Sunday, 2 September 2012

Put the Trolls back under the bridge

I always thought that trolls lived under bridges in fairy tales. It wasn’t until Charlotte Dawson’s
bad experience that I discovered that the name also applies to sad weirdos who get their kicks by spreading hate and vitriol to complete strangers. Personally this does not affect me, but, if remarks like “go hang yourself” harms just one person, then that is one too many. What really amazes me is that the woman responsible for these remarks works as a university MENTOR. My dictionary defines a mentor as a wise counsellor, so does that mean if a student comes to her asking for counsel she advises them to “go hang yourself”? How did this woman get her job?
The fact that she has been stood down on full pay is not good enough. She should be made to get some “wise counseling” and publically apologise to everyone she has harmed or upset with her behaviour.
To anyone who receives these hate messages, make public the senders name, if you know it, and complain to the site administrators and maybe some trolls will think twice about what they write.

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