Please don't feed the troll? [was Re: Call for Aman's banning]

[Towse]

And even earlier (using the Google Groups search), a subject header on
a thread was changed to "Please don't feed the trolls" in
alt.sex.wanted on 10 Jan 1995.

<http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sex.wanted/msg/0bd2a177f70e8185>

... and before that the usual admonition seems to have been "ignore the troll"

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On 5/21/07, Baker, John <JMB at stradley.com> wrote:
>         A little earlier on Google Groups, from 4/11/1995:  "Haven't you
> read the signs on the net "Don't feed the trolls". Do you know what
> happens when you feed trolls, you get more troll shit."
>
>
> John Baker
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf
> Of Erik Hoover
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 7:55 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Please don't feed the troll? [was Re: Call for Aman's banning]
>
> Meine Damen und Herren,
>
> Does anyone have the earliest citation for "Please don't feed the
> troll", used in newsgroups and community message boards?  It is an
> admonition to ignore belligerent posters.
>
> The earliest I have found is the less formal "Don't feed the troll"
> in a post from December 12 1997 in the Google newsgroup archive.
>
> Maybe this has been examined or discussed in detail in the past.  If so,
> my apologies.
>
> Hochachtungsvoll,
>
> Erik
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