Responding to Netizen's Comment

Netizen's Reaction:

How do you know the person is just giving an opinion and the person who is up to troll you?

Response:

To further differentiate between expressing an opinion and trolling, here are some big points for you to know the good guy. and the person who will give you misery and a thousand sleepless nights.

1. First is the way they convey their message.

A troll is a person who intentionally tries to instigate conflict, hostility, or arguments in an online social community. Trolls often use inflammatory messages to provoke emotional responses out of people, disrupting otherwise civil discussion. 

Somebody just expressing an opinion use a nice and diplomatic way of delivering their thoughts.  They don't resort to name-calling especially if other members don't agree with them.

2.  The Motivation

In their daily interactions, people who are just expressing an opinion are motivated by positive social rewards, meaning that they experience positive feelings after engaging in friendly or helpful discussions with others.

Trolls are a bit different. They have negative social potency, as they like to cause mischief and suffering, along with the attention that comes with it.

3. The Friendship

Most online users often end up being online friends. They shared their real identities. Trolls on the other hand take advantage of this anonymity, making it easy to avoid real consequences for their nasty behavior.

4. Repeated attacks and Persistence

Ordinary opinion givers the moment he or she senses trouble, practice the art of letting go or just simply ignore it. Trolls are very persistent. When trolls sense that they’re getting an emotional response out of someone, they usually won’t stop until they’ve gotten their victim sufficiently riled up. And one attack leads to another.

5.  Outlandish claims

Ordinary opinion giver doesn't go with the jugular. Most of them go with the Truth and what is right. Trolls are known for their outlandish and outrageous claims. They will often make ridiculous statements about the subject at hand, again with the expectation that they will get an emotional response from people. Trolls won’t necessarily believe the outrageous claims they make, but their goal is to convince you that they do believe it.

6.  Attention

Ordinary opinion givers just love to pass their time on the internet and indulge in productive intelligent discussions. Trolls are argumentive in a lively discussion. It is exactly what trolls feed off of because they love the attention.

7. Presence of Mind

Ordinary opinion givers have that presence of mind of knowing the demarcation line when they are treading a potential minefield. They don't exaggerate either. Trolls don't know their limits and boundaries. The more they become explosive and the more expletive they used the better for them.

On well-moderated forums, an administrator should catch trolling early and ban the offending user or delete trolling comments, depending on how offensive they are.

If the trolling is abusive or offensive, you should be able to report trolls who have made themselves known. How to report someone for trolling will vary depending on the site or forum you’re on. It may be as simple as clicking a Report button, but if all else fails you can usually use a site’s Contact Us link to send an email letting the site's administrators know about inappropriate behavior.