• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Reminds me of the mass blocker and mass tagger wars

    Someone on twitter created a tool that auto blocks anyone who followed at least 2 of five specific users, and found that it basically entirely shut down the gamer gaters and began spreading the tool to other users.

    You can imagine that the gamergaters were less than pleased to see their harassment campaign being obstructed, and even less happy to find out how simply they could all be categorized and dismissed.

    • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      People totally underestimate how infuriated trolls get when they’re ignored. They want any attention, even negative. Just block them and move on, it works wonders.