4Chan is probably not the best choice of a site to emulate in this context; it’s clearly extremely successful at community-building, but its values concerning discussion could hardly be more different from ours. Describing it as “trolls trolling trolls trolling...” is almost a cliche, and one more or less borne out by my limited experience with the site.
On the other hand, I’m certain that the “don’t feed the troll” meme predates it considerably.
4Chan is probably not the best choice of a site to emulate in this context; it’s clearly extremely successful at community-building, but its values concerning discussion could hardly be more different from ours. Describing it as “trolls trolling trolls trolling...” is almost a cliche, and one more or less borne out by my limited experience with the site.
On the other hand, I’m certain that the “don’t feed the troll” meme predates it considerably.
Goes back to Usenet at least, I’m pretty sure.