I haven't noticed much of that sort of thing around here, was someone trolling you or was it something that you've noticed happening to others? I had some coward downvote me recently but I haven't seen anyone with the balls to come out and have a direct go at me.

I used to collect trolls on a forum I frequented in the past, whenever I noticed a new one I'd put myself in their sights and then divert their energy away from the original victim. The psychology of a troll is very basic and easily manipulated so it was a bit of sport too.

They can present themselves as quite intelligent for a while but after a while they tend to reveal their personality complex (usually a mummy or daddy complex they aren't mature enough to deal with) that makes them want to score points at the expense of others. So whenever I got a whiff of that I'd go for jugular and they always left in shame with a free psycho analysis to give them something to work on to better themselves.

Trolling is normally a cry to mummy or daddy for attention.