Would you want to be MyLot friends with a troll???

Hello MsTickle, Thanks for sharing with us your though-process about this particular member. By "these sort of reactions", do you mean my having posted a discussion about this? If that is what you mean then you may be right, I simply don't know. What I do know is that the line between discretion and indiscriminate can sometimes be very, very thin. Hence the reason why I posted this. Hopefully, the sage wisdom offered by fellow members in discussion such as this will prove highly useful for the whole of the community.

Oops! That should read "thought-process".

Hi Mykl..I wish I knew how you figured out who these people are and what they are up to. He left me a message on that last discussion saying "bye Tickle...lol lol lol" only my dear friends call me Tickle so it is either just a copy cat or someone I'm friends with. Yes Ladylunar, that is what I meant but on second thoughts should have read "ANY sort of reaction". I guess I just don't understand the mindset of a troll and why he /she behaves as they do (as Mykl said, if they re-channeled their energies they could make a bundle...maybe they simply don't have what it takes to be an active, positive member of a community such as this)or for that matter the mindset of those who continually respond to them and stir the pot. The trolls are seeking attention in the first place so ignoring them seems to be the best way to deal with them and make them go away, but no, many people go on the attack and respond and respond bringing themselves down to the level of the troll in my eyes.

Hello TLChimes, Welcome to MyLot, and thanks for chiming into this discussion! Ah, a fellow Sun-Tzu fan? For anyone who may not have read it, "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." is a quote from "The Art of War" (400 B.C. China), one of the most impactful books ever written, and a read that I would recommend to all! Wow! Are you ever on top of your game? I've been here for years, and I know nothing of a group of members who patrol the trolls. Please allow me to congratulate you for your powers of observation -- nicely done! I wholeheartedly agree that this certainly lacks the humor it may have been seeking.

Thank You for the welcome! I really can type better then my post showed. I need to stop typing and holding kids at the same time. I just noticed a few names popping up in the same places as a couple of idiots, I mean Trolls. Funny how they are like minded folks though. I think I would have liked them even with out seeing them close in on bad children. A good read that I recommend to others. Another good place to find the quote is in the Robin William's film "Toys." Nice to meet you!

Nice to meet you as well, TLChimes. "Toys" eh? I missed that one, and here I was thinking that I'd seen all of Robin William's movies. I'll have to make a point to check it out. Thanks again!

Seen it thanks mykl. Persistent bugger if I ever saw one! lol.

Hello James72, Very thoughtful response -- thank you! So, you concur with others here that sometimes it is far wiser to keep a bird's eye on these members. I can see where that makes terrific sense! I certainly appreciate that your motivator is to limit the satisfaction level of these misfits. Well done!

Persistent bugger Always a gentleman James!

Hello Destiny, Thanks for sharing! You make some very valid points: geographic area, whether accurate or not is really quite telling. As well, the user I.D. was a clear indicator. I did not reach the same conclusion about the suspect maturity level though. To the contrary, based on certain 'tells' I suspect that this is not an adolescent.

True enough -- you are absolutely right. Thank you for pointing out the distinction.

I never said he was an adolescent. I said he had a juvenile mentality. There is a difference.

Hello Underdogtoo, Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this issue. I'm glad to learn that you've never experienced any problems with 'friend' requests. That's great to know!

Hello Thezone, Welcome to MyLot. I hope that you thoroughly enjoy your time here. Yes, I agree that as a very first post this is quite telling. Thanks for sharing your Twitter experience. It must be a nice feature to be able to flag & prevent the interraction of a particular member. That is a feature that has long been requested here. Hopefully, your input might be read by the powers that be, and have some impact in that regard. Thanks again & Happy MyLotting!

That's great to know! Thanks for the update.

Just a quick update on that Twitter member. I went to view their profile again and guess what it said "Sorry, the account you were headed to has been suspended due to strange activity." So it is good to know that people are keeping an eye out for this kind of thing.

Hello Sudiptacallingu, Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this matter. I always look forward to your perspective. We Americans have learned the hard way that we should never underestimate the will of terrorists. However, I see little value in glorifying their intelligence capabilities. I also see little value in engaging a discussion about U.S. counter-terrorism capabilities. I'm of the opinion that it is far wiser, and ultimately more productive to refrain from shining a light on certain activities that relate to national security! As for this troll being a "just landed immigrant": I would purport that the content of the post suggests that there was little truth in the post, rather a fabrication designed to satisfy the under-developed ego of the twisted poster. Last, I couldn't disagree more with your statement that "... the people who matter don't go about writing about it so openly." Radical, extremist terrorists have been remarkably open about their intentions. They maintain websites packed with their insideous goals, they eagerly claim responsibility for their acts of terror, and the engage in a regular public relations campaign for the purposes of generating revenue and recruits. Although, if there is any single reason to alert the authorities about this kind of activity, it's because we are seeing an emerging trend of 'home grown terrorists' here in the states. Misguided, youngsters or emotionally isolated and underdeveloped men, typically from broken or trouble homes, with unsatisfying school or work histories. There is a profile, and I detect some of the underlying tells in the post. While I thank you for the warning, I have no qualms about being perceived as a "laughing stock" for acting on such matters. "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke

Hello Sudiptacallingu, Thanks so much for the kind words. Alas, I know not where we're headed, though I fear it may not be a 'destination' of our choosing. There are forces at work from among rogue organizations as well as government entities that are, by design, working against you and I being able to live our lives in relative peace. As I penned my prior response to you I was painfully aware of the perspective of this "home grown" issue. While we in the states have seen few incidences of this, elsewhere around the world the phenomenon is much more jarring. Perhaps none so much so as in your homeland, and inside of your neighbors borders. I sincerely wish for us all the ability to permanently quash the irrational desire to forcefully dominate others. True freedom begins and ends with any of the many variations of The Golden Rule. True freedom begins and ends with one's own commitment to respect others as they themselves would wish to be respected. Of course, it's a two way street, eh? After thousands of years, why do you suppose the Human species still hasn't figured out how to get along?

Hello Royal52gens, Thanks for sharing your pearls with us! The latter exchange between you and MYKLJ is really very eye-openning! Hmmm, you raise an interesting question: I wonder if MyLot does submit these kinds of posts to the authorities. I'd actually really like to know if there is some requirement for turning over questionable content to the F.B.I., which is the U.S. agency responsible for overseeig internet criminality. Hmmm, great question!

And yet another new alias today as well! I received a request also but let it sit until I could see what's what.....

odd how jacksback is using the same avatar as the one he used for a previous account "antichrist"

Hello Twoey, Hmmm, now that is interesting -- notify the other mutual friends. That represents taking responsibility, good neighborliness, and concern for our valued community to a level that I had not considered. Thank you for making me put my thinking cap on. Well done! As for not finding the profile page -- yup, you're on target. MIKYLJ let us know about the deletion almost as quickly as it happened. Thanks to the MyLot admin's, who I know got at least 6 or 7 abuse reports on this creep.

If the person's ID was trueassassin then I got a request as well. When I tried to view the profile page I got an error page showing the page is no longer there. So MyLot removed them. [b]~~AT PEACE WITHIN~~ **STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS**[/b]

Hello Zandi458, Thank you for such a thoughtful response. To be clear, I do not take the submission of this troll as factual. Instead, I believe that the entire submission was fabricated, to be deliberately deceiving -- as troll's typically are. However, that doesn't dismiss the fact that if this is a ruse, it is indicative of the handiwork of a suspect individual. One who we must consider as capricious and potentially volatile. Do any of us really desire to interract with that kind of person? Especially when it's avoidable? And, if I'm wrong, and it's not a ruse, well then we definitely don't want to invite this kind of a person into our inner circle. Better safe than sorry, eh?

Hello Sid556, I'm sure that you're absolutely correct that the folks who accepted this member's 'friend' request were unaware. That is the point of posting this discussion, to raise awareness to the advantages of being discriminating. I'm glad to learn that you are already in the habit of being discrimination, as it relates to accepting 'friend' requests. It really doesn't take long to look at a member's profile page and discussion contributions, does it? I suspect that a moment of prudence is its own reward, eh?

Thank you, Sid556. I'm glad that you found this thread helpful. Thanks specifically to members of our MyLot community for sharing their insights here.

Ya, until recently, I let anyone who asked be my friend thinking why not? After all this , i learned. This is a great thread because hopefully it;ll alert others who may not know about this.

For the FBI, you can probably find some way of emailing them through this site: http://www.fbi.gov For Homeland Security, it's http://www.dhs.gov

Thank you very much for providing those links Klingon. Much appreciated!

Whoa this is supprising to me.. that you could email both online LMAO... But come to think of it.. since bush is no longer the president. If someone kills him it wil be like regular old murder right? its not like some federal thing?... Because not alot of people like bush they may just disgard the email and be like oh well...lol hahaha. i know bad time to make a bush joke but its so serious.. Thanks for the links!:)

Hello Wonttakelong, Thanks for sharing! It's terrific to see that the folks here are diligent, at the very least. Reported as a "terrorist threat" -- nicely done!

I am guessing that you also saw his teenage daughter LOL

Hello Sammy_pink, Welcome to MyLot & you're very welcome! I hope that you thoroughly enjoy your time here, and that your contributions remain troll-free! To put this into perspective: it is my experience over the course of the past three years that the majority of members of this community have demonstrated a sincere sense of responsible interraction. So please don't be so circumspect that you forget to have fun -- 'cause that's what it's all about here. Happy MyLotting!

Hello Whiteheather, Absolutely ... me too!!! Although, I will say that for me, this is much more than offensive. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this matter.