I’ve been interested to ask this after seeing so much happen in this community. How would you define a troll? The modlogs show many communities have rules against “trolling” but what is actually going on that makes it register with people.

I’m making an instance of my own and wanted to know. The last time I was on here, there was a drama about a mod which was based on another drama about the same mod, and this in turn was based on another drama about the same mod, which itself was based on a drama about that mod. That’s a revelation with many implications I never see mentioned, that these are all connected (why isn’t anyone mentioning this). I know this person, I know it’s slander against her. Everyone called her a troll though for defending herself, which a few argue is in the same way a lot of people don’t see issue with outright releasing private information.

I am a community owner and am on hiatus from helping out in another instance. I wanted everyone to know the person making the claims about her has been vetted and given the boot at least once, while the mod has been vetted and cleared of all suspicions, especially with it coming out now the people involved have compromised their agenda. I see he has gone on Shitter (linking to it only because XCancel is a mess and doesn’t have a “sort by user replies” category system, which is an enormous oversight, and because this is someone who was praised on here with a hundred upvotes) to mass-slander-campaign against the person, as that’s the sole bulk of their reply history. In a way, he even makes us look bad. These people are obsessed enough I understand the motives behind a previous question here that caused a lot of raised eyebrows. And that’s not a troll? Is Shitter suddenly okay to reference again, considering the indifference with them? I’m eager to make it okay in my instance if it is.