“Authoritarian-Minded Trolls Are Almost Always Mean”

I find the first criterion in the Code of Positive Trolls — Generosity — particularly useful, in my daily life, on- and off-line. Authoritarian-minded trolls are almost always mean. Ungenerosity is immanent in almost every drop of the pure poison they inject into our communities, through their Disinfolklore laden stories. “Is it Generous?” is a Good Enough test to sort quickly in real time which memes, if I allow them into my unguarded mind, will probably negatively provoke my Mana into communicating Negative emotions / energy / Mana into others’ minds / Mana.

Source: Applying the ‘Generosity’ Element of the Code of Positive Trolls

To be clear, I am not saying that all acts of Generosity are wise. Rather, that all Ungenerous sentiments immanent in memes we’re trying to assess on-the-fly should be regarded as suspicious. And as prima facie Disinfolklore. Authoritarianism and negative manipulations are almost always Ungenerous.

Source: Applying the ‘Generosity’ Element of the Code of Positive Trolls

The caveat matters: not all generous acts are wise. But virtually all Ungenerous messaging is suspicious. The Generosity test is a “Good Enough” provisional filter — it catches the vast majority of Disinfolklore because authoritarianism is structurally incapable of generosity.

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