Excellent MATT! Many of the same rules I use myself, especially not acknowledging them, if you don't play with them they will take their ball and go home so to speak. I trust the majority of people can judge for themselves, one need not lower themselves to engaging trolls, as you say that is what they want. Instead I feel if you ignore/remove/block strategy not only keeps them from getting the attention they are craving but also, it will simply arouse curiosity and people will check out your channel and likely they will discover "Hey, actually this guys pretty cool, what's that loser going on about?" thus possibly bringing you another supportive subscriber while the troll gains nothing. Also, IF ONE SIMPLY cannot resist responding to a troll. bad comment etc (There are some who cannot) I at the very least advise any such video can contain info about the situation, remain calm and respond in a polite manner explaining why you feel that person's behavior is unacceptable. DO NOT use profanity as this is immature and really when I watch someone using the F-BOMB every second word they lose all credibility with me, and above all do NOT mention them by their actual name or user name and do NOT link to their channel or post any of that info in your video information section. In other words do not do anything that links back to the troublemaker's channel or videos, they do not deserve to gain anything from your response. NOW THAT SAID, again I give those tips only if you feel you MUST respond in video form but I highly suggest you do NOT go this route because unfortunately you really are becoming just another person adding to the Youtube drama. Here is a video I recently posted on this very topic, I stand by it and if you watch it on the originating site you can see it seems to have gotten over all positive response/comments:
Excellent MATT! Many of the same rules I use myself, especially not acknowledging them, if you don't play with them they will take their ball and go home so to speak. I trust the majority of people can judge for themselves, one need not lower themselves to engaging trolls, as you say that is what they want. Instead I feel if you ignore/remove/block strategy not only keeps them from getting the attention they are craving but also, it will simply arouse curiosity and people will check out your channel and likely they will discover "Hey, actually this guys pretty cool, what's that loser going on about?" thus possibly bringing you another supportive subscriber while the troll gains nothing. Also, IF ONE SIMPLY cannot resist responding to a troll. bad comment etc (There are some who cannot) I at the very least advise any such video can contain info about the situation, remain calm and respond in a polite manner explaining why you feel that person's behavior is unacceptable. DO NOT use profanity as this is immature and really when I watch someone using the F-BOMB every second word they lose all credibility with me, and above all do NOT mention them by their actual name or user name and do NOT link to their channel or post any of that info in your video information section. In other words do not do anything that links back to the troublemaker's channel or videos, they do not deserve to gain anything from your response. NOW THAT SAID, again I give those tips only if you feel you MUST respond in video form but I highly suggest you do NOT go this route because unfortunately you really are becoming just another person adding to the Youtube drama. Here is a video I recently posted on this very topic, I stand by it and if you watch it on the originating site you can see it seems to have gotten over all positive response/comments:
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Oldschool games, some people just don't "get it"...
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Oldschool games, some people just don't "get it"...