Whilst I believe some people deserve to be trolled for being idiots, I also believe it should be done in good taste i.e. it should prove that they're being stupid in the most polite way. Having said that, I've never trolled anyone so I'm not sure how you'd go about doing that. Have fun without hurting people's feelings.
The forum I've been on for 5 years have voluntary admin(s) "working" on it. They don't have time to catch all nasties all the time.
I supposed I get annoyed when nasties are allowed to get their way and are able to continue insulting and being rude on the forum with no one taking immediate action on them. It just gets the original posters along with other contributing members riled up for silly things.
Sometimes someone has a genuine question, you get these nasties joining the thread and flaming it the question or discussion, gets everyone else cross and arguing... then sometimes the thread gets deleted. WHAT A WASTE OF TIME. And the original poster does not get help in the end.
If the nasties are posed with truly intelligent remarks which basically shuts them down, they just *disappear* from that thread... and start annoying other posters in other threads!
But, I really think I'm wasting my time "chasing" these trolls. They are very few and very specific people (whom after getting banned just re-registers and login as a new user). They still get identified most of them time by
someone in the forum from the way they write or stories they repeat.
I don't get anything out of all this anyway (except for a nice feeling each time someone gets real help). Why am I addicted to helping these people?!!!
I know why - I haven't got real friends that I go out with where I'm living now!! Argh. I've answered my own question, haven't I.