You called him a troll. By that definition, he likes your attention. The choices are feed the troll and live with, maybe learn to enjoy the resulting walls of text, or Block them.
Sorry to remind you, there is no in-between. Even if he had some sort of aneurism/epiphany and suddenly wanted to break character to do things more to your liking, he would do so under a new username, or be laughed back into the role everyone has come to expect. Been There Done That.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 4 weeks ago
I don’t usually talk directly to this person. I interacted with him a little bit in these comments, which might have been a mistake. You’re completely right that it is a waste of time. Most of the time, I’m talking to other people who might read the comments.
I am completely serious, though, in what I was saying about being concerned. To cut a long story short, I’ve been curious enough to examine a lot of these weird political propaganda accounts, and I think this person is just a freelance individual honestly spending every free waking moment posting on Lemmy about their particular brand of politics, and working themselves into a state of cognitive dissonance where it’s a good thing that they’re getting so much attention from it, even if it’s negative, and that’s why they keep doubling down. As you said, a troll. I don’t know why I decided to feed the troll, in this instance, but if you unfocus your eyes and really look at this story and this posting pattern, you can see someone behind the keyboard who’s really in a very bad and unhealthy state.
@UniversalMonk@lemmy.world: I think you should try an experiment. Write the same three thousand word campy horror story, put the same mad energy into it, but don’t make it a mean-spirited attempt to open a new front in the conflict you have created between you and everyone else on US political Lemmy. Just write a story. Be creative without clinging to the conflict you’ve created. You can even keep the Monk character, you can have him fuck the witch, whatever you like, just without the same budding school-shooter energy where it has to involve your enemies finally getting theirs.
See which process you enjoy more. Maybe you’ll enjoy the one where the mom-basement-dwelling person who called you a Russian bot finally gets their comeuppance. It has a certain mean-spirited satisfaction. I get that. But I think you will have a better feeling from just letting go of that, for a little while, and putting the energy into having fun writing a story.