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wifebeater
Profile Joined January 2008
178 Posts
January 02 2010 22:12 GMT
#41
Are there any trolls from Romania?
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Asjo
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
Denmark664 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-02 22:29:03
January 02 2010 22:27 GMT
#42
It's interesting; becuase it was used as a noun, I always thought that when people were called trolls this actually referred to the noun troll, those big ugly guys with clubs. Upon seeing this topic, I felt curious and looked it up on Wikipedia, and apparantly the word is drived from "trolling", which would be when a boat, a troller, lays out it's net, catching whatever might swim into it. The metaphor makes sense, in some sense, I guess, I had just always had the image of trolls hiding under a brigde, the dark and scare reality behind something seemingly innocent, and have made this fit with my image of an "internet troll".

As with any word that is overused, micronesia probably has a point that it has now lost some of its original (well, popular original) meaning. It's not a surprise it has been used so much. Trolling has been detrimental to many online communities, ruining their integrity. I remember back on the forums of wcreplays.com when people were starting to become more aware of the problem and were calling "troll" more and more. One reason being, of course, that they wanted to expose and expel the insencere posters, but more so it was due to them feeling insecure, no longer wanting to trust others and just let go. I'm sure that today people have become more desensitized to it, but the word has become popularised and is just more and more just as a way of adding to humourous meta-conversation.

It's true that trolls would not normally give themselves away. If trolling is to be useful as a word, you must distinguish clearly between between it and other similar things. Regardless of the actual intention of the poster, example 1 wouldn't be elaborate enough to be counted as a troll. As said earlier in this thread, trolling would be someone putting great effort into eleciting a deep emotional response (hence political topics), normally through provocation. The joy would often comes from the fun of making other people expose themselves completely. Acting stupid would normally not be enough for this, you have to push some more buttons to get to that point. If people were just being stupid, the "victims" would just have wasted some of their time, and I guess this isn't any great fear of forum-goers, and therefore this wouldn't see any need for calling out a "troll". If they had become emotionally involved, however, they will have wasted this energy and involvement, for, essentially, nothing, leaving a void, withdrawal or dissapointment. This is where it becomes necessary to call out the troll. However, as said, more people have become densensitized to this, and for many communities similar banter has become a part of the normal conversation. Maybe for that reason, trolls don't get as much of a kick out of the serious topics anymore, and we generally see more people devoted to a milder form of "trolling", hence why the perception of the word will have changed.
I am not sure what to say
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24676 Posts
January 02 2010 22:34 GMT
#43
On January 03 2010 07:01 H wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 03 2010 06:42 Avidkeystamper wrote:
This is stupid,;. what kind of pompous ***tard would try and analyze trolling?


micronesia

You do realize he was trolling, right?
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
MiniRoman
Profile Blog Joined September 2003
Canada3953 Posts
January 02 2010 22:43 GMT
#44
Lotta retards on the internet, tl included. (Not a troll)
Nak Allstar.
niteReloaded
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Croatia5281 Posts
January 02 2010 22:49 GMT
#45
I don't give a shit about this particular issue, and fail to see how anyone could.
SanguineToss
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada815 Posts
January 02 2010 22:52 GMT
#46
On January 03 2010 07:49 niteReloaded wrote:
I don't give a shit about this particular issue, and fail to see how anyone could.


lol nub troll
ghrur
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States3786 Posts
January 02 2010 23:29 GMT
#47
Hmm, yes I concur
darkness overpowering
SpiritoftheTunA
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States20903 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-02 23:39:01
January 02 2010 23:38 GMT
#48
http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=83833
posting on liquid sites in current year
SanguineToss
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada815 Posts
January 02 2010 23:38 GMT
#49
after reading this thread i think every post is a troll rofl !
freelander
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
Hungary4707 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-02 23:44:55
January 02 2010 23:44 GMT
#50
can reality be trolled?

edit
I mean real life
And all is illuminated.
Asjo
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
Denmark664 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-02 23:46:13
January 02 2010 23:45 GMT
#51
On January 03 2010 08:44 freelander wrote:
can reality be trolled?

edit
I mean real life


You seem confused about things. Us posting here on these forums is a part of reality

Edit: Damn, sneaky edit, even got in the quote. And it's a part of real life as well.
I am not sure what to say
Fzero
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States1503 Posts
January 02 2010 23:58 GMT
#52
[image loading]

Trolls are my sworn enemy.
Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
BanZu
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States3329 Posts
January 03 2010 00:12 GMT
#53
Word. Just because you don't agree with someone does not mean that they are a troll. -_-
Sun Tzu once said, "Defiler becomes useless at the presences of a vessel."
DivinO
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States4796 Posts
January 03 2010 00:58 GMT
#54
5/5, nice guide.
LiquipediaBrain in my filth.
Loanshark
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
China3094 Posts
January 03 2010 01:03 GMT
#55
It's already been done on TL.
No dough, no go. And no mercy.
MountainDewJunkie
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States10341 Posts
January 03 2010 01:27 GMT
#56
Trolls are easy to spot. But there are some posters that are just completely hopeless in terms of intelligence that are often mistook as trolls. This is not the case.
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Kau *
Profile Joined March 2007
Canada3500 Posts
February 05 2015 15:42 GMT
#57
Saw this article today and was reminded of this blog.

The debate over so-called internet trolls - people who use social media accounts to abuse others - has been attracting headlines for several years now.
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Endymion
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States3701 Posts
February 05 2015 19:11 GMT
#58
was ugottask8 a troll??? i don't even know =[

Have you considered the MMO-Champion forum? You are just as irrational and delusional with the right portion of nostalgic populism. By the way: The old Brood War was absolutely unplayable
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