Troll-y folly

Fairytale Troll

There's been quite a bit of local interest recently around what to do with trolls.  Was there ever a better term coined for what these people are - nasty, petty, miserable creatures, just like the ones from the fairy tales.

It's great to see that they are now widely recognised as bullies and we know what we need to do with bullies - shame them and close them down.

DomPost cover 9/3/2013

I've seen a few local articles just this week - the feature article of the 'Your Weekend' magazine in the Dominion Post and these articles on the Stuff website.

Local troll (Stuff article)

Here be trolls (Stuff article)

People are at least talking about this problem and showing us how to recognise these miscreants.  Awareness that we have a problem is the the first step to putting it right.