Apparently, though, a lot of people care (including Dale).Paul wrote:Teri-K wrote:Or, how about "Who the **** cares?"feadogin wrote:How about adding an "I don't care" option?
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Are Jgilder and Irtrad trolling the forum?
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Doug_Tipple
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My grandfather was a great troller from way back. He spent every summer vacation trolling on a lake in Minnesota. I went with him and my grandmother one summer, but I have to admit that I didn't have what it took to be a great troller. I got rather bored, and the bugs were bad.
I know that a troll is a being that lives under bridges, etc. from Scandanavian folk legend. However, what is the definition of a toll with regard to posting on an internet discussion board?
I know that a troll is a being that lives under bridges, etc. from Scandanavian folk legend. However, what is the definition of a toll with regard to posting on an internet discussion board?
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Internet trollDoug_Tipple wrote:I know that a troll is a being that lives under bridges, etc. from Scandanavian folk legend. However, what is the definition of a toll with regard to posting on an internet discussion board?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
In the context of the Internet, a troll is a person who makes inflammatory or hostile comments, which by effect or design cause disruptions in discourse, or a post made by such a person. Trolling can be described as a breaching experiment, which, because of the use of an alternate persona, allows for normal social boundaries and rules of etiquette to be tested or otherwise broken, without serious consequences.
Self-proclaimed "trolls" may style themselves as devil's advocates, gadflies or "culture jammers," challenging the dominant discourse and assumptions of forum discussions in an attempt to break the status quo of groupthink. Critics have claimed that genuine "devil's advocates" generally identify themselves as such out of respect for etiquette and courtesy, while trolls may dismiss etiquette and courtesy altogether.
The contemporary use of the term first appeared on Usenet groups in the early 1990s. It is widely thought to be a diminutive of the phrase "trolling for suckers," itself derived from the sports-fishing technique of trolling.
The word likely gained currency because of its conveniently apt second meaning, drawn from the "trolls" portrayed in Scandinavian folklore and children's tales, which are often ugly, obnoxious creatures bent on wickedness and mischief.
As a pejorative, the term "troll" may also be a slander of opponents in heated debates, a tactic often used by trolls and non-trolls. Many times a person will post a sincere message that they are emotionally sensitive about and trolls know that the biggest way to upset them is to falsely claim that they are a troll. On other occasions a person may not instantly understand or fit into the social norms of a forum where most people are the same - and so acting just slightly out of social norms, often unintentionally, for legitimate reasons gets the poster falsely called a troll. Sometimes when a person just wants to be funny, they are accused of trolling, when that is not their intent. Quite often, trolls have found traditional trolling tactics so overused and commonplace that they have to disguise their trolling to make it effective; and this disguising is largely done recently by falsely accusing anyone they can of being trolls.
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