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This is an article about why you could consider not deleting some of the trolls from the comments on your articles.

Writing is a joy; but some people get frightened of by Trolls; some delete them; I myself laugh about them. There are many ways to deal with Trolls, and each of us should choose how to deal with it as is best for her/him. This is an article about why you could consider not deleting some of the trolls from the comments on your articles.

I admit that my sense of humour is terribly warped, but trolls commenting my articles make me laugh. I seem to be an exception on Triond, but some of you might want to consider the humour of these comments; or should I rather say the laugh is on the commenter?

My article was triggered by a troll commenting on my article Roman Polanski Arrested in Switzerland; I wonder who of you can find it? (It: Trolls exist both as males and females like most animals.) As trolls go, the comment I am referring to is a fairly good example of its kind. It neatly defines what a troll is: A person of no breeding, no manners, and no brains, just barely able to spell out two sentences in using four letters swear words.

Many have written on the reasons why such comments may, can and should be deleted. The list to help you make your own decision on the subject might include Atikin’s Write Rubbish, I Delete It, Liane Schmidt’s Why Deleting Comments Does A Writer Good, and Lauren Axelrod’s Is There an Overabundance of Trolls on Triond? On the other hand, I am convinced that one should leave at least some of the trollish comments standing.

There are several reasons why you should consider letting comments stand as they were given, maybe not all of them, but certainly some. One reason might be that the troll is a member of Triond (I don’t want to use the word writer on people like that). As in my example above, if that Triond writer uses four letter words in his comments, Triond users should be aware of that. It saves them reading its articles to be even further offended.

On another scale, it might be quite useful to other Triond writers to see that nothing much happens if a troll enters the comments section of an article. The article doesn’t wither and die, not does the writer. But this reasoning might only be applied by thick skinned people like me. Seeing such comments on other writers’ articles might help the new aspiring writer to see that such comments are neither aimed at their article nor at their abilities or person, but are spiteful gibberish from the less gifted and may safely be ignored.

Should you let a trollish comment stand? I would advise you to leave the comment where it is, if it is graced by a Triond member link. As the comment disqualifies the commenter and not the article it was placed in, you should not even give it the grace to delete it. Who wants to read something written by a troll? I don’t.

As to Chris Marlowe II, the one and only Triond troll: Eat your heart out. The comment by that gnomish twerp on my article was truly offensive. You have your work cut out to remain the one and only.