Hi, Swellcast community. Beautiful soul here and I came to speak. My wisdom tooth is finally healing much better. I swear. I've been fighting through speaking for the last week. If anybody know what dry socket is had dry socket and it is the worst. The worst. Anyway, this is not what this Swellcast is about. This swellcast is about trolls. Internet slang for a person who intentionally tries to instigate conflict, hostility or arguments in an online social community
Andrea Piggue
@Andrea_Speaks · 2:34
If people in your talking community are if they follow them or people in your talking community follow that person or that person follows them, you may still be able to see it. But if you block them and you can still see them, then you might want to report it, that you block them and you can still see them and they can still see you and invite you to stuff. You might want to report that. So that I personally haven't blocked anybody because I don't mind conversations
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 2:48
Hello. Well, I tend to block people quite often on Swell, and a lot of it is due to excessive invites. So rest assured, when you block the person, you'll never get an invite from them again. They cannot direct message you, and they cannot comment on any of your Swells, but you still can see their activity on the feed in the threads, so be forewarned of that
SOUL MIND
@BEAUTIFULSOULMI · 1:52
So it's just really awkward, you know what I mean? Awkward. But anyway, we'll see if I report it, we'll see what other type of strangeness will happen in the future. All right
SOUL MIND
@BEAUTIFULSOULMI · 2:28
And I had trolls and I know how to deal with them at that time, but this is a little bit different. So I just was wondering if Swell had trolls. And Ms. Andrea did say, anytime there's something good, there's always going to be something bad. And it's Internet. Trolls are everywhere. Swell is not immune to trolls. But I will block again and we'll see how this excels in the future. But thanks
Cheyonia Wade
@Chey · 1:45
You? Yes, I had. My first troll was an inbox message. And sometimes trolling comes in another form. I will post something and I will notice that there is a comment made somewhere else that's very similar to what posted, but it's a little like aggressive. And I'm like and it's so funny because it was just yesterday that it happened to me. And I'm listening to the reply and I was like, Wait a minute
SOUL MIND
@BEAUTIFULSOULMI · 1:39
So when I get these weird messages in my inbox, I think to myself, wow, was it a post or something that invoked this type of correspondence with me? I'm thinking, what could I have done to provoke this? And it's nothing. It's nothing that I could have done to provoke such a question and such follow up questions. But, yeah, I'm learning to block. I think I've almost hit 30 days, and I was so enjoying
Cheyonia Wade
@Chey · 0:51
When you get your tooth pulled after the I think, what, 4 hours or 24 hours of holding that little gauze and start to swish that around in your mouth, by day four, you're good to go. When I follow up with the dentist, they're like, well, what did you do? And I'll be like, I got my secret weapon
Trolls have definitely showed up on Swell. Not as many as in the past, but there's definitely the variety from the rude questions to rude statements to the catfishing and so on in public messages and private. I've definitely had some of my own. I know that Swell has done things on the back end to limit the number of accounts perhaps that can be opened by trolls. I don't know exactly what that entails
Himanshi Thakur
@GreyMatter · 1:52
I don't know really how blocking works in swell I'm yet to discover. So I'm really sorry that I cannot really answer your questions. But I think if you think that if anybody is taking conversation in any undesirable direction, then it's better to block them and just ignore them and let them go. It's absolute waste of energy to engage in such toxic and meaningless conversations
Caleb Brown
@jesus_is_lord · 2:33
So you can try to humiliate me when you could have just kept it to yourself, then move on and say, okay, this guy is weird. Moved on, but you have to make a post about this, so I don't appreciate that post. Yeah, I get it. I asked a weird question, but what was that? That was about two weeks ago. I said that it was about a week and a half ago when I said that, right?
Caleb Brown
@jesus_is_lord · 0:46
Listen. Yeah, I asked a weird question. I was talking about butt agony, and that was weird, right? I can admit that, and I apologize for that, but you don't have to bash me for this, bro. You don't have to talk about and what she's doing is wrong. It yeah, I talked about butt agony, and as a man, that's weird, right?
SOUL MIND
@BEAUTIFULSOULMI · 1:52
Jesus is Lord. I'm not really sure how you're still able to see my post if I blocked you. I guess my blocking privileges have been revoked for whatever reason there is. But you don't need any help with anybody embarrassing you. You're doing quite a fine job of that yourself. Now I am in the healthcare field, maybe you have some mental issues that you need to get treated it don't be embarrassed about needing mental health support. There's nothing wrong with it
I've seen that pop up in other places, and I wasn't sure if someone had manually typed that into their profile or if that was something displayed by the app. But, yeah, it looks like Swell has maybe taken some steps. Interestingly, you never mentioned the person's name, and so we had no way of knowing who this is. And the fact that they replied, they kind of outed themselves
Just had a thought. Maybe this is a second account they've made. Maybe the account that you originally blocked them on had a different username. Because it looks like the replies here are the only two that they've done with this account. And maybe that's all that they ever did publicly. But this also could have been a backup account or something like that. Either way, it looks like it's gone now
And I hear all of these concepts, internet trolling and this and that, and the third and the fourth, Facebook. I shouldn't have said Facebook. I'm gonna say social media. Go on these social media apps, and each one of these apps have rules. You can't say this, you can't do that, you can't do this, don't say that. This is offensive to these people. This is offensive there
SOUL MIND
@BEAUTIFULSOULMI · 5:00
Dynamic diction. I like to first start off by saying thank you so much for serving our country. I'm very appreciative of it and you certainly fought for more than freedom of speech. I think everyone should exercise their freedom of speech, no doubt about it, because I'm exercising mine as you are exercising yours. I think everyone soul have access to social media and everyone should feel comfortable on social media
SOUL MIND
@BEAUTIFULSOULMI · 3:34
It's. Self work is hard, extremely emotional, and most are not ready or even know how to fight their own traumas from the past or even current traumas. Some of us even worry about things that haven't even happened yet. And you know, I believe that women are emotional by design. We are nurturing, and most of us have motherly instincts. But wow, I just hear something else in you. I see a different vision for you
Cheyonia Wade
@Chey · 5:00
So I'm not going to remove myself and I am going to reply to your swell. Trolling is a real thing and this is a conversation. The purpose of this platform is to be able to hold conversations. And as one of the women on this thread, maybe we was having a little beauty shop talk. But we have that right, like you said. And I don't mind someone challenging our concept or understanding or misunderstanding
Cheyonia Wade
@Chey · 0:28
It's. While we're at it, could someone explain to me what the bell means? I see it only on some cast, and I'm not sure it's not on the invited ones, so I don't know, I thought maybe those were urgent. But if anyone knows, you know. Can you just tell me what the bell over in the little right hand corner. And you're not notifications me?
And so you'll see a notification that said seeking plum replied to and then the name of the swell. And so there's just that slight difference. The bell basically is highlighting ones that specifically mention you. Hope that helps
L A
@homosanity · 1:25
Just a quick question or something. I don't know how to do that. I know somebody else said you can check algorithms to see how your casts are going. I don't even know how to do that. So I guess I got to figure some things out here. I hope I don't get any trolls. I remember when I was one time I was a troll in elementary school for the Three Billy Goats Gruff. And I sang I'm a troll, fody trolls
SOUL MIND
@BEAUTIFULSOULMI · 0:35
You. Hi, Swellcasters. I am just intrigued that this post has reached over 500 plays. Well, I only have a little over 100 followers, so I'm going to name this the Troll Admission and Discharge Station. If you are a troll out there in the Swellcast community, please leave a reply under this post so we can talk about you hanging up your troll badge and being an actively positive participant in the Swellcast community. Thanks so much for listening
