Lord Raffles
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The Troll is immunized against all dangers: one may call him a scoundrel, fraud, swindler, newbie, it all runs off him like water off a raincoat. But call him a Troll and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: "I've been found out."
One cannot defend himself against the Troll. He attacks with lightning speed from his position of safety and uses his abilities to crush any attempt at defense.
Quickly he turns the attacker's charges back on him, and the attacker becomes the liar, the troublemaker, the terrorist. Nothing could be more mistaken than to defend oneself. That is just what the Troll wants. He can invent a new lie every day for the enemy to respond to, and the result is that the enemy spends so much time defending himself that he has no time to do what the Troll really fears: to attack. The accused has become the accuser, and loudly he shoves the accuser into the dock. So it always was in the past decade when a person or a moderator fought the Troll. That is what would happen to us as well were we not fully aware of his nature, and if we lacked the courage to draw the following radical conclusions:
1. One cannot fight the Troll by positive means. He is a negative, and this negative must be erased from the forum, or he will forever corrupt it.
2. One cannot discuss the Troll question with the Troll. One can hardly prove to a person that one has the duty to render him harmless.
3. One cannot allow the Troll the same means one would give an honest opponent, for he is no honorable opponent. He will use generosity and nobility only to trap his enemy.
4. The Troll has nothing to say about forum in questions. He is a foreigner, an alien, who only enjoys the rights of a guest, rights that he always abuses.
5. The so-called libeal morality of the Troll is no morality at all, rather an encouragement to betrayal. Therefore, they have no claim to protection from moderators.
6. The Troll is not smarter than we are, rather only cleverer and craftier. His system cannot be defeated verbally — he follows entirely different moral principles than we do. It can only be broken through force.
7. A Troll cannot insult an individual. Troll slanders are but badges of honor for an opponent of the Troll.
8. The more a community opposes the Troll, the more valuable it is. If someone is attacked by the Troll, that is a sure sign of his virtue. He who is not persecuted by the Troll, or who is praised by them, is useless and dangerous.
9. The Troll evaluates questions from the Troll standpoint. As a result, the opposite of what he says must be true.
10. One must either affirm or reject Trolls. He who defends the Troll harms his own forum. One can only be a Troll lackey or a Troll's opponent. Opposing the Troll is a matter of personal hygiene.
These principles give any community a chance of success against the Troll. Only such a community will be taken seriously by the Troll, and only such a community will be feared by him.
The fact that he shouts and complains about the choices moderators make therefore is only a sign that they are right. We are therefore delighted that we are constantly attacked in the Troll forums far away. They may shout about terror. We answer with the immortal words: "Terror? Never! It is social hygiene". We take these individuals out of circulation just as a doctor does to a bacterium.
One cannot defend himself against the Troll. He attacks with lightning speed from his position of safety and uses his abilities to crush any attempt at defense.
Quickly he turns the attacker's charges back on him, and the attacker becomes the liar, the troublemaker, the terrorist. Nothing could be more mistaken than to defend oneself. That is just what the Troll wants. He can invent a new lie every day for the enemy to respond to, and the result is that the enemy spends so much time defending himself that he has no time to do what the Troll really fears: to attack. The accused has become the accuser, and loudly he shoves the accuser into the dock. So it always was in the past decade when a person or a moderator fought the Troll. That is what would happen to us as well were we not fully aware of his nature, and if we lacked the courage to draw the following radical conclusions:
1. One cannot fight the Troll by positive means. He is a negative, and this negative must be erased from the forum, or he will forever corrupt it.
2. One cannot discuss the Troll question with the Troll. One can hardly prove to a person that one has the duty to render him harmless.
3. One cannot allow the Troll the same means one would give an honest opponent, for he is no honorable opponent. He will use generosity and nobility only to trap his enemy.
4. The Troll has nothing to say about forum in questions. He is a foreigner, an alien, who only enjoys the rights of a guest, rights that he always abuses.
5. The so-called libeal morality of the Troll is no morality at all, rather an encouragement to betrayal. Therefore, they have no claim to protection from moderators.
6. The Troll is not smarter than we are, rather only cleverer and craftier. His system cannot be defeated verbally — he follows entirely different moral principles than we do. It can only be broken through force.
7. A Troll cannot insult an individual. Troll slanders are but badges of honor for an opponent of the Troll.
8. The more a community opposes the Troll, the more valuable it is. If someone is attacked by the Troll, that is a sure sign of his virtue. He who is not persecuted by the Troll, or who is praised by them, is useless and dangerous.
9. The Troll evaluates questions from the Troll standpoint. As a result, the opposite of what he says must be true.
10. One must either affirm or reject Trolls. He who defends the Troll harms his own forum. One can only be a Troll lackey or a Troll's opponent. Opposing the Troll is a matter of personal hygiene.
These principles give any community a chance of success against the Troll. Only such a community will be taken seriously by the Troll, and only such a community will be feared by him.
The fact that he shouts and complains about the choices moderators make therefore is only a sign that they are right. We are therefore delighted that we are constantly attacked in the Troll forums far away. They may shout about terror. We answer with the immortal words: "Terror? Never! It is social hygiene". We take these individuals out of circulation just as a doctor does to a bacterium.
