No matter what the situation. All over the internet there are trolls. They do ugly and foolish things for attention.
Treat them the same way you would a petulant child doing the same thing. Ignore them.
They want attention, they want traffic, they want comments, they want links.
The sooner you give them none, the sooner they go away, or at least vanish off of radar.
good advice. I have to admit to being somewhat entertained by the spectacular melt down though.
Oh yeah, Miguel’s latest post really puts a cherry on top.
Still you can WATCH it without backlinking and leaving comments.
But yeah pointing and laughing is TOTALLY acceptable at this point!
Hooray for pointing and laughing!
Did I miss a link? There must be something amusing to see.
Of course, I’m probably thought of as a troll when I comment on anti-gun blogs, but the majority of comments on those sites are from gun rights advocates, so perhaps we need a new term–sane, rational, freedom-loving, winning are possibilities.
Over at bunch-of-numbers land you are indeed a troll. And I’d be lying if I didn’t say I loved it! 8)
Check out my blog or Miguel’s for details Greg.
I gave him links, though with nofollows, on that last post I did to give him the benefit of the doubt. It is obvious he is an anti-gun troll now, doubly so with his comments about me.
If I decide to write a response to that pile of insults he calls a profile, I will be doing it purely through screenshots. As it is, I’m tempted to claim the profile, fix it, and then use the profile to do nothing more than bash the site.
I know I have said it elsewhere, but I might as well repeat it here – I have been very careful about not providing backlinks to Choke and Chunder, and will, in fact, remove any backlinks he or anyone else puts up on my site.
However, Google loves it some keywords, and especially loves it some tags, and, right now, my two posts about Smoke and Thunder are on the front page of the Google returns for when you search for that phrase. If my writings can serve as a warning for the innocent / unawares out there, I can deal with what little traffic I might have otherwise generated for that site by people searching for it themselves in response to my posts.
Aside from that, though, he has successfully screwed himself out of any chance of success, so I am quite content to allow him and his site to fade into the obscurity they both so richly deserve.
Very good point.
There has to be *some* posts explaining who these goobers are and why they shouldn’t be patronized, let alone linked.
And it’s nice to see that mission is in good hands. Bravo.