H'mm. I met a troll once. In fact he stayed with me for a few days, cped next to my narrowboat. Met him through a forum where he was quite reepectful, but I knew what he was up to elsewhere. With a chosen name of Brian the Troll, how could I not!

I expressed kindness to him, bought him a couple of meals, bought his beer etc. because he reckoned he was broke.

I listened to his stories of how he was an abused child by the Catholic Church. (He eventually got compensation.)

My mistake was to ignore a text message from him. From that moment I became a target.

It got very bad. Everywhere I turned on t'internet, he was there, giving it some, undermining my reputation (which wasn't that good in the first place!)

Eventually I reminded him that I knew where his grandkids (yes, he is that old!)were and when they reached 18 I would send them a copy of all his online abuse so they could see what kind of person their grandfather really was.

Then it stopped, for me at least.