Trader Pat wrote: ↑Mon Jun 11, 2018 2:15 pm
eightbo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 11, 2018 10:05 am
Personally, I like to address and 1-up the hater. I find genuine joy in picturing the hater reading the response and getting all worked up
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You've essentially dealt with the issue by doing so, and how you structure your response can help aid those neutrals reach a conclusion as to whether or not to believe the comment. If they were to reply further, you can just ignore them (continued low-effort).
My only worry with this would be a never ending back and forth but if you can have the discipline to ignore them after the first comment its probably the best way.
Yeah, I mean you should view it as a game, one you need to apply strategy to. I suspect you could learn that discipline if you cared enough.
I've got a bit of a following from a video game I play and am no stranger to haters.
The recipe for a hater seems to be:
The person can't do what you do (jealousy / disbelief / spite / etc.)
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The person has certain personality traits (short-tempered / reach conclusions easily / happy to believe things which aren't proven / etc.)
I think there's two main categories of hater:
- the bored hater / troll (not very invested)
- the invested hater (you've upset them in some way and they're seeking vengeance)
The former will quickly give up if you don't give them attention, their comments are probably pretty basic and neutrals will be familiar with this kind of comment so will probably dismiss it easily.
But the invested hater should be dealt with, as their stories are probably more advanced, they may well return scale up the frequency / severity of their posts if it appears can get away with it (think Stanford Prison Experiment).
Addressing then ignoring saves face and provides some necessary resistance to mitigate that scaling up where possible.
Hater's are people too, and won't like being made fun of, so that approach can dissuade them from 'scaling up'.
There must be other ways to reach the same end, though.
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