LogFAQs > #905149462

#1 people never ignored trolls.
#2 the reason people said to ignore trolls was typically because they weren't breaking any rules on the particular place they were active
#3 If ignoring trolls is wrong, what are you supposed to do?

If you don't like the rules where you're posting, then find a board where trolls aren't allowed. But I don't think this is what the article is about. The rise in "anti-trolling" lately has come from the downright criminal harassment some people have found themselves victims from, in some cases ignoring them could have worked. But in others it's just criminal harassment, not trolling. To me trolling is some ass hole doing false ignorance on a forum, not someone doxxing a person and getting them thousands of phone calls a day or swatting or other criminal activities.