Dunce capping your trolls

I needed a way to embarrass trolls on one of my sites. I was going to try Disemvoweler, but when I tried to enter an IP into the array, it broke everything. Don’t ask me why.

I finally found Troll Cap, which is cracking me up. That’s the instruction page - to download it, you have to go to WP-Plugins.net and search for "trollcap". The plugin takes some fearlessness of MySQL to put together, but there is a way to use it if all that table creation stuff scares you (just input the troll tag manually).

End result: it puts an image into the comments of people you add to the troll blacklist. The image can be anything you want. The default it a dunce cap with the word "troll" on it (two available sizes). Other options include that image with a black box that says "This is a Troll" and a blue background. It also inserts a "What is this?" link for people to click if they’re wondering why the image is there.

It’s a good way to let your readers know someone is being stupid and they should feel free to ignore him.