RE: The Trollslayer Speaks - A Conspiracy Theory and Blockchain-Community Strategy
In any society, group or online community there are some people that are possibly capable of being truly difficult to relate and to communicate because their motive is to block, create anger, or disrupt communication.
Internet studies relate the traits of personality of a troll with Narcissism, Psychopathy, Machiavellism or Sadisms, but I suspect that these people suffered some kind of trolling in their early education.
In my experience, I always found that 3% of my clients were always difficult, and the good action is to try to get rid of them because they are clients "below-zero" that only make trouble, make you lose money and waste your time that you should give to the other good clients.
So in any social group, there is always a normal distribution of 3% difficult people to deal with and on the other side 3% of exceptional people to engage in communication.
Yup, wrote a paper about it in my pre-u days, although I certainly didn't foresee blockchain communities in which stakes are involved, which certainly changed the dynamics in influence etc. I just can't find it after so long, lost in another laptop with some satoshis. There's certainly no stopping anyone, and imo I think I've never seen such high occurrences of accounts that jump into conversation and start being judge dredd on an otherwise seemingly normal accounts. Well maybe it's been happening much more on FB etc, but maybe I just couldn't take them all that seriously since it's not even a game lol..