The Art Of Trolling

What are the best finer points of trolling?

 

OH Jesus H Christ not again

 

Taking Otherwise Intellegent Members For A Ride For A Few Days Before They Realise

There've Been Conned Bigtime And The Troll Is Laughing His Ass Off......



Cheers Glen.

 

Waiting under dark bridges.

 

How can trolls know what to do if we don't give them advice.

 

I remember some sort of article with an OG "troll" talking about what trolling used to mean, back in the day. It was something along the lines of setting out to deliberately fuck with forums and message boards by exploiting loopholes in the posting rules, making your signature enormous or filling it with so much junk that it crashed the site etc. Basically it was a kind of game being played between the admins/mods and the posters who would conspire to mess with them but never technically break any rules.

These days just pretending to hold an opinion that you don't hold to get a rise out of people doesn't have quite the same element of gamesmanship and strategy.

 

From Wikipedia....


Internet troll

"Application of the term troll is subjective. Some readers may characterize a post as trolling, while others may regard the same post as a legitimate contribution to the discussion, even if controversial. Like any pejorative term, it can be used as an ad hominem attack, suggesting a negative motivation.[6]
As noted in an OS News article titled "Why People Troll and How to Stop Them" (25 January 2012), "The traditional definition of trolling includes intent. That is, trolls purposely disrupt forums. This definition is too narrow. Whether someone intends to disrupt a thread or not, the results are the same if they do."



"Psychological characteristics
Researcher Ben Radford wrote about the phenomenon of clowns in history and modern day in his book Bad Clowns and found that bad clowns have evolved into Internet trolls. They do not dress up as traditional clowns but, for their own amusement, they tease and exploit "human foibles" in order to speak the "truth" and gain a reaction. Like clowns in make-up, Internet trolls hide behind "anonymous accounts and fake usernames." In their eyes they are the trickster and are performing for a nameless audience via the Internet.[50]"

 

The best part of trolling or seeing trolling or anything to do with trolling is the fact that they troll and people sit there and read it.

That's the beauty of it, that whole someone can reply with comments to degrade you and put you down etc. at the end of the day they replied to your absolute nonsense and took the time out of their day to do it while they sit there and type out why you have no effect on their life but you kinda did. and the essays some mofos type back like dude I ain't got time to read a reply to something I clearly jibbered down with no sense while I was drunk or stoned. Fuck outta here with that shit.

 

Trolling is repugnant. Seriously.. totally bums me out sometimes.

When someone bumps the crap out of all the ancient sex threads.

 

Trolls pray on the weak minded and feeble. You should treat the weak minded and feeble better than that.

 

I am here to learn the art.

I do not think trolls should be mean spirited. Never hurt the weak minded. that is just cruel

Never hurt anyone, weak or strong imho

 

I think you've got it.

 

I really don't want to hurt anyone and if a troll involves that I want no part of trolling.

I think today it has become mean spirited. I don't like that,

 

gun cuntroll

 

Is soph playing a troll in this thread?

 

i knew you could find it

 

fuck you, you damn canuck. just because you dont have a second amendment dont try to bring the rest of us down to your level....Merica!!!

 

dosnt have the same oomph unless it says "you mad, bro"