One word: Photoshop.
As I posted elsewhere the solution to trolling is simple: ban whomever responds seriously to an obvious troll and permanently and IP-ban anyone that makes a thread complaining about a known troll.
And don't ban trolls.
Trolls crave attention and reaction, it's the whole purpose of the exercise. If you ban them then you've once again played their game. You've confirmed that their trolling is working and it will simply be a matter of time before they return.
When you take the troll's bait YOU become part of the problem.
When you make a thread bitching about the troll what do you think the troll is doing? Jerking off at your frustration and rage. The madder you get, the more incentive the troll has to keep on doing what is obviously working.
If instead you ban the posters that are, by replying seriously to the troll, encouraging this disruptive behaviour, then you take away the troll's power base.
Why do you think trolls keep coming back here? Because you're such very easy bait. I guarantee that the troll(s) that got up in your shit with the conspiracy theory stuff is/are reading all of these threads, laughing his/her ass off, as would I if I still was trolling such easy mopes.
And he/she/they WILL be back, probably using some other bullshit to troll you with, but the result will be the same.
And ask yourself one question: why do you give two flying fucks what somebody on some forum says? "AHMAGERD SUMBODY IZ WRONG ON TEH INTERNETZ I'LL SCHOOL'EM"
So that's what I propose to deal with trolls: ban ANYONE that takes their bait seriously. Mocking them, calling out their game is fair sport.
Get angry and reply: bye bye.
