Classic AD&D rules suggest the use of acid-tipped and incendiary ammunition against trolls, since they can regenerate from other types of damage.<p>If you've got a bunch of trolls gathered in one place, strafing them in an A-10 Thunderbolt II is <i>tons</i> of fun. The GAU-8/A Avenger autocannon rips apart trolls as easily as it does tanks.
The real way to deal with the vast majority of trolls is to be a mature adult and not place worth in what a stranger thousands of kilometers away thinks or pretends to think about you.<p>If a stranger screams at you for being a 'fag' or whatever in real life, it's not a situation you can easily avoid and there can be very real physical threat attached to it. Online, you have a block button and more often than not plenty of options to go private.<p>I think the suggestion of 'non-anonymity' is incredibly unsound, too. The normalization of using your real life details on the net has not improved trolling, it has allowed it to far more easily slip off of the internet and cause real life problems if you happen to meet someone who believes they're acting with moral indignation.
> Exiting social media today would be like getting rid of your telephone 20 years ago.<p>Not at all. While my ex from college said that I "fell off the face of the earth" when all I did was delete Facebook, really I've had no trouble staying in touch with people.<p>What is lacking about phones, emails, WhatsApp, Discord, etc.?