User blog comment:ForestFairy/How to Take the Fun Out of Trolling/@comment-4189499-20150606051621

Sometime you have to be careful as some people who can sometime look like trolls are actually just... I can't think of a word to call them that wouldn't be considered too offensive to use on Wikia. I know, think of them as a donkey in a hole (using the other name for donkey, obviously). I find these types of people to be far more common on the wikis I edit than genuine trolls.

Some users may seem to be purposefully trying to provoke arguments with unrealistic and extreme views related to the topic of the wiki, but they could actually just be thick-headed enough to believe they're right and not let any argument to the contrary pierce this strongly and wrongly held belief. And if they start taking things personal, they might not be as much trolls as people who are just stupidly over-sensitive. These people can usually be distinguished from actual trolls by the fact they at least attempt to help out in the editing of mainspace articles, and may occasionally make some rational points in other discussions. The best way to handle these people is just to ignore their insane rants, or just leave one reply showing all the evidence to the contrary to let future users reading the discussion know that the other user's ideas are as crazy as they are, and then don't reply any further. They will eventually get bored of the argument, but if they keep bringing it up in different places to try and get a reaction, first threaten them with a block if they were to continue and then give then a week off if they don't stop. That should be enough to cool their heads while still having them come back and do the good editing they perform between rants.