Comment trolls? You know, people who turn up on your website or blog with the sole intention of being rude, abusive, racist or whatever. There’s an interesting piece in Wired Magazine on “the taming of comment trolls” which suggests different techniques for dealing with them. Our favourite is the method used by pop-culture blog Boing Boing – nasty comments are left up, but have their vowels removed – “y r fckng sshl” being one example. We may try this on the Music Ally blog…
Tame comment trolls by disemvoweling them
