0067: How To Really Stick It To Online Trolls

Hey there, hero!

For as supportive a community that we as actors and voice talent often have in person, online communities can be filled with trolls.

They are arrogant, opinionated, insulting, and love to provoke normal, law-abiding citizens.

(Been to a Facebook audiobook narrator group lately?)

I've often wondered what the best way is to deal with these fools, and have also been listening lately to a podcast from Stanford Professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology Dr. Andrew Huberman...who just happened to give me this:

Understand “reward prediction error” & you will never reply to a negative comment again. Negative comments open a dopamine anticipation loop (in the commenter). Respond and the circuit closes; they get rewarded. Don’t respond & their dopamine will eventually drop below baseline.

https://twitter.com/hubermanlab

Apparently, "don't feed the trolls" is actually a thing.

How do you feel when you get trolled? What do you usually do about it? Respond? How? And what will you do now? Let me know in the comments below.

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