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.

Comments

[kaigou]

I guess I've just been around too long (or too long for me) because now I simply can't be bothered to reply. For pretty much any review (that isn't coming in as a comment on a journal-post), I glance at the first five or six words and if it looks like it's going in that direction, I just shrug and delete without reading the rest.

Now that I think of it, I pretty much do the same for all reviews that aren't comments on a journal-post. I just kinda register they exist, figure that's enough in return for the person's effort of the review, and carry on.

Hmm. Actually, I think that's been my modus operandi ever since I got the review that proclaimed I was the brillo pad of fandom. (No, I still haven't entirely figured out whether that's a compliment or insult, but it did seem like a good stopping place.)

[branchandroot]

Probably just as wise, yes. Perhaps unfortunately, I do regularly respond to all my commenters, so I'm in the habit of reading and considering my comments. Which, of course, means that these little snips get under my skin. Doesn't help that I have a special sort of indignation for being accused of getting something factually wrong when I am actually right (usually because I did my research and thought for ten consecutive seconds about it). Grarh.