Don’t Feed the Trolls

Goodbye, Blog – Books & Culture: “And then there are the ‘trolls’: people who comment specifically in order to get a rise out of other commenters—people who have never transcended the discovery that being extremely annoying is one of the most reliable ways of getting attention. Most of us, by third grade or so, come to understand that hostile attention is probably worse than no attention at all, but trolls never learn to make such subtle discriminations. Thus no law of the blogosphere is more important—though also more widely ignored—than ‘Don’t feed the trolls.'”

Good article at Christianity Today, pouring cold water over all my blogging daydreams.