User blog comment:ForestFairy/How to Take the Fun Out of Trolling/@comment-10775061-20150607115252/@comment-26079046-20150608170752

Trolls don't have to be idiots; as ForestFairy said, they want attention. Most will eventually give up. The few who don't may learn they can get attention by being productive editors. A few of the best editors started out as trolls.