Chloe Bryan Chloe was the shopping editor at Mashable. She was also previously a culture reporter. You can follow her on Twitter at @chloebryan. Is 'don't feed the trolls' actually good advice? It's complicated. "I have that internalized female niceness where I can't make anyone mad," she said. "I [also] fear men's retaliation and muting will keep 'em quiet, but they'll never know." (Users aren't notified that they've been muted.) "Muting will keep 'em quiet, but they'll never know." Another user, who asked to remain anonymous, said she's noticed several reply guys in her mentions. Unlike Radulovic's reply guy, her reply guys respond to each tweet individually. "It's always regarding the content of [my] tweets, contextual," she said. But it still happens like clockwork. She's also chosen to mute instead of block. None of her reply guys are "consistent harassers," she said. Still, reply guy behavior can escalate quickly -- which is why a lot of women choose not to block the offenders. I once had a reply guy whose comments started off innocuous, then steadily became more frequent -- and more suggestive -- when I stopped liking his replies. Eventually, he also found me on Instagram and Facebook, where he continued to engage with the vast majority of my posts. SEE ALSO: