Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5578690-20140209174700/@comment-4811793-20140210235625

There's a great deal of good advice in this thread, and I always like to see our community offering a fresh perspective. Often, local blocks are the best way to deal with specific disruptions, which staff or VSTF can often help roll into range blocks when appropriate. But the most applicable piece of advice I have seen is the oft-repeated mantra about not providing foodstuffs to certain bridge-dwelling mythical creatures, i.e. "Don't Feed the Trolls". A blog post warning the public at large is just the kind of spotlight that disruptive users are seeking and the single best way to avoid stoking the flames of a trollish conflict is to starve the whole affair of oxygen. Radio silence and simply blocking disruptive users when they pop up are the two strongest weapons in the Admin's arsenal.