lpetrich
Contributor
I'm not saying that 12-steppism is all that great, and I'm not saying that there is any actual "Trolls Anonymous" group, but I've thought about how a 12-step "Trolls Anonymous" could go. I have rewritten the original 12 steps to have a much more reasonable "higher power" and to avoid claiming absolute helplessless.
- We came to recognize that our trolling had made our online lives unsustainable.
- Came to recognize that Trolls Anonymous (TA) was far wiser than us about this issue, and that it could help restore us to sanity.
- Decided to get direction from TA in our online lives.
- Fearlessly searched our character and our personal history.
- Admitted to the TA community, to ourselves, and to other people the exact nature of our offenses.
- Got ourselves ready to accept TA's help in curing us of our trollishness.
- Humbly cooperated with other TA members in their efforts to help us overcome our trollishness.
- Made a list of people we had hurt with our trolling, and became willing to make amends to them.
- Made amends to such people as much as possible, describing to them that we were wrong to troll them and accepting admins' decisions to ban us.
- Continued to search through our character and actions, and promptly acknowledged any trolling we may have done.
- Set aside some time to contemplate our actions and to get a broader perspective and to decide which broader directions to take, including how to avoid trolling.
- Having fought our trollishness or even having gotten cured of it, we tried to carry our message to other trolls, and to follow these principles in all our affairs.