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JohnColtrane
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Australia4813 Posts
June 10 2010 10:18 GMT
#21
what is a TA?
HEY MEYT
XiaoJoyce-
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
China2908 Posts
June 10 2010 10:20 GMT
#22
Ah, this is the question I wanted to ask. I mean I have been asking all the time, but nobody can give me the answer. Now I finally understand what is the meaning of trolling keke. Thank.

By the way, what is cute TA?
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eSen1a
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Australia1058 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-10 10:24:01
June 10 2010 10:21 GMT
#23
On June 10 2010 19:15 GrayArea wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 10 2010 19:11 Eiveki wrote:
On June 10 2010 19:00 GrayArea wrote:
I dunno man, I think trolling can be really subtle sometimes (not as clear cut as you make it out to be). Things like 4chan and other similar sites just make people total idiots, and it's like a new phenomena or breed of internet users, who post in "troll-ish" ways.

But like, I know what you are talking about in your post about people saying like "is this a troll post?" for threads that aren't trolling. Some people use the word TOO liberally, but my argument is that the word troll can be used more loosely nowadays.

I see a lot of trolls recently, here is one example (granted the guy did bite, but still, this guy should be banned for doing this):
On June 10 2010 07:04 Lexpar wrote:
On June 10 2010 04:16 zhul4nder wrote:
So...final is at 8am. i slept to 11am. Talked with the prof already and she said the best i can do is take it up the ass. So...what kind of mentality should i have regarding how i will live my life? damn i'm an idiot :[.


I think you mean a idiot.

On June 10 2010 07:17 [NyC]HoBbes wrote:
On June 10 2010 07:04 Lexpar wrote:
On June 10 2010 04:16 zhul4nder wrote:
So...final is at 8am. i slept to 11am. Talked with the prof already and she said the best i can do is take it up the ass. So...what kind of mentality should i have regarding how i will live my life? damn i'm an idiot :[.


I think you mean a idiot.


no, i think he means an idiot

edit: on topic, if you explain to the prof that you slept in because you were sick, you might have better luck getting to take the retest

On June 10 2010 07:56 Lexpar wrote:
On June 10 2010 07:17 [NyC]HoBbes wrote:
On June 10 2010 07:04 Lexpar wrote:
On June 10 2010 04:16 zhul4nder wrote:
So...final is at 8am. i slept to 11am. Talked with the prof already and she said the best i can do is take it up the ass. So...what kind of mentality should i have regarding how i will live my life? damn i'm an idiot :[.


I think you mean a idiot.


no, i think he means an idiot

edit: on topic, if you explain to the prof that you slept in because you were sick, you might have better luck getting to take the retest


No, no. Definitely a idiot.

On June 10 2010 08:07 vlaric wrote:
On June 10 2010 07:56 Lexpar wrote:
On June 10 2010 07:17 [NyC]HoBbes wrote:
On June 10 2010 07:04 Lexpar wrote:
On June 10 2010 04:16 zhul4nder wrote:
So...final is at 8am. i slept to 11am. Talked with the prof already and she said the best i can do is take it up the ass. So...what kind of mentality should i have regarding how i will live my life? damn i'm an idiot :[.


I think you mean a idiot.


no, i think he means an idiot

edit: on topic, if you explain to the prof that you slept in because you were sick, you might have better luck getting to take the retest


No, no. Definitely a idiot.


No, it's an.

I ate an apple
I ate an intense meal.
I ate an orange.

I ate a buffalo.
I ate a kiwi.
I ate a mango.

One chooses the article based upon the phonetic quality of the first letter of the word succeeding the article. If it's a vowel sound one uses an. If it's a consonant sound it's a. When u acts as a yoo sound (union, unity, united, etc.), a is used.

On June 10 2010 08:11 Lexpar wrote:
Yes but he's a idiot.


[image loading]

It was a meme... zzzzzzz.. even more reason to ban. and shame on you for posting that in this thread.


double standards tbh... just look at the NSFW random pics thread, that shit would even get deleted on gotfrag!

edit: also i am quite sure almost everyone knows the definition of troll, but like many overused words it evolves to be used in several circumstances. obvious example is fuck "fuck you, im gonna fuck her, fuck that hurt..." etc except its way more versatile
Lucumo
Profile Joined January 2010
6850 Posts
June 10 2010 10:22 GMT
#24
"Troll" is a basic internet term? I guess I'm on the wrong forums then since this is the only one where I ever read this.
besiger
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
Croatia2452 Posts
June 10 2010 10:30 GMT
#25
i think this is a TA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching_assistant
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24673 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-10 10:32:57
June 10 2010 10:32 GMT
#26
Can I go back and report people's old posts expostfacto for violating this? Especially the ones in my blog where I talked about the abuse of the word 'troll' and they did the same shit lol

For example: intrigue this guy insulted you: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=109143&currentpage=2#30

On June 10 2010 19:30 besiger wrote:
i think this is a TA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching_assistant

Yes this is it.
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JohnColtrane
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Australia4813 Posts
June 10 2010 10:35 GMT
#27
On June 10 2010 19:32 micronesia wrote:
Can I go back and report people's old posts expostfacto for violating this? Especially the ones in my blog where I talked about the abuse of the word 'troll' and they did the same shit lol

For example: intrigue this guy insulted you: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=109143&currentpage=2#30

Show nested quote +
On June 10 2010 19:30 besiger wrote:
i think this is a TA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching_assistant

Yes this is it.


TA is teaching assistant? i was hoping like, Tits n Ass

what a downbuzz
HEY MEYT
ironchef
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Canada1350 Posts
June 10 2010 11:35 GMT
#28
I agree abuse of this(or any) term is annoying. That said, sometimes people online do respond so irrationally that it legitimately crosses your mind if this is a serious argument or someone just getting a rise. Other than that it can also be a metaphorical usage, kind of like "this guy cant be really this dense".

The funny thing is,sometimes its really hard to tell.. need to do like a blind test of moron vs troll haha.I think some people are naturally just provokers consciously or not.
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Energies
Profile Blog Joined September 2003
Australia3225 Posts
June 10 2010 11:39 GMT
#29
I think it might just be a pet peeve for you mate, I honestly didn't think this was a major issue. I believe the word troll is used more often than not as a euphemism, it's easier to call someone a troll not necessarily because of what it means, but it implies that the person is actively trying to be a dick. While calling someone a troll who's actually trolling is pretty much just calling them out for what they are.

At least that's how I use the word, it's not that I think the person is trolling, but I would call them a troll stating that I think their argument is so dumb that it must be a troll.

I hope that kind of made sense, although I could altogether be wrong in my inference.
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FortuneSyn
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
1826 Posts
June 10 2010 11:50 GMT
#30
I'm sick and tired of internet nerds screaming their little whiny pidgeon voices every time someone uses an e-term incorrectly. hurrrr durrrr cheese whine metagame troll durrrr hurrrrr
Ftrunkz
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Australia2474 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-10 11:57:31
June 10 2010 11:56 GMT
#31
On June 10 2010 18:19 Megalisk wrote:
Flash has been a Bonjwa since last year.

User was temp banned for this post.

Man that put a huge banana grin on my face :D

edit: but seriously, now that you point it out, it's kind of funny when someone accuses someone else they're having an argument with of trolling.
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Djin)ftw(
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Germany3357 Posts
June 10 2010 12:02 GMT
#32
On June 10 2010 18:16 intrigue wrote:
please, please please STOP THROWING AROUND THE WORD "TROLL" when you don't understand what it means. most of you reading this who just said to yourselves, "this does not apply to me, i know how to use that word" do not in fact know how to use that word. it makes you look dumb, makes me look dumb, makes our forums look dumb, and thus gradually decreases your chances of mating with cute TAs that you never thought were that cute but then you glimped them with their glasses off accidentally and realized they were actually super hot AND smart but she reads teamliquid and thinks you're dumb because you can't use a basic internet term correctly. that's incentive to read the following:


LOL xD
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stenole
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
Norway868 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-10 12:08:17
June 10 2010 12:07 GMT
#33
I think there are other terms that are misused which causes far more damage than the troll word. When people use the word troll wrong, you usually know in what meaning of the word he meant it. Calling out who is a troll and who isn't seems to be a waste of time though regardless of your grasp of its meaning.

I see way too many discussions where people end up using terms they think they know but it ends up meaning something completely different to other people. Take the term "cheese" in starcraft. Some people also seem to use "balance" in all kinds of crazy ways. Whenever there is a discussion about either of these topics, you always have lots of wasted pages of arguments and disagreements. The core of the discussion often drowns away in people talking past each other instead of to each other. I think whenever you use words that people tend to misinterpret you need to give a clear definition of what the words mean. You end up raising the quality discussion a whole lot. This doesn't have anything to do with the word Troll, but what better place to vomit some off topic opinions than on Intrigue's blog, eh?
Hectic
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Australia159 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-10 12:49:50
June 10 2010 12:10 GMT
#34
I had no idea that 'forum trolls' were such for 'trolling' as in fishing.

I always thought it was troll as in, mythical creature troll (cuz trolls are bad lawl).

I would suggest the reason i used to think this way, is because everyone uses troll as a noun. So if you call someone a troll, you are calling someone a "act of trolling" or referring to the "bait" or "lure" which would make more sense if you were refering the the users post and not the user. But because people use this word to describe the poster it would make no sense to call them a troll? I wonder how many other people have been mislead abbout this word for this reason>?

Someone who trolls would be called an angler or a fisherman.

On the other hand accusing someone of trolling would make sense to me.

Is this reasonable to assume or do I have a mistaken grasp of the word, as in how it should be properly used in the english language?


for those of you who cannot conquer the Analogy Obstacle Course, an internet troll (the ship captain) in his Internet Locomotive Device aka his computer (the boat) will make troll posts (the fishing bait) and watch as his victims are dragged in any direction he chooses.


Why is the ship's captain/ fisherman refered to as a 'troll'? Would it be proper english to call the guy who trolls for fish a 'troll'???

More likely, in proper english the troll should refer to the bait>?

I assume my confusion comes from internet 'troll' being a slang word and a noun, which is why I would get it confused with the most common noun for the word which would be a mythical creature.

I'm also quite surprised that no one else who has posted had the wrong idea about the origin of the term, such as i did.

I don't ever use the word, just a point of interest for me.
Only if you beleive.
Aurdon
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2007 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-10 12:20:36
June 10 2010 12:20 GMT
#35
House is being cleaned because the mod(s) find that the word Troll is being overused? It seems drastic. I love the generous ban hammer methods of TL, but this seems almost tyrannical use of power to scratch someones itch of a pet peeve, and yet...

throughout the entire Rant in the OP, all I could keep thinking is when is this poster ever going to use a capital letter to start a sentence. Interesting that moderation would go so far to boot 'Troll' misusers, but not using such a common rule to sentence structure kind of 'makes you, me, and the site look dumb.'

I'm kind of confused by this new 'policy.'
zatic
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Zurich15325 Posts
June 10 2010 12:26 GMT
#36
On June 10 2010 21:20 Aurdon wrote:
[...] when is this poster ever going to use a capital letter to start a sentence.

That's what I am here for. I am not allowed to ban intrigue though unfortunately.

Apart from that I fully support this initiative!
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Vequeth
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United Kingdom1116 Posts
June 10 2010 12:35 GMT
#37
On June 10 2010 21:20 Aurdon wrote:
throughout the entire Rant in the OP, all I could keep thinking is when is this poster ever going to use a capital letter to start a sentence. Interesting that moderation would go so far to boot 'Troll' misusers, but not using such a common rule to sentence structure kind of 'makes you, me, and the site look dumb.'


So you kinda forgot to capitalize midway through your post, why on earth would 'Rant' then have a capital R?
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teedahtkraizee
Profile Joined June 2010
3 Posts
June 10 2010 12:36 GMT
#38
A troll discussion without me?

Also, who the fuck do you think you are Intrigue? Talking out of your ass and educating these people on what a troll is. Honestly, this kinda article should be left in the hands of someone with a little more experience like Hot_Bid for example.
floor exercise
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Canada5847 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-10 12:45:28
June 10 2010 12:43 GMT
#39
I think that the biggest issue with the false accusation of trolling is that you're giving the poster credit on some level for manipulating you, when the fact of the matter is, you're usually just arguing with a total retard who doesn't know what they are talking about. They aren't baiting you into some inane argument, they really are trying to argue that inane point that doesn't make sense to any reasonable human being.

I find it hard to believe all the idiots on the internet (of which there are many) suddenly turned into genius puppet masters.

In fact I think it actually benefits the retards even more, when they finally do get backed into a corner with their shitty argument, they can just say "lol relax, I was trolling"
Patriot.dlk
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
Sweden5462 Posts
June 10 2010 12:56 GMT
#40
Read and I liked it. The most annoying is when someone is proven wrong or get no backup and turns to "I WAS TROLLING LOLO"

That should be perma ban imo. Btw I hardly ever used the three words now banned. This is the kind of wisdom I possess
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