Troll or merely brat?

[branchandroot]

Mostly for my curiosity.

Poll #5349 Fannish Pesticides

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 38

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Your immediate response to a commenter who has chosen the user handle "Wandering Beta At Large" is:

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Troll.
13 (34.2%)

Oh god, not another entitlement-brat.
26 (68.4%)

Free beta-ing, how nice!
2 (5.3%)

Something else I shall mention in the comments.
4 (10.5%)

Your action upon receiving a comment from said user which attempts to "correct" you in some, most likely totally wrong, way:

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Smack them with a frigidly polite clue-bat and ignore them.
24 (63.2%)

Just ignore them.
14 (36.8%)

Tip off the archive abuse team to what may be a pattern of trollish behavior.
5 (13.2%)

Something else I shall mention in the comments.
4 (10.5%)

Me, I generally do the frigidly polite clue-bat, just to do my bit to discourage fannish idiocy, and move on. It's the user name in particular that is making me contemplate actually contacting the archive in this case, because that seriously rings my troll-alarm.

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[staranise]

I think in this case intention is entirely irrelevant, since the behaviour is equally annoying no matter what; contacting the archive might be a good idea just to see if they want this happening at all.

[branchandroot]

*wry* A very good point. I do wonder how other corners of fandom culture are regarding this kind of "intervention" these days. For a while it was sheltered under the umbrella of "concrit".

If this one comes back for me, I'm /definitely/ reporting it, but if it's a one-off... mm. That might just be one of those intensely annoying examples of fandom culture clash that one runs into every so often.