Most trolls operate anonymously. The effect, usually intentional, goes by the name “threadjacking” ― moving the discussion to a subject area where the troll feels comfortable and in control. Readers of this blog will recall my late 2011 encounter with trolls and threadjackers in several photo-specific online forums.
As part of this blog’s opinionating on that subject, I invited photographer and writer Ken Schles to provide a Guest Post from his perspective. In our email exchanges leading up to that, Ken suggested that one should view participation in a forum as analogous to beachcombing, with its unexpected discoveries and other attendant pleasures.
Source: Forumization and Its Malcontent (5) « Photocritic International: