I Want to Improve the Experience Project
Trolls don't make me at all glad EP is ending. I have long heard much discussion of "trolls" as a negative part of the EP experience. I don't know exactly what people have in mind with "trolls", but I suspect it's being used primarily in regard to what I would call bullies. It is true that I lost two of my best friends on EP, VisualOne/Atri and Michelle007, because they were very seriously harassed by people with an ideological ax to grind against them, and EP Support would not do anything.
I certainly experienced some hateful behavior on EP. It all came from people angry at me because of the deep difference in viewpoints we held. They gave me some trying times, but I felt the tools provided by EP were fairly effective: delete hateful comments on your stories, block your enemies, and avoid third-party stories where your enemies are engaged.
Why is it that more people didn't find relief with the strategy of delete, block, and avoid?
Did trolls kill EP or make a major contribution? Did the pattern or intensity of troll conduct change over time?
I will assert that there was always so much positive, so much love, on EP, that it made the website worth it. Now if you are a person whose good friends all left EP because of the management's dismantling of the websites' features in the last few years, then you'll have a bad taste in your mouth about it. But I had plenty of wonderful friends here until the very end. I will surely, deeply miss having one good place to interact with them all.
I certainly experienced some hateful behavior on EP. It all came from people angry at me because of the deep difference in viewpoints we held. They gave me some trying times, but I felt the tools provided by EP were fairly effective: delete hateful comments on your stories, block your enemies, and avoid third-party stories where your enemies are engaged.
Why is it that more people didn't find relief with the strategy of delete, block, and avoid?
Did trolls kill EP or make a major contribution? Did the pattern or intensity of troll conduct change over time?
I will assert that there was always so much positive, so much love, on EP, that it made the website worth it. Now if you are a person whose good friends all left EP because of the management's dismantling of the websites' features in the last few years, then you'll have a bad taste in your mouth about it. But I had plenty of wonderful friends here until the very end. I will surely, deeply miss having one good place to interact with them all.
