10. Which is what usually trolls want. They want you shut you. We have seen this again and again.

9. Imagine if abuse receivers were non technical, forget about outing a troll they would have stopped talking

8. Its so happened that at the receiving end there were people who had seen enough flamewars & capable of defending online harassment

6. But using anonymity for speaking up and using it to abuse are not the same. Specially by a person who is in power & in no danger.

5. It also offers anonymity to people, specially the one who can’t afford to speak otherwise.

4. This is where Twitter is different from lists or irc. Its left to the participant to be civil or not.

3. One can present any kind of PoV but needs to be Nice to everyone else or will be kicked out.

2. Hence all the lists and communities we created had just one rule “Be Nice”. Its easy to enforce on email lists, irc or on slack.

1. I have been online long enough to understand how trolls work. It hasn’t changed much since flame-war days

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