Elderly Woman Taunted and Bullied by the Teens she was Supervising

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Trolling came from a fishing term where a person puts out bait and hopes a fish will bite. Now the smart fish does not bite but the dumb fish bites every time. Seems the solution is to not bite... in the context of fishing.
 
chickened said:
Trolling came from a fishing term where a person puts out bait and hopes a fish will bite. Now the smart fish does not bite but the dumb fish bites every time. Seems the solution is to not bite... in the context of fishing.
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In the present context, it's internet trolling as defined by Wikipedia:

In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory,[2] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[3] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[4] The noun troll may refer to the provocative message itself, as in: "That was an excellent troll you posted."
While the word troll and its associated verb trolling are associated with Internet discourse, media attention in recent years has made such labels subjective, with trolling describing intentionally provocative actions and harassment outside of an online context. For example, mass media has used troll to describe "a person who defaces Internet tribute sites with the aim of causing grief to families."
 
chickened said:
Trolling came from a fishing term where a person puts out bait and hopes a fish will bite. Now the smart fish does not bite but the dumb fish bites every time. Seems the solution is to not bite... in the context of fishing.
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A phrase across the internet is 'Do not feed the Trolls'. It means do not respond to them, since they feed off of your responses and will only prod you more to get more food. The easiest way to get rid of them is to simply not respond.
Trolls have a name for people who are almost guaranteed to respond, LOLcows. They metaphorically milk responses out of these easily upset people by frequently posting comments to anger them. Some more elaborate trolls will befriend a victim on one account, and attack them from another, or have multiple friends join them, playing the person for as long as they find it entertaining.

As for the activity on the internet, do we blame parents, do we blame kids, do we blame anyone at all? Parents can keep kids offline at home, but can they keep them offline at school or at a friend's house? Kids can choose to not take part in trolling, but will they when pressured by friends to join in? Perhaps we should blame those who opened the internet to the public, allowing people to freely use it for whatever purpose they choose?
I don't think blame can really be laid properly in one place. Parents should teach their kids to be respectful and that what is posted on the internet can come back to bite them on the butt. Kids should know better than to give in to the pressures of unsavory friends and uncomfortable deeds. Being a decent person is the responsibility of the parent and the child, online and offline. A parent can only do so much to insure that their kid is a decent member of society, it's up to the kid to uphold those teachings and carry through with being respectable.
 
Ferrret said:
A phrase across the internet is 'Do not feed the Trolls'. It means do not respond to them, since they feed off of your responses and will only prod you more to get more food. The easiest way to get rid of them is to simply not respond.
Trolls have a name for people who are almost guaranteed to respond, LOLcows. They metaphorically milk responses out of these easily upset people by frequently posting comments to anger them. Some more elaborate trolls will befriend a victim on one account, and attack them from another, or have multiple friends join them, playing the person for as long as they find it entertaining.

As for the activity on the internet, do we blame parents, do we blame kids, do we blame anyone at all? Parents can keep kids offline at home, but can they keep them offline at school or at a friend's house? Kids can choose to not take part in trolling, but will they when pressured by friends to join in? Perhaps we should blame those who opened the internet to the public, allowing people to freely use it for whatever purpose they choose?
I don't think blame can really be laid properly in one place. Parents should teach their kids to be respectful and that what is posted on the internet can come back to bite them on the butt. Kids should know better than to give in to the pressures of unsavory friends and uncomfortable deeds. Being a decent person is the responsibility of the parent and the child, online and offline. A parent can only do so much to insure that their kid is a decent member of society, it's up to the kid to uphold those teachings and carry through with being respectable.
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Nicely put and, at last, we are back on topic.

Kids experiment and test boundaries. They make mistakes and must learn from them. They have to learn that there are consequences to their actions. Even the worst behaved usually turn out to be decent members of society. The behaviour of these particular kids was extreme, short of physical violence. If they are to learn from the incident, they must suffer an appropriate consequence. I can't suggest what that might be because I don't know enough about their circumstances or the options available but I hope that it's to a degree that would not disadvantage them for life. By that I mean expelling from the school or gaining a criminal record.
 
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