alt Hacker NewsPost-Trump, I’ve been noting accounts with unhinged and hateful opinions, auto-flagging and downvoting whenever I see them around, and getting on with my life. (Or aspiring to, anyway.) Yelling at people who are aggressively wrong on the internet is hardly worth my time: there’s too many of them and they never change their mind. But perhaps I can make them feel unwelcome and cause them to leave.
I try really hard to assume good intentions and take the most charitable interpretation which leads me at times to engage with people like this. I need to recalibrate.
The most charitable interpretation sometimes is that the person is trolling rather than crazy and willfully misinformed.