Internet Trolls: How to Recognize and Handle Them
Internet trolls exist to provoke and disrupt, not communicate. Here is what attracts them, how they operate, and why you cannot win by engaging.
Tag: Online Harassment & Trolls
Put your work online long enough and someone will come for it. These posts cover internet trolls, review bombing, online harassment, and handling a brutal review with your sanity and reputation intact.
Critical ThinkingInternet Trolls: The 16 Behaviors That Attract Them
Trolls do not choose targets at random; they go where the reaction is, and certain online behaviors light them up like a beacon, from sharing personal stories to correcting people to simply being visible. None of these are wrong. But…
Amazon & KDPHow to Handle a Bad Book Review: From an Author With 113+ Books
Most of my books sit at four and five stars, but every author eventually meets the brutal one-star takedown. The first one stings; it does not have to derail you. After 113+ books, here is how I read a bad…
bellydanceI’ve been gang-attacked on Facebook, buried on YouTube, and harassed on LinkedIn
One Facebook comment, and within hours hundreds of strangers were piling on, screenshotting, sharing, hostility for its own sake from people who had never met me. Deleting the thread changed nothing. Here is what online mobs across Facebook, YouTube, and…
BiasOnline Forum Echo Chambers – When Your Subreddit Becomes Your Reality
If social media is an echo chamber, online forums are echo tunnels, narrower, deeper, more intense. Where TikTok feeds you what you like, a niche forum wraps your whole identity in the belief that only these people get it. You…
Online Harassment & TrollsUnmasking the Dark Art of the Internet Troll
In 2012, Gawker unmasked one of Reddit's most notorious trolls and found an ordinary man with a job and a family whose hobby was making the internet worse. Trolling follows patterns, and once you see them, you can respond. Here…
CybersecurityThink Before You Post: Protecting Your Personal Life
Social media makes broadcasting raw emotion effortless, and after a charged event thousands post themselves crying, yelling, even threatening. Feeling it is natural; publishing it is the trap, because the internet forgets nothing and the consequences arrive long after the…
Amazon & KDPReview Bombing: How It Works and How to Survive It
Review bombing is the practice of flooding a product, service, or creator with coordinated negative reviews that have little to do with actual quality. Here is where it hits hardest, the structural conflicts that make it worse, how to spot…