About ten years ago, discussion forums (on ANY topic) started picking up a lot of mentally defective posters who, relishing the anonymity of the internet, tried to boost their own self-esteem by disrupting discussion threads with non sequiturs, profanity, racist and bigoted screeds, pornography (once they could post photos and videos), and personal attacks slandering and libeling other posters.
The first, best defense is simply to ignore ANY and ALL posts by such folks, whether they seem reasonable or not, because the thing these folks crave most is attention. Without attention, they soon tire of the game and move on to more fertile ground.
The second best defense is to appeal separately to the webmaster hosting the website to remove the offensive posts and ban the poster.
Making such an appeal within the discussion thread, itself, just feeds the troll’s psychosis.
About trolls on discussion forums:
About ten years ago, discussion forums (on ANY topic) started picking up a lot of mentally defective posters who, relishing the anonymity of the internet, tried to boost their own self-esteem by disrupting discussion threads with non sequiturs, profanity, racist and bigoted screeds, pornography (once they could post photos and videos), and personal attacks slandering and libeling other posters.
The first, best defense is simply to ignore ANY and ALL posts by such folks, whether they seem reasonable or not, because the thing these folks crave most is attention. Without attention, they soon tire of the game and move on to more fertile ground.
The second best defense is to appeal separately to the webmaster hosting the website to remove the offensive posts and ban the poster.
Making such an appeal within the discussion thread, itself, just feeds the troll’s psychosis.