Tweet If you have a blog you’ll attract trolls. If you have an opinion, a position, anything - you’ll attract people who disagree, and a few who are violently or rudely opposed to you and your idea or input. If you comment on someone else’s blog, or participate in anyway online - you will encounter pinheads, jerks, trolls and flamers who have no lives and no goal in life other than to make you miserable.

I have some good advice for dealing with all of them. Respond ONE time with the phrase above:

“Your Application to Rent Space in My Head? Denied.” Then ignore them. If they’re not paying for your time and you don’t value their input, then don’t give them free rent.