Responding to haters... works?

well,like symph said it all depends how you respond to them..all trolls have a different way of "hating" on a video. some are aggressive and threatening ..some leave pointless comments like "you suck" and some just leave stupid comments that make no sense like the one droidiinator got not too long ago.

only thing i can say about dealing with trolls is this... they are everywhere..this is the internet and they will never go away..best thing to do is ignore it and move on unless its out of control then you can flag and report and all these kinds of things..Now if you're pretty good at handling your self and you have no problem twisting some people up...then Trolls can be the greatest thing about youtube lol

all in all ..just depends on the situation.

Yeah I reported all the comments and blocked all the accounts. He was basically spamming my video with the same comment over and over again, and I just had enough haha. I know that they will never go away, but at least they seem to be leaving me alone right now lol. I usually don't respond to them, but I figured if I did it this time nicely, they might stop.. which so far they have.
 
well,like symph said it all depends how you respond to them..all trolls have a different way of "hating" on a video. some are aggressive and threatening ..some leave pointless comments like "you suck" and some just leave stupid comments that make no sense like the one droidiinator got not too long ago.

only thing i can say about dealing with trolls is this... they are everywhere..this is the internet and they will never go away..best thing to do is ignore it and move on unless its out of control then you can flag and report and all these kinds of things..Now if you're pretty good at handling your self and you have no problem twisting some people up...then Trolls can be the greatest thing about youtube lol

all in all ..just depends on the situation.

well and I want to stress, if you FEEL butt hurt, no matter how hard you try you will SOUND butt hurt. If you FEEL hurt by the comment do NOT respond. The only way to do it right is if you HONESTLY don't care. I have had comments that got under my skin a bit because they hit closer to home than others did but I wanted to keep up my "rep" with a good response, I look back at those responses and I can SEE my own butt hurt. Like... unless you truly ARE above it, don't try to pretend to be.
 
So recently someone has been mass-disliking my videos with multiple accounts (About 12-13). Well I guess they realized it wasn't really affecting me much because they started to leave hate comments. I was simply deleting the comment and blocking the channel, but I decided to respond to one.

Now I know responding to trolls can turn bad, I usually suggest that no one replies to them. But I figured i'd give it a shot. So I made the comment as nice as possible. I said that it's not affecting me if that's what they're after, and they are wasting their time commenting and thumbing up their comment on multiple accounts. (The comment would get 6-7 thumbs up in a minute.. I don't get enough traffic for that to be legit).

To my surprise, the comments and dislikes have stopped. I haven't received any more mass-dislikes, or hate comments since. Now of course it may to be to early to judge, but usually within the first day of a new upload I receive mass-dislikes. It's actually a great feeling that maybe the person decided to actually leave me alone. I just wish I know what I did to make him mad, but then again it could just be a troll who does this to multiple people for the heck of it. I also haven't got botted since (But I don't know if this is the same person who has botted my channel).

I'm now crossing my fingers that this person is finally going to leave me alone. I hope that since I responded in a polite manner, and not in a rude way, they changed their mind about me and/or my channel. Have you ever had a troll/hater that wouldn't leave you alone?
MASS DISLIKES
12-13??
 
well and I want to stress, if you FEEL butt hurt, no matter how hard you try you will SOUND butt hurt. If you FEEL hurt by the comment do NOT respond. The only way to do it right is if you HONESTLY don't care. I have had comments that got under my skin a bit because they hit closer to home than others did but I wanted to keep up my "rep" with a good response, I look back at those responses and I can SEE my own butt hurt. Like... unless you truly ARE above it, don't try to pretend to be.

dem capitalized words!!!
 
I have never had a hater leave a rude comment and then
thumb it up. Even if they did, it wouldn't last more than
eight hours because I delete anything that is disrectful
or not family friendly. Delete and block.

Since the spammers use the thumbs-up comments feature,
I no longer enable that function. Instead of a thumb, I have
a finger for them now.
 
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