Trolling explained
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by Alphabethis
Trolling explained
What's trolling ? It's an overreaction to an idea or person we don't like.
When does it happen? When the idea arises , or simply , when the person performs any 'public' action.
Who makes it ? There're many kind of trolls:
a) sub-teenager troll, typically very active and flaming, uncontrollaby aggresive sometimes.
b) teenager troll, less noisy than sub-teenager but with a higher load of aggresivitiy.
c) early twenties troll, it's a bit more ellaborate in his trolling, calmed but hard and merciless.
d) thirties (and older ) troll, the trolling tends to become an art and it's subtle and almost an art. It's seldom aggresive and sometimes just delightful and witful. It focus the less on the person, more on the ideas.
What's trolling for ?
a) Reaffirmation of identity, political or personal.
b) Unsuitable or not perfectioned political propaganda.
c) Simple personal hate. ( sad but true) .
d) Humoristic rethorical exercise.
Will trolling ever end ?
No, obviously not, for the reasons stated above.
Where Does trolling happen?
Forums, IRC, PM's, generally speaking, the closer an environment is the bitter trolling we can expect. Open environments let trolls exposed at everybody's eyes. Openness is a good thing to stop trolling. Denouncing or reporting are good ideas.
Are you a troll ?
Just review the clasiffications above.
Is criticism trolling ?
It depends on the intention, more than in the simple content of the message.
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newbies should read this and learn from a master
fairly correct definition is the 2nd in urban dictionary
"trolling requires decieving, any trolling that doesn't involve decieving someone isn't trolling at all ... your victim must not know that you are trolling ..."
What's trolling ? It's an overreaction to an idea or person we don't like.
Sorry to tell you alpha but trolling is not over reacting to someone, funny thing thats called Over reacting.
Trolling is when you show discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community either accidentally or mostly with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion
So as you have been asked many many time before, Please learn the fuck what your talking about or dont bother
a spammer is not a troll.
Ok another free English lesson to the spainard
" Spamming is the act if obnoxiously doing something repeatedly for attention or in order to disturb others. "
A bit like you articles if im to be honest
My articles are not an obnoxius repitition, they're different.
could have fooled me...
I wanted to stress the concept of "over- reaction", since you can get the same objectives with "less noise" and "less effort" . Troll is more than an absolute "quantity" a "relative" quality. It's not about how big or nasty the thing you do, but about how nasty or big in relation to the things you usually say .
wait, what happen if i troll you, but i deceive some words. so you don't know that you are being trolled? 😃
teenager troll signing in
This is just wrong and bad.
it's just accurate as always.
you mean: "as accurate as always"
It's just accurate, as always.
LOL. So wrong.
WHERE ARE MY BATTLES ORDERS DAMN IT
"What's trolling for ?"
1) to bully people.
2) to get a lot of fun. 😛
3) your life won't be boring.
Hehe, Alpha wrote a whole article about trolling and you summed it up in 4 lines xD
I was going to say that your definition of trolling was inaccurate,
Then realised that according to your definition I was trolling.
I had problems with pretty much every answer you listed. Let me answer those same questions you have asked.
What's trolling? Committing an act that will get a rise out of someone. In other words to anger someone for your own pleasure.
When does it happen? Constantly. It is like gravity or death.
Who makes it? (This was an oddly phrased question by the way) EVERYONE. Everyone you have ever met, and all of those you haven't, have trolled, will troll or are trolling you right now! Most likely the last of those three.
What's trolling for? What is trolling not for should be the question. Feeling bad about yourself? Troll someone and you will feel better. Feeling good about yourself? Troll someone and you will feel even greater. Hungry? Troll someone until they feed you themselves. Want to get laid? Troll someones ex. Almost always works. You can use trolling to get everything you want/need or even think would be nifty to have.
Will trolling ever end? Only when it closes due to AIDS.
Where does trolling happen? Again the wrong question to ask. Where doesn't trolling happen? Only in the hearts of black holes.
Are you a troll? EVERYONE is a troll. Read above.
Is criticism trolling? Depends on intent. See if I criticize my ex with the intention of getting her to punch a wall when I walk away then yes. If I criticize a movie because the plot sucked or what have you then the answer is no. Unless I criticize it in front of a rabid fan of said movie (like purposefully mocking the Twilight series in front of a 14 year old girl).
Pool's closed. 😛
Yeah. Those were the days. Having an afro, wearing a suit, being black. Just standing there saying,"Pool's closed. Sorry it's the AIDS. Actually it was the sharks but they had the AIDS. But don't worry. The sharks are dead. Now it is just THE AIDS. So the pool is closed due to AIDS. The AIDS." Now that was a fun troll. Or the fast food papers that you put up on the drive thru. I still do that one every now and then.
"Hungry? Troll someone until they feed you themselves."
Hungry? become a troll and let them feed you!
(sound like an ad for some nice job)
Alpha, trolling is about trolls who troll other trolls in a trolling way. It happens because trolls enjoy trolling, some trolls even troll in response to the trolling of other trolls. Especially here in the United Troll Kingdom 🙂
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Trolling is an artform you or wikipedia do not understand...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JUPzN7tp7bQ&t=244
What's trolling ? It's an overreaction to an idea or person we don't like.
trolling is an idea
a troller is a person
you are overreacting to them
and you don't seem to like them
so your article is trolling by your own definition