My wife, Sparkly, often posts on the WAPO boards. She reports a huge drop in trolls.

[Stinky The Clown]

I often tease her about "typing to morons". She enjoys sparring. She is also good at separating our home grown right wing morons from the St. Petersburg crew. The St. Petersburg (or wherever they actually are) crew seems to have closed up shop.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. I've noticed the same thing

Very quiet lately

[electric_blue68]

2. That'd be good, even just for a while.

[mitch96]

3. Like Washington Post boards?..nt

[Grasswire2]

7. yes

I enjoy them, too.

It's fun to spank the trolls.

[MLAA]

4. Please tell Sparkly to carry on and give 'em hell ❤️

[SheltieLover]

5. Rubles are worthless.

[captain queeg]

6. I'm shocked.

[Earth-shine]

8. Perhaps they have been conscripted into military service.

[Qutzupalotl]

9. Facebook is quiet too

Quieter, anyway. Normal life stuff, not so much politics. Hard to believe.

[Indykatie]

10. Troll Traffic is Down Big Time on Twitter Too

I'm also not seeing anti-Biden bullsh*t trending after midnight. I always knew it's wasn't Americans driving the anti-Biden hatred at 2:00 AM.

[Bev54]

11. I think they have all gone to the Ukraine webcams on Youtube.

I occasionally drop in to see if anything is happening and the comments are all trolls.

[smirkymonkey]

12. I have noticed the same thing.

It's kind of refreshing.

[bmbmd]

13. I've noticed a drop off

In Spam calls and texts from young ladies just dying to meet me.

[spooky3]

14. Very interesting. Nt

[AdamGG]

15. A lot of the Russian trolls there are comically obvious

Maybe they've gotten more sophisticated, but I posted on the WaPo boards a lot during the 2016 election and there were many Russians whose English was so poor that it was very easy to spot them if you read one or two sentences of their posts.

I remember one who kept referring to Hillary as "the housewife". He was so obviously not American that I didn't understand how these trolls could be having any effect, other than unintended humor. It was like reading posts from Dan Akroyd's and Steve Martin's wild & crazy guys from Saturday Night Live.

[dflprincess]

18. When I spot ones like that

I usually ask them if they can't ask Vlad for better translators.

[AZLD4Candidate]

16. They are alive and kicking on YouTube, Yahoo, and AOL boards.

[dflprincess]

17. I've noticed that at the Star Tribune website

though there's a couple of new ones that have me wondering how they got through.

Also, The View's twitter feed seems to have fewer around, though again, there's a couple really nasty ones hanging on.

[AllyCat]

19. Not as many on Twitter either.

[NoMoreRepugs]

20. Sanctions work don't they???

[Stuart G]

21. Thank You for posting...K and R.. Thank You for Sharing Your Posts with us.

[AllaN01Bear]

22. wish the sanctions would do something for these pesky land line robocalls too.

[Sugarcoated]

23. @joebiden @potus @vp on Instagram is absolutely swamped with Russians

mostly writing in Russian, which of course I don't understand, and Russian flags. There are responses from, I'm guessing, Russian and Ukrainian Americans pushing back in English. It's a new tactic and I'm certain is coordinated.

[PatrickforB]

24. Lots of trolls still on The Hill where I post many times.

I too like the sparring.

[JonAndKatePlusABird]

29. I dare say, even here

Seems a tiny bit more peaceful. While we may all disagree (we’re Democrats, we do it well!), it all just seems…..less acerbic?

[PufPuf23]

30. I hope much of the decline in trolls is a decline in true believers

that disperse the BS; specifically, that some of the decline is because the former posters were served a vicious dose of reality.