Editing Malefic Trolls (section)

==Special Types of Malefic Trolls==
===Tech Debunkers===
* '''Overview''': Trolls who aggressively target discussions that blend technology with spirituality or metaphysics, mocking the idea that technology could have metaphysical implications.
* '''Tactics''': Overwhelm conversations with technical jargon and dismiss the metaphysical aspects as pseudo-science or fantasy.
* '''Factions''': [[Technomancer Collectives]], [[Digital Shamans]]

===Spiritual Cynics===
* '''Overview''': Trolls who attack the use of technology in spiritual practices, accusing it of degrading or commodifying the sacred.
* '''Tactics''': Post diatribes about how technology ruins spirituality, claiming tech-spiritual blends are inauthentic.
* '''Factions''': [[Technomancer Collectives]], [[Digital Shamans]]

===Blockchain Skeptics===
* '''Overview''': Trolls who attack decentralized technologies like blockchain, dismissing them as overhyped, unstable, or useless.
* '''Tactics''': Focus on failures or volatility in cryptocurrency to mock those invested in decentralization.
* '''Factions''': [[Decentralized Web Enthusiasts]], [[Cryptocurrency Privacy Advocates]]

===Government Plant Trolls===
* '''Overview''': Trolls that pretend to support decentralization but subtly push narratives that centralization or government regulation is inevitable or safer.
* '''Tactics''': Raise concerns about security risks in decentralized systems, promoting centralized control as more responsible.
* '''Factions''': [[Decentralized Web Enthusiasts]], [[Anonymous Hacktivist Cells]]

===Fiat Loyalists===
* '''Overview''': Trolls who aggressively defend traditional financial systems, attacking cryptocurrency advocates as scammers or fools.
* '''Tactics''': Post mocking comments about the failure of crypto, calling it a Ponzi scheme.
* '''Factions''': [[Cryptocurrency Privacy Advocates]]

===Utopia Skeptics===
* '''Overview''': Trolls who belittle utopian movements by calling them naïve, dangerous, or impossible to achieve.
* '''Tactics''': Use historical failures of similar movements to mock future-oriented visions.
* '''Factions''': [[The Venus Project]], [[The Zeitgeist Movement]]

===Anti-Tech Trolls===
* '''Overview''': Trolls who criticize movements reliant on technology, framing it as a negative force.
* '''Tactics''': Accuse technologists of relying too much on machines to solve problems better solved by human means.
* '''Factions''': [[The Venus Project]], [[Off-Grid Tech Innovators]]

===Economy Traditionalists===
* '''Overview''': Trolls who undermine alternative economic models by calling them impractical or socialist fantasies.
* '''Tactics''': Assert that free markets are the only viable economic system, dismissing other approaches.
* '''Factions''': [[The Zeitgeist Movement]], [[Mutual Aid Networks]]

===Survivalist Extremists===
* '''Overview''': Trolls who invade off-grid discussions, mocking sustainable practices for being too weak and promoting extreme survivalist methods.
* '''Tactics''': Post hostile comments about how off-grid communities won’t survive unless they adopt violent tactics.
* '''Factions''': [[Off-Grid Living Communities]]

===Industry Shills===
* '''Overview''': Trolls who work to discredit environmental movements by promoting corporate interests, downplaying activism as anti-progress.
* '''Tactics''': Post messages defending big industries and claim regulations will destroy the economy.
* '''Factions''': [[Radical Environmentalist Movements]]

===Climate Change Deniers===
* '''Overview''': Trolls who deny the existence or seriousness of climate change, targeting environmental groups.
* '''Tactics''': Use discredited studies to argue that climate change is a hoax or a natural process.
* '''Factions''': [[Radical Environmentalist Movements]]

===New Age Scammers===
* '''Overview''': Trolls who accuse digital shamans or spiritual tech movements of being fraudsters out to scam naive followers for profit.
* '''Tactics''': Post accusations of scams whenever digital spirituality services are mentioned.
* '''Factions''': [[Digital Shamans]]

===Armchair Hackers===
* '''Overview''': Trolls who pretend to have insider knowledge of hacktivist operations but mock real hacktivists for not being aggressive enough.
* '''Tactics''': Belittle active hackers for only tackling small-scale issues while offering no real solutions.
* '''Factions''': [[Anonymous Hacktivist Cells]]

===Postmodern Nihilists===
* '''Overview''': Trolls who mock movements like metamodernism for trying to find meaning in a world they claim is inherently meaningless.
* '''Tactics''': Use irony and sarcasm to dismiss any attempts at finding meaning or connection.
* '''Factions''': [[Metamodernist Movement]]

===Reductionist Trolls===
* '''Overview''': Trolls who dismiss philosophical or cultural movements as overcomplicated, belittling them as mental gymnastics.
* '''Tactics''': Condense complicated ideas into oversimplified statements to mock intellectual discussions.
* '''Factions''': [[Metamodernist Movement]], [[Esoteric Factions]]