The best way to deal with a troll ...

It is easier said than done about ignoring people like this.....I know! In another site I was "friends" with someone and when things went sour (she did not believe I was having computor trouble) was the start of it and it blew up from there. To this day I cannot believe the emotional turmoil I went through but did realise that I was not up in the league as far as nasty people go. This person also attacked my family who she did not know, and so I ended up closing my account and the money still in there donated to charity. It is a form of bullying which I can tolerate if I am face to face with someone, but over the internet is very distressing even for an oldie like me! I feel for the young ones who experience this type of thing as I knw the affect it had on me! If it was me now in your situation, I would ignore and report any abuse and try and communicate with those you wish to and hopefully this person will give up! Your other friends' knowing the situation will most likely be able to deal with it themselves.....but it is not a nice experience!

Hi Guybrush, This can be very upsetting for all affected and have experineced being hit in the past myself and think that perhaps still am as one person does seem to follow me around with different names too and whenever they appear I have numerous discussions deleted etc. I think to be report is a good thing if you know for sure but to get upset only fuels them more, to ignore seems a better way to go as they thrive on people getting upset. Sad really all the time and eergy they take to do this to others could be used much more positively but just like in life you get nasty people you do here to at myLot, keep posting, keep responding and keep having FUN with it. Ellie :D

Trolls are like fairy creatures too. I remember seeing or reading about fairies where they said, remember us. If you forget us then we will cease to exist. It is us who give life to these creatures and they live or die by our will. You just have to choose how to use your awesome power. Adding fuel to the fire will make it blaze larger and longer.

Thankfully, this is something that I've never experienced here on myLot. I think I'd be tempted to just leave well alone and hope they got bored. I've never understood why people want to make trouble.

I have not known any trolls here yet. And I hope I would not encounter one. I don't like knowing someone like them. As others have pointed out, it is really difficult to pin-point trolls because they are "crafty and cunning". And do you think mylot would seriously take a report which is only a suspicion? I hope so.

I would simply push the exclamation button for report abuse. If you respond, then You will be the one penalized in the end by loosing what you earned. It is best just to report him and have your friends do the same.

This is an old discussion I realise but still relevant and if some of the discussions I have read here lately are an indication, then there is still some trolling going on. There was also a fair bit of it going on here a couple of years ago and a number of my friends simply left, which was not good but they decided it wasn't worth the hassle of staying. At least here on myLot we have the option of reporting the "troll" to myLot admin and hope they can do something about it. My partner has also left a couple of sites/forums in the past because of someof these trolls who are actually vicious. In one instance she believes it was just the one person who used to follow all her posts and make really vicious and nasty comments. That same person was on another site as well but this time she was one of a pack who used to almost terrorise members. My partner was not the only victim of these vicious spiteful people whose main aim in life seemed to make as many people as possible totally miserable. In fact my partner never even knew what she had said or done to "attract" this vicious person. We know 2 people who will no longer belong to any internet site/forum because of the attacks made on them. Sadly in both these instances they thought that these people were friends which means they trusted them with information they would not normally disclose. One woman already has issues with depression, which was controlled by medication, but she ended up in a really terrible way. These is no way we cannot stop these people before they start but when/if they do, then we should report them immediately. That is the only way they can be stopped and hopefully before they do too mch damage. It would be nice if myLot could ban an IP but I believe they do not do that which means the trolls can just get a new account with a new name. Good luck and hope that none of us are ever bothered by these trolls again.

hi guybrush if a troll has followed me and has two acounts and I know this for a fact I will just hit the third button and left my lot handle it. I too do not like being made out a fool. I too have seen a lot of mylot friends getting' hurt by this troll. Ihad my innings a while back when' this thing slid my star from a ten to a 6 overnight by a lot of minusing and I had done nothing wrong. I reported this to mylot and they did act on it.I am now an eight.

That is awful guybrush! I guess if I were you, I'd report them to myLot so that hopefully something can be done. I am sure you are frustrated and annoyed too. I hope you get rid of whomever it is so that you can get back to enjoying myLot as it should be and not have to worry about it anymore. Good luck.

try to convince the admin to ban his ip address.

Well...I would just like stop and tell them:*that its not right doing this to others you know?!What if someone did the samthing 2 you and u might not like it?huh?well if u dont want that then dont do it anymore it does hurt me and my friends!!!What if we picked on ur friends and start doin wat ur doin!!!trust me u wont like it wen we dont.*dats wat u should do say it with courage and streangth and a bit of anger!ok?its fine just talkin but botherin' someones biz is just like soooo uncoool and dats from da heart if u say'd irt like u feel heroic!^_^