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# Slack Tip #1: Dealing With Workspace Trolls
- URL: https://www.philsimon.com/slack-trolls/
- Published: 2020-05-12T12:56:23.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-02T20:29:01.000Z
- Description: Two tools for handling jackasses, knuckleheads, nimrods, dolts, and idiots.
- Author: Phil Simon
- Tags: Collaboration, Communication, Productivity, Slack, Slack For Dummies, The Big Lebowski, Video, WFH

Normally, people behave in a professional manner while using Slack and other collaboration tool.

The operative word in the last sentence is *normally*.

Sometimes individual behave like jackasses.

Fortunately, Slack provides a number of useful tools for handling idiots.

In this quick video I show you a few options for dealing with knuckleheads and blowhards: muting and exiling them from your workspace altogether.

Slack on.