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davec
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Hull
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 Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:30 am Post subject: What is a troll?! |
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| Seriously, what is a troll? I just want a nice and concise definition! |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:38 am Post subject: |
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| In Internet terminology, a troll is often someone who comes into an established community such as an online discussion forum, and posts inflammatory, rude, repetitive or offensive messages designed intentionally to annoy or antagonize the existing members or disrupt the flow of discussion, including the personal attack of calling others trolls. Often, trolls assume multiple aliases, or sock puppets. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll
It's somebody who posts stupid sh_t to cause trouble or to instigate others. Anytime there's a thread about banging the natives people say "it's a troll." Also, when someone is being so ignorant it borders on being facetious, there's a good chance a troll is behind it.
For further information, see 63% of the posts on the board. |
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Shadow1
Joined: 16 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:45 am Post subject: |
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| Spinoza is a good example. |
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jessie-b
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:19 am Post subject: |
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| Also, most newbies get labeled as trolls. What a nice welcome! |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:31 am Post subject: |
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| As my students would say --- A troll is a troll. |
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Merlyn
Joined: 08 Dec 2004
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:36 am Post subject: |
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Spinoza is a good example.
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Plastic B
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Daejeon no more
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:41 am Post subject: |
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Trolls live under bridges and eat children, don't they?
When they are not pissing off people on forums that is... |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:29 am Post subject: |
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| Shadow1 wrote: |
| Spinoza is a good example. |
I don't think I would classify Spinoza as a troll. I'd say he's a polemicist (incidentally, the word comes from "polemos" which is the Greek word for war) or hyperbolist.) He exaggerates and provokes, but he doesn't have the devious qualities I associate with a troll. He usually means what he says, on some level.
A troll often conceals their mischievous intent, or says things they truly don't believe, just to watch people dance. |
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n3ptne
Joined: 14 Sep 2005
Location: Poh*A*ng City
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:39 am Post subject: |
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A troll is someone who lives under da bridge and a yooper is someone who lives over it. Duh.
Props to those who know. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:42 am Post subject: |
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Currently the most annoying and insidious troll is Dev.
Balls annoying. |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Okay, so what's a 'sock'? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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A sock is someone who has been on the board under one name and then comes in with a different name. Think of it as a disguise.
Some socks carry on a conversation with their other 'real' self. |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Otis is by far the best example of a troll on these boards. I would have said Bigverne was too, but he seems to have slid off back under his rock. |
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Feloria
Joined: 02 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I can't believe I'm admitting this, but when I first saw the term 'sock' on here used in something like "this guy must be that guy's sock"; I thought it was a derogatory word stemming from well, what some GUYS would do with their 'SOCKS' once they hit puberty. Glad to know it has a different meaning!! |
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ChuckECheese
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Sock = bipolar disorder |
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