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@rachelmillman @HappyZinner Ms. Millman - Some friendly advice from somebody you don't know: sometimes it's best to shrug, give up, accept the reality that you've most been dealing with ummm ... anal sphincters ... and walk away.

It's not just you. Twitter is a cesspool.

@rachelmillman @HappyZinner You're not going to be able to reason with the mob, because the mob doesn't want to be reasonable. It just wants to attack and then enjoy your suffering.

@rachelmillman @HappyZinner You might think "I'm being attacked without just cause" and indeed, you are, but the real question is "what do you achieve by staying here and continuing this fight against a pack of sadistic narcissistic morons who don't care about the truth."

@rachelmillman @HappyZinner No matter what you say, they're not going to listen. The mob has grown to an unmanageable size. You could block every jerk who responded to you, and more would keep flooding in.

@rachelmillman @HappyZinner There's something called "Blockchain" that might help with this. It allows you to block all of the followers of a given user. It can be used to end a dogpiling, if that's what you want to do.

@rachelmillman @HappyZinner Somebody named "Erin Biba" can point you in the right direction, if that's what you want to do. But I think I have an even better idea.

@rachelmillman @HappyZinner The rest of us could walk out. The loudmouths on Twitter want to drive the rest of us out? Let us grant their wish, and then laugh as their "victory" turns to ashes in their mouths.

@rachelmillman @HappyZinner When people like them are the only ones left here, who's going to visit the site? Who is going to look at the ads? Who's going to read their tweets?

See the irony of this?

@rachelmillman @HappyZinner The trolls and other undesirables on Twitter only have power because of the presence of the people they afflict.

All that the rest of us have to do to beat them is to do next to nothing. Just walk away.

@rachelmillman @HappyZinner I'm not saying don't write or don't speak, but just choose your battlefields better.

Twitter favors the trolls.

@rachelmillman @HappyZinner On a blogging host, you can moderate your comments. On Twitter, you're stuck in a time consuming test of wills with a site built around a format that has encouraged superficiality and obnoxious behavior from day one.

@rachelmillman @HappyZinner I think you are spiraling at this moment, so consumed by anger at the unjust treatment you've received, that you've become so focused on how to win this one, that you've forgotten to ask yourself why you want to win it.

@rachelmillman @HappyZinner As long as you're heard somewhere, why does it need to be here?

@rachelmillman @HappyZinner If the traffic starts to flow in locations where the rules don't favor the bad actors, the rest of us will get to have healthier discussions.

As for the trolls - if they started writing their own blogs, who would link to them? Who would visit them?

@rachelmillman @HappyZinner Just walk away, because this only gets worse from here.

@rachelmillman @HappyZinner But if you do want to stay, which I don't recommend, at least unroll your threads.

Notice how the threading has broken down on your tweets? Mass replies make that happen. It's one of the facts that the trolls use to make discussions go their way.

@rachelmillman @HappyZinner Go to @ threadreaderapp, unroll your thread and you'll get something like this

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1165264…

which you can then archive

web.archive.org/web/2019082414…

archive.is/5Swbw

before deleting your unroll request, which will be of the form

unroll @ threadreaderapp

@rachelmillman @HappyZinner With the space removed between the @ and threadreaderapp

I stuck that in there to avoid setting off the bot.

You do that, after thread app reader has replied, so that the trolls won't ride its reply to evade your blocking of them.

@rachelmillman @HappyZinner That way, all of your comments can be seen in context, which is something that the trolls will try to prevent.

That will make your life a little easier, but really, just walk away. That's even easier.

@rachelmillman @HappyZinner unroll @threadreaderapp