whats a troll or trolling?

[ColdWizard]

a perfect example to help out a newbie...

don't worry, i meant one more post added on to my paltry ~1700




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now, DarlinKell, if sprayber and i were to continue with this discussion of our respective post counts (which i'm sure we won't ), that would be both spamming and threadjacking, for which we might get PCRs and free tickets to Mingapulco.


edit: one more useful term: "pulling a rasputin" = a massive increase in the number of posts (as compared to prior posting behavior) in the Apolyton/Community forum. such behavior can lead to a massive pcr. i think it's time for me to go lurk somewhere

[DarlinKell]

oh so you mean like this post making me a whopping 18?? lol

[Alexander's Horse]

GOD YOU LOT ARE HOPELESS.

A poster shows up who claims to be female and you pathetic bunch of drooling desperates give away every last tribal secret

You are all just sad.

[ColdWizard]

horsie is so unfriendly...

i'm merely trying to be helpful


+1

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
GOD YOU LOT ARE HOPELESS.

A poster shows up who claims to be female and you pathetic bunch of drooling desperates give away every last tribal secret

You are all just sad.

I bet your chat up technique is far better:

"Have you seen the size of my post count?"

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
GOD YOU LOT ARE HOPELESS.

A poster shows up who claims to be female and you pathetic bunch of drooling desperates give away every last tribal secret

You are all just sad.

Come down from your ivory tower some horsie and mingle with the common folk. We aren't that bad.

And trust me she is female.

[Capt Dizle]

I don't see anything wrong with being a troll. A troll is just basically an attempt to get people thinking. Generate thought provoking response.

Most of the people who react negatively to trolls are simply incapable of having a thoughtful response. So, they attack the troll.

By definition, trolls are a higher form of web life. Their prey, the fish, are the lowlifes.

Many of the best discussions are sparked by a troll. One of the reasons the general level of conversation here at POLY is so low is that some of the mods are not intelligent enough to keep their fingers out of the pie. Many a promising thread has been moved or closed before it could develop.

Since you are discussing forum terminology, mods who do that are known as hacks.

[Stefu]

I came up with troll song, although it's based on Log Song from Ren & Stimpy.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Stefu
I came up with troll song, although it's based on Log Song from Ren & Stimpy.

Well come on - out with it

[ixnay]

Originally posted by Stefu
It's troll! Troll! It's big and heavy and brown!
It's troll! Troll! It's antics will cause you to frown!
Everyone hates the troll!
But they still answer it's call!
C'mon and ignore the troll!
Everyone hates the troll!

It's on the first page of this thread...

[Skanky Burns]

One more time for the slow people

[Alynzia]

Hey DarlinKell!

Hey there DarlinKell.

I promise I'm not here to drool over you , but it's really nice to see another lady Apolytoner!

Also, thank you for asking all the questions I've always wondered about. Like the abbreviations and mad 'poly speak.

I do know what a troll is, as has been answered and mis-answered previously. It is someone who comes to a message board with the specfic intention to incite bad feeling among some or all of the readers and posters there.

I once (on another message board) quoted some university research people didn't want to hear and got accused of trolling. I just couldn't bear people ignorantly talking out of their bottoms. Hence I can consider myself a virtuous troll.

Lady Alynzia.

[Dauphin]

Re: Hey DarlinKell!

Originally posted by Alynzia
I once (on another message board) quoted some university research people didn't want to hear and got accused of trolling. I just couldn't bear people ignorantly talking out of their bottoms. Hence I can consider myself a virtuous troll.

Thats not trolling, the intent was to enlighten, not to provoke. A troll is with the implicit intent of creating oppositional frenzies.

A troll would be *cough* creating *cough* using figures in the same manner as MarkL.

[DarlinKell]

all the answers have been helpful....... well maybe the troll song was a little silly, but hehehe ...... cute anyway!!

i just kinda like to know whats going on...... and as for the other thread that got closed........ i didnt mean to misbehave or anything 'Ming'.... i just figured ya never know til ya ask

[Locutus]

Re: Hey DarlinKell!

Originally posted by Alynzia
I once (on another message board) quoted some university research people didn't want to hear and got accused of trolling.

Exactly what I was talking about earlier