GameKnot related: A story about trolls and getting into the mind of a troll on GK:
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euro_pop_legend
12-Feb-26, 09:30

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myrydin
12-Feb-26, 11:22

Thanks Joe and thanks for sharing your experience. When reading, I spotted a typical aspect of the troll modus operandi - projection. The troll likes to ‘project’ their own shortcomings onto their targets. They assume that because they’re disappointments in both work and life, their target must be too. It’s just them. It’s a way of outsourcing or clumsily bundling away their own inadequacies. Pity them their confessions to jealousy and falling short.

I barely have anyone on my ignore list, GK is mostly a great place with many good people. I do, however, have just one rather pathetic troll that mildly irritates me from time to time, but mostly makes me chuckle. This individual enjoyed a sudden dramatic improvement in his chess ability at an extraordinarily late stage of his chess career. I would normally have very easily given him the benefit of the doubt, but he let fly with little childish temper tantrums here and there for some reason that I do not know, so I put him on ignore and he now resorts to occasionally attempting to get around that by letting fly with further tantrums in the clubs and chess puzzles. I just chuckle and swipe it away.

As you mention, it’s important to ignore trolls, so I do. In the old days, these things were nipped in the bud.

Take care, Joe.
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