5. The correct way to defeat trolls! Get a mod. Mute (usually helps). Ignore. Do not feed the trolls. (Do not caps lock at them, do not attack them with your words or anything else to fuel their rage.)
6. Random facts about trolls. The most likely derivation of the word troll can be found in the phrase "trolling for newbies", popularized in the early 1990s in the Usenet group, alt.folklore.urban (AFU).Commonly, what is meant is a relatively gentle inside joke by veteran users, presenting questions or topics that had been so overdone that only a new user would respond to them earnestly Early incidences of such behavior was first seen in open-access forums in California, on a series of modem-linked computers in the 1970s, like CommuniTreewhich when accessed by high school teenagers became a ground for trashing and abuse.
