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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BlackMoria" data-source="post: 4573848" data-attributes="member: 424">If asking him to leave is not a option (yet...), then you need to stop feeding the troll.His sulking or rants is trying to elicit sympathy or some other response and his continuing to sulk and rant means he is getting some payoff from it (such as, if I am not having a good time, no one else will and then everyone's mood is spoiled and he was gotten his payoff).Stop feeding the troll.  If he sulks or rants, everyone ignores him.  No eye contact, no talking to him and certainly, don't let his funk drag down the mood of the group.  In short, ignore the behavior and don't enable it.  If he asks something in game, then respond but if he just vents or complains, look away and talk to the others like he isn't there.If there is no payoff for the behavior, then the behavior should most likely change.</blockquote>