Internet trolls are not a new phenomenon, but people have yet to find a way to effectively stop these woeful web goers from spoiling the fun for the rest of us. They flood forums, blogs, news sites, social media networks and any other page that supports open discussions with the deplorable goal of ruining any hope of meaningful conversation. You'll probably see comments from many trolls below this very post (sit tight, we're working on rolling out an easy way to hide the comments section completely).
Trolling is obviously annoying and sometimes even exasperating, but many people don't realize that it's much worse than that. As noted in a recent report, we now have actual scientific proof that trolls are ruining the Internet.
Scientific proof that trolls are ruining the Internet