with Haters, Flamers and Trolls
Who is your Troll?
Dealing with Haters, Flamers and Trolls
Veronica’s Troll
Dealing with Haters, Flamers and Trolls
I’dI’d kill kill her! her! If I was her husband,If I was her husband,
Dealing with Haters, Flamers and Trolls
The Function of YourPersonal Troll
• Comic relief• Takes the sting out of comments• Clears your head for response
Dealing with Haters, Flamers and Trolls
Finding Your Voice
• Who are you?• What are the values of your blog?• Who is your audience?
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Dealing with Haters, Flamers and Trolls
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Dealing with Haters, Flamers and Trolls
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Dealing with Haters, Flamers and Trolls
Dealing with Haters, Flamers and Trolls
Finding Your Voice
• Sex?• Hate?• Politics?• Religion?
It’s just as important to know what you don’t talk about as it is to know what you do talk about
Dealing with Haters, Flamers and Trolls
• Disrespectful toward your subject or fellow commenters?• Off topic or not respectful of the values you’ve established for your blog?• Deliberately trying to cause shi-- nanagans?
Distinguishing Between Trolls and Garden Gnomes
Dealing with Haters, Flamers and Trolls
Distinguishing Between Trolls and Garden
Gnomes• Big Brain?• Is it an opposing view?• Have you hit a nerve?
Dealing with Haters, Flamers and Trolls
Thanking Your Garden Gnomes
• Reading your post• Providing a new perspective• Providing further insight and contributing to the conversation
Dealing with Haters, Flamers and Trolls
Harnessing Supporters
• Let the comment sit• Link the post to your social media channels• Respond to the comment • Write a follow-up post
• Visualize Your Troll• Find Your Voice• Distinguish Between Trolls and Garden Gnomes• Harness Your Supporters
Dealing with Haters, Flamers and Trolls