RE: There's New Blood in The Cryptosphere: Girl Gone Crypto But Loser Crypto Boy Trolls Have Shut Her Down

[acidyo]

No wonder women have been hesitant so far to vlog about cryptocurrency.

How is it any different than women trying to vlog or stream in general? Go spend 10 minutes on Twitch's IRL section or anywhere else and you will see trolls constantly. I don't understand why you feel "crypto trolls" are much worse than regular trolls, to be really honest, the trolls on here have been much less in amounts and degree than what you see on other platforms.

Its a common issue, boys will be boys when they see women/girl vloggers/streamers knowing they are protected by anonymity. That's a big reason Twitch is filled with moderators (who are incentivized only by having a colored username in chat or being able to post different smileys) and a reason why Youtube started their "Youtube Heroes" thing where some reputable users with history of taking down inappropriate content are getting more power to do so and protect vloggers and viewers from reading troll stuff.

Here we have a downvote/flag system to fight that and the incentives for trolls to continue being trolls are a lot lower knowing they won't earn anything from it and their accounts (which are becoming harder to game and create many) will lose their reputation.

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[stellabelle]

I would bet that the number of crypto nerd trolls who can't communicate with women is fairly high.
I have not done any in-depth research on this troll issue in other communities. To me, coming from Medium, the trolls in crypto seem to be fairly saturated. If you have data, please provide it.

[acidyo]

There is plenty, google it. Here are a few articles of the top of my head.

http://time.com/4457110/internet-trolls/

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Twitter has it the worst:

Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's top lawyer, has admitted that the company has been "inexcusably slow" in fighting off the kind of vicious online abuse we saw in the Gamergate scandal, in which video game fans send rape and death threats to women who suggested that some games featured sexist portrayals of women.

On the same day, a study of 134,000 abusive social media mentions showed that 88% of them occur on Twitter. Only a tiny fraction of online abuse happens on Facebook or other social media.

http://www.businessinsider.com/statistics-on-twitter-abuse-rape-death-threats-and-trolls-2015-4?r=UK&IR=T&IR=T

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This isn't something that happens to women only either, sometimes it gets really dangerous for the streamers.

Not to mention the "trend" lately of SWATing streamers live and calling local places where they are located and getting them in trouble in many ways. This streamer that I have been following for quite a while lately was banned on Twitch because his viewers kept trolling him, the latest was sending a SWAT team to the airplane he was boarding.

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The internet is full of this. In my eyes this platform is one of the safest ones from troll abuse currently and I hope it remains that way.

[stellabelle]

thanks for the information.

[acidyo]

You are welcome.

I also checked out the video you were referring to and if you feel those comments were that bad, I think you haven't seen much of the internet in general.

[acidyo]

I would bet that the number of crypto nerd trolls who can't communicate with women is fairly high.

Why do you keep bringing crypto into it? How are nerd trolls that are into crypto different than nerd trolls who are into something else?