KillTroll

Desired outcome: open source browser extension that allows the user to easily indicate troll comments, and then remove comments from the same person from the rest of the page being viewed, and from any other page from that blog, or, from any blog.

Name

The kill file is a well known per-user file that you could configure to hide Usenet postings from specific people, or subjects etc.

I want to write the same thing, but for blog comments.

The working name for this project is KillTroll.

Scenario

You're reading a blog post, and then the comments, and see negative comments made by an individual.

You don't have time to analyze/classify this individual according to the TrollTaxonomy, or perhaps you have already done so.

You don't want to ever see comments from this individual ever again, at least not on the blog you're reading.

Wouldn't it be great if you could kill comments from this individual and never have to see them?

Use case

Kill the comment troll

When reading blog comments, you find one that is so negative that you don't want to read anything from that person on this blog.

You hover over the name of the commenter in the page and a tiny popup menu appears (ala Flickr user icons and profile menu drop downs) that lets you "kill comments from this person" (wording to be adjusted).

Choosing the option, the negative comment immediately disappears, and so do any other comments on the page from that person.

Reading another blog post on that blog, you notice that there are no comments from the troll you just killed.

Kill the troll across sites

You're reading another blog and notice the same person writing negative comments.

You hover over their name, but this time in addition to "kill comments from this person on this blog", there is a second option: "kill comments from this person across all sites".

You're sure from these two negative experiences that you have no need or desire to see comments from this person on any site, so you choose "kill comments from this person across all sites" and the comments from that person again disappear from that page.

You notice that no matter what blog or site you read, you don't see any comments from that person anywhere.

Prototype

• Greasemonkey script
• write it based on actual examples from the TrollTaxonomy
• add support for more blogging platforms, CMSs, sites based on experience/need
• along with the name/email/URL of the troll, store the permalink of their comment which was marked as a troll, and use that to kill trolls from that commenter on that same site, and also present the list of trolls being blocked along with the domains (or all), and the original comment URLs which caused them to be marked as trolls.

Extras

• when marking a comment as a troll, optionally tag it with the type of troll (perhaps drop down from the TrollTaxonomy plus free text tags).
• Shared KillTroll lists
• share/publish in a microformat just the name/email/URL of the trolls (XOXO+hCard)
• or also the trolltags placed upon them about what type of troll they are (+rel-tag)
• or also the offending comments which caused them to be marked as trolls (+xfolk)
• incorporate automatic abuse reporting so that simply killing a troll will report the person to the site's adminstrator(s) and perhaps the troll will disappear from even the server-side so their comments can't be seen by anybody.

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