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What Is A Troll?


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A troll posts deliberately inciteful or inflammatory nonsense, often made up stories, in order to goad people into a response.

The dippy kid in the back of the class making fart noises while the teacher's back is turned is a good example.

In Internet terminology, a troll is a person who enters an established community such as an online discussion forum and intentionally tries to cause disruption, often in the form of posting messages that are inflammatory, insulting, incorrect, inaccurate, absurd, or off-topic, with the intent of provoking a reaction from others. (Wikipedia)

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A troll posts deliberately inciteful or inflammatory nonsense, often made up stories, in order to goad people into a response.

The dippy kid in the back of the class making fart noises while the teacher's back is turned is a good example.

In Internet terminology, a troll is a person who enters an established community such as an online discussion forum and intentionally tries to cause disruption, often in the form of posting messages that are inflammatory, insulting, incorrect, inaccurate, absurd, or off-topic, with the intent of provoking a reaction from others. (Wikipedia)

Thanks cdnvic. Got it.

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Well there's Trolls then there's Troll's. Some people seem to turn this into an artform where they get a major thread running generally based on a made up story or daft opinions. A couple of examples IMNSHO -

Why Does Thailand Have Crap Food

Attacked with a Cleaver

Both by the same poster who puts a bit of intelligence into his work.

At the other end of the intelligence scale we have the straightforward Troll.

Blackmailing a Mate

I won't reference any of Boon Mee's threads as they are in Bedlam. :o

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