Not responding to trolls is not cowardice

 There was a time I rather enjoyed agitating the trolls, but in recent years, I have discovered it is far more fun to block trolls. Trolls are simple-minded creatures. They post negative remarks in hopes it upsets you. They imagine you see their post, pound your fist on your desk or cry or throw things, and they get off on these thoughts. They NEED you to validate their pathetic existence. Thus, ignoring them drives them mad because they receive no satisfaction whatsoever from the effort they put into the trolling. For a while they get more desperate. This troll is trying to appeal to my ego now by making explicit threats then claiming I'm a "coward" for not giving him a platform to make his threats. 

But there is nothing cowardly about blocking an online nuisance. In fact, it is satisfying knowing that person wasted a lot of time to make multiple accounts that were deleted with a couple of clicks. 

It takes far more time for someone to create a new profile than it takes to block someone, so they wasted far more time setting up the barrage of nasty comments than it does to remove the offensive comments. Blocking someone on social media generally removes all their comments from your personal pages. 

I've already written extensively about trolls and how to deal with them at oncefallen.com:

https://oncefallen.com/protect-yourself-from-vigilantes/

In recent years I've had one or possible a pair of trolls completely obsessed with me. I've even discussed them (at least in passing) on this blog. BUT, I don't engage them. When they pop up on my social media posts, I block them. See the screenshots below as an example. 

This threat was very explicit. This isn't the first threat I ever received from this clown but this one is perhaps the most brazen. 

It should be noted that Facebook recently (around Oct. 1, 2022) changed the method of reporting/blocking trolls so it took a little while to figure it out, especially since they don't do a good job of explaining how to do it. But there is still a method to quickly block a troll who posts a nasty comment on your profile:

1. Scroll over the name of the person you wish to block. A bubble will appear expanding that person's profile and you should see a big button that says "See Options." 
2. Click the "See Options" button and a new bubble appears with two options, "Find Support or Report" and "Block." 
3. If you click "Block", Facebook will give you the option to simply block that account, or block that account AND block any other potential accounts that person might make. (Makes sense to choose the latter.) 
   

If using Facebook Messenger:

1. You have to click on "View Profile," and once you're on the troll's profile page, on the options banner just below the name of the profile, at the far right you'll see a bubble with three dots aligned horiziontally, and when you click it, a new bubble appears with two options, "Find Support or Report" and "Block."
2. If you click "Block", Facebook will give you the option to simply block that account, or block that account AND block any other potential accounts that person might make. (Makes sense to choose the latter.)

That should block all offending personal Facebook accounts as well as many Facebook business pages.

This is an explicit threat so this will be forwarded to law enforcement.  

Maybe soon I can share the audio from the many voicemails this loser sent but Youtube would likely flag it because troll used film clips and a couple of them were racist towards Asian-Americans. 

ADDENDUM: The trolls have been crying all weekend they keep getting blocked. It also seems they're having a little internal strife. I'm enjoying watching them fight amongst each other LOL.