Thread:Sannse/@comment-50.136.149.237-20140921150832/@comment-8-20140922224257

Remember the definition of "trolling". It means acting badly  in order to get a reaction. If you are saying "please stop trolling", then it's clear you know what they are doing. And then you are giving them a reaction anyway

That's different from saying "please stop cursing", or "please don't write in allcaps" or whatever. There you are saying the behavior is a problem, but you aren't saying that the motivation is to provoke you.

So I wouldn't discourage you from communicating with people to ask them to stop bad bahavior (especially in a calm and productive way) but if you find yourself using the word "trolling" as the description of what they are doing, then I would say you should consider whether you should change the description, or change your mind about replying :)