Thread:JessicaFin23/@comment-33800845-20180202132333/@comment-24839263-20180202231417

Wow. I can see that quite a few contributors are mad at Anas-PC for uploading pornographic images on the wiki. But I don't think they should verbally punish him for his actions.

Under this logic, trolls are like great white sharks, and their targets' reaction is like chum. The more you throw, the more the shark will get worked up. Stop throwing chum, and eventually the shark will lose interest and leave.

In other words, when you reply to a spammer, troll, or vandal on the Internet, usually angrily and while showing signs of being offended, it could just encourage them to keep going, which will cause an even bigger problem. In order to get them to really stop, you can just report to the admins and/or ignore them completely.

But some people just don't seem to know that, as they reply to trolls showing signs of being angry or offended, which might encourage those trolls to keep bothering them.

But I'm not one of those people. I always ignore vandals and trolls who refuse to listen or follow the rules, and when I'm not an admin on a wiki, I simply report to the people who are admins to block the vandal/spammer/troll.

Some contributors should try that as well. They should keep calm, ignore the vandal, and report to the VSTF so they can block the person who is causing trouble.

Everyone should know that it's not okay to fight fire with fire.