My thoughts on dealing with trolls:

1. Block them
2. Refer to step one
3. Take pleasure in the fact that you removed yet one more instance of drama from your life.

I've had very bad experiences with trolls to the point where someone posted my personal information in a newsgroup. Newsgroups, for those that don't know is a common name for an area of the Internet called Usenet. It came about from the old BBS (Bulletin Board System) before the Internet was invented. The way Usenet was structured was there were at minimum 11,000 different newsgroups, each one serving a different subject matter. There were newsgroups for self-help, applications, videos, pictures, music, general discussion, and each one would be oriented for a specific subject. So, let's say you were diagnosed with, I don't know, we'll pick a common one, cancer. You could search for newsgroups about cancer, subscribe to it, post a question or comment and once you hit 'Post', is propagates to thousands of servers throughout the world, which take a few minutes, well sometimes more than a few. You come back at a time in the future (that time depends on numerous factors) to see if someone replied to your post. Usenet was intended strictly as a means to communicate via text, meaning you could only post text messages. Think of it as an electronic bulletin board in a college dorm. You pop up a message and walk away and someone in the travels of their day, walks by and sees your post and replies to it. Then, someone figured out how to post any kind of file on Usenet by converting that binary file to a text file, posting the converted file and when someone comes along that wants that file, they download it and is automatically de-converted back to binary. So you could download music, videos, pictures, and yes, applications. Needless to say you could download a lot of free schtuff and yes, including porn. Well, I used to frequent this one newsgroup that dealt with female fitness models. There wasn't 'porn' posted there, just fit women in various stages of dress.

At one point I was on Usenet more than all other areas of the Internet combined. It was a really cool place to be back in the early 2000's to early 2010's. There was this one poster on that one newsgroup, and a few others who went by the name Dr. Arm. He was a troll of the highest magnitude and if you don't know what a troll is, google is your friend. Well, I ended up getting on the wrong side of this Dr. Arm and he found my IP address, and found out where I was posting from and posted my address and even went as far as posing as me in a computer programming newsgroup and insulted the members there and posted my IP. The guys there was too smart for him though and saw through his ruse but I did get a few pings on my router I couldn't explain.

Anyway, I learned my lesson. I don't feed the trolls. After one of two replies to people I don;t agree with, if they consistently try to get me riled up, I just block them. Life is too short to deal with the trolls of the Internet. I've only been a member here for a short time and already have blocked three or four people.

So please, take a little advice from a Usenet veteran. It's better to block the trolls instead of feeding them.