How to shut down trolls with this 1 weird trick

I know this is a stretch, and probably really hard from some to comprehend, but the trick is don’t respond. Like at all. Notice that someone enflamed your emotions under the guise of a logical argument? Count to 3 and walk away. Operant conditioning tells us that if you don’t react to a behavior it will go away; "In psychology, extinction refers to the gradual weakening of a conditioned response that results in the behavior decreasing or disappearing. In other words, the conditioned behavior eventually stops. " Or in other terms, don’t feed the trolls.

In fact, don’t even reply to this. Take the advice and move along.

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But how will you know I’m smarter than you if I don’t tell you?

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Oh just shut it. You know you can’t change someone’s mind on the internet unless you YELL AT THEM.

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Someone somewhere once said that caps lock is like cruise control for stupidity. I thought that was funny.

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Trolls on this forum? Say it ain’t so.

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Trolls

There’s an easier way.

Just type, “no u”. It’s like an uno reverse card but for the internet.