The world's top discussion moderators have developed successful tools for keeping online miscreants from disrupting conversation. All are rooted in one psychological insight: If you simply ban trolls—kicking them off your board—you nurture their curdled sense of being an oppressed truth-speaker. Instead, the moderators rely on making the comments less prominent.
Patient Zero here is Slashdot, the tech site that pioneered one elegant way to police trolls: crowdsourcing. Slashdot has an automated system that randomly picks a handful of readers and gives them, for a day or so, the power to describe others' comments with terms like "funny" or "off topic." Those descriptions are translated into a score from -1 to 5. Readers can set their filters so they see only comments with high ratings—and trollery effectively vanishes. One academic study found that the majority of Slashdot readers filter out comments rated 2 or lower. Indeed, the concept of crowd-voting has worked so well that sites as high-traffic as the The New York Times now use it.
How can you help to tame the comment troll?
as if we needed a newbie to start lecturing us on how these forums should be conducted.
Decided to post here and ask the ? .... Is Venomrock considered to be a troll? Oh and I accidently Put something on the tag for the cliche forum, didn't mean to do it, but I'm still learning. Today's my first time on Forums, and why don't the emoticons work on here?
Thank you. 
(TROLLS) 
makes for furthering what was why!...That is just my opinion and sharing the art of mankind for good human nature.....thanks for this inter-reaction 
