Trolls Plague Political Blogs and Sites

Posted on January 14, 2008

Trolls are a menace to many online communities, blogs or web forums. This especially true with political communities. Politics seems to bring out the worst in trolls and political forums often face a never ending stream of them. The web people working for today's political candidates probably expected trolls when they set up forums on their candidates websites. This video below from the Wall Street Journal discusses a troll that has been banned from the websites of some of the leading democratic presidential candidates. This particular troll's efforts might be better served by starting a blog of his own instead of repeatedly leaving comments on sites that are often deleted. The WSJ also has an article about the political troll problem. It says the Daily Kos liberal blog fights off trolls by posting recipes instead of engaging with the trolls in political debate.