The standard advice – ‘don’t feed the trolls’,it’s just a spotty teenager – is often well-meaning, but it normalises harassment and isn’t too helpful. So, or what finish you finish?
The only thing nearly as demoralising and frustrating as being bombarded with online abuse is listening to the things people repeatedly tell you when they find out you’re experiencing online abuse. It’s the reason that when the Guardian recently published its research into the tone and content of 70m comments on its articles – and the methodology used – I couldn’t bring myself to read the responses “below the line”.
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Source: theguardian.com