The important thing to remember is that you are dealing with a person who has essentially placed a twig on their head and expects you to believe they are a tree. Armored in that level of "confidence," almost anything you say will be construed by them as evidence that their tree disguise is working, so you will have to be very specific and to the point in addressing exactly what they're doing and why it's not fooling anyone.
Subtlety and sarcasm are great tools but there is no way in hell they will get through to this poor sap. Unless you're just toying with them for your amusement, the best way to put an end to it is just to be direct. Point them to this guide if necessary, explain that you know what they are doing, and that it is so obvious it can be seen from space.
Chances are they will just end up placing more twigs on their head, praying fervently that this will succeed, but at least you gave it your best shot.
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I have encountered every single one of these in the past week alone. Hell an anti-equality supporter who was citing discredited research and outright lies to support his argument why gay marriage must stay illegal used #1 on me. Others on the thread and I used facts and truth and logic to embarass and pwn his stupidity, and his reply to being so thoroughly butthurt in public was this;
"I can run circles around you all day, like I did with Fiona46, and manipulate the way you think and feel plus the way I want you to think and feel because you're my little online puppet. Every little joke, you took seriously and you're calling me a putz or a sexist pig.. classic! Now do you realize what I'm doing to you?"
I replied by linking him to this very Cracked Topic and citing technique Number 1, mocking him further, and making a half-assed burn about if he wants to dance he should remember that I'm the DJ, (because honestly at that point he wasn't worth putting my best effort into it), and dismissed him as a failure.
He hasn't posted a single word since.
Thanks Cracked for a one-stop shopping reference to use against idiot trolls! Hell just 5 minutes ago I cited this article to an idiot and his two "best buddies" on YouTube (One calls me a faggot, within 2 minutes the other two who type EXACTLY the same way, same syntax, spelling errors and grammar patterns are agreeing with him). For a comedy topic, this shit has been more useful to me than bloody Wikipedia!
You're a goon. You have to be.
Oh, come now, number ten is pure poetry. I am indubiately ashamed by his displey of language. XD
And number 11? A pure masterpiece of comedy genius! Truly the epitome of internet humor!