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They are trolling. They love the negative attention here is just one example of it “Wait, do I have 81,000 downvotes now? I thought it was 45,000?! Can you double check. I wanna put the correct number of downvotes in my profile. The link you provided isn’t working for me. Thanks for the updated stats, friend! :)” They purposely post more mild posts and then like today they went for the triple post of troll material. They are playing a lot of people right now. Don’t be one of them.
That's a much more recent turn. Not that long ago they were asking why they were getting such negative engagement. I think they decided to cling to ideology and take the negativity as an affirmation of their position. Make no mistake, I'm not asking for them not to be banned or anything. I have 100% left community that they've been apart of. And will not lament their absence. I don't think it's clear trolling.
This is what falling for a troll looks like. Giving excuses for their trolling behavior as if the troll is really just responding to their environment despite the troll being the one who initiates the conflict.
That's just it though. In a weird sort of way they don't tend to initiate it. Look at it closer. Try to find an instance of them commenting on a post to community that wasn't their own. Or did not mention them in some way. It's oddly rare as f***.
If their whole intent was to feed off metallic replies. Why would they create and moderate many many different communities to which they post some of the same s*** and get very little response? Often still getting ratioed on what little response they do get. That's a lot of extra work for not very much troll food.
If you choose to Define them as a troll. You still have to admit they're one of the easiest trolls in history to avoid. Which should make you question the label. The behavior is much too erratic and unpredictable for something like a simple troll. Much more indicative of something like mental illness and a bad response to being bullied
That is just trolling with home court advantage. They put out the honeypot and get to argue on their home turf for the most part, although they also posted to c/politics.
'Just responding to their environment.'
That's a REAL stretch. I'm not saying they aren't fucking annoying. They're really, FUCKING, annoying. But being annoying doesn't imply trolling. I've met people who's basic speaking tones and patterns annoyed me. But it was less something they did intentionally and more a malfunction of who they were. And in this case, despite monk making a spectacle of themselves. People sought them out far more than monk intruded elsewhere.
I won't miss them. But some of the behavior has definitely been obsessive and bullying towards them. Regardless of their actions or what you think of them personally. Maybe you like that fact. Maybe you don't. For me personally though it feels like pretty shitty behavior all around and no one to really root for. When I stopped engaging with them. I stopped having issues with them. They didn't follow. Didn't harass others the way they were harassed. That's not justifying or defending their behavior. Whatever lessons they learned they learned the wrong fucking thing. There's no question about that.
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Yeah, they are literally bragging about being a troll in their profile when they boast about their downvotes.
I see I wasn't up to date on my Monk lore... I blocked them fairly early on after a weird conversation.
Exactly there intentions are right there for anyone to see.
Pretty wild this is even being debated.