I am still banning morons all the time on here. It’s so much fun! I love it almost more than anything else in the whole world! Thing is, I stopped letting them post first and then banning them.Although it was so fun to give people the HAND, I got tired of it and it started upsetting me. Also I thought perhaps it was putting across a bad impression of me.
Instead, if I see the bannable post in the moderation or spam queue, I simply ban them right on the spot and delete the post. Real simple! I found that by doing this, the banned idiots no longer get on my nerves for some reason, possibly because I do not make their posts public.
I honestly think all bloggers should do this. Sure they won’t all do it, but if even most of them did it, just think how different things could be! Honestly, how many people would post any comment to any blog ever if they were pretty certain that it would never see the light of day. Granted, some scum are so evil that they would post anyway full well knowing that the post would never be printed, possibly just to annoy the blog owner by forcing him to read the insulting comment. I have one piece of crap who continues to do this, although he was banned long ago.
He apparently knows full well that none of his comments will ever be posted, and he is banned, so all his posts go in the spam queue. Nevertheless he posts all the time just to insult me. He is a Democratic Party liberal and he absolutely hates me, which shows what sort of relations I typically have with Democratic Party liberals – they despise me. In fact, some Democratic Party websites have explicit bans on linking to my site – my site is on a list of sites that may never be linked to.
But honestly, for most trolls, the only reason they post an attacking or insulting comment is because they know it will show up on the site and will embarass or humiliate the blog owner. But if commenters knew there was a less than 50% chance that their insults would appear at all, don’t you think a lot of people would stop making insulting or attacking comments? It might be an interesting social experiment.
On another level, I am absolutely mystified at why people leave attacking and insulting comments on websites in the first place. Sure it’s fun if you’re an awful person or a sadist, but otherwise, why bother. Unfortunately, I have done this myself a few times, but that has happened only very rarely.
Although I read things that anger me quite often, I almost never think, “I am going to leave a rude, insulting, attacking comment that tears this blogger to shreds.” Why should I do that? Why bother? I don’t care how outrageous their opinions are, I still would not leave an attacking opinion. What’s the point? Anyway, at the end of the day, it’s just some regular person with an unpleasant point of view and people like that are everywhere. How much harm are they really doing spouting off about this, that or whatever?
I suppose I don’t understand why people even troll in the first place unless they never left high school psychologically.