EPTI think we just stumbled upon the metagame of trolling.
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Jibba
United States22883 Posts
I think we just stumbled upon the metagame of trolling. + Show Spoiler + | ||
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cemlions
Canada43 Posts
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Lexpar
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On June 11 2010 01:48 cemlions wrote: It seems like the best decision is to ignore trolls completely, and not even aknowledge the good ones. I don't think I understand. Explain? | ||
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MamiyaOtaru
United States1687 Posts
On June 11 2010 00:45 ]343[ wrote: trolling is a coverup for stupidity Often it is so. Everyone has seen this, so I'm not posting the image in the thread, but it makes me laugh. Unrelated: my favorite troll event was the Pokéclipse. Made as a parody of Digiclipse, many people thought it was a sincere site and trolled it, not knowing it was run by trolls. Some of the people who kept doing so even after it was revealed the site wasn't serious were probably trolling by pretending not to know. Some gullible people thought the site was for real (but they might have been trolls). There was speculation that Digiclipse itself was a troll site, and the whole Pokéclipse group got trolled. It was like a giant onion, layers of trolls trolling trolls, and so much more delicious than someone accusing someone he doesn't agree with of being a troll. If you don't feed them they usually go away | ||
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CursOr
United States6335 Posts
Wow. Seriously? A video even? + Show Spoiler + It's got nothing to do with being mean or getting into an argument. It's about getting other people caught up in it and letting them argue. It's 2 different words of Troll. That's the problem. | ||
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QuanticHawk
United States32021 Posts
You're trying to incite e-riots when you troll. If no one gives you a reaction—the single and only purpose of trolling—you have failed, and you must commit seppuku with your keyboard. | ||
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CursOr
United States6335 Posts
You are not a Troll. You are Trolling. Or... you can Troll (as you would Troll waters for fish) but you can not be a fucking "Troll". If you really know what the word means. In fact, up untill this thread, I'd be surprised if I even used that word 3X in over 2000 posts- because its not meant to be a Noun. It's a verb. | ||
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eLiE
Canada1039 Posts
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L0thar
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On June 11 2010 02:42 cursor wrote: The use of the word "Troll" as a noun is actually incorrect. You are not a Troll. You are Trolling. Or... you can Troll (as you would Troll waters for fish) but you can not be a fucking "Troll". If you really know what the word means. In fact, up untill this thread, I'd be surprised if I even used that word 3X in over 2000 posts- because its not meant to be a Noun. It's a verb. I was just gonna ask if "troller" shouldn't be the correct term then... | ||
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koreasilver
9109 Posts
On June 11 2010 02:19 MamiyaOtaru wrote: Often it is so. Everyone has seen this, so I'm not posting the image in the thread, but it makes me laugh. But that isn't really a troll. That's just being a fucking idiot, like I said before. | ||
flamewheel
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Subversive
Australia2229 Posts
On June 11 2010 01:19 Roffles wrote: Oh my lord, yes. Just yes. Ever since that one day I popped in Mystlord's stream and saw everyone using the word meta in every single freaking word, I've been waiting. Make it happen! I thought Chill was already on top of this one? I remember his sig being Do you know what metagame means? Do you really? Or something to that effect. Anyway, agreed. It is horribly misused and just generally over-used. | ||
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elmizzt
United States3309 Posts
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hyst.eric.al
United States2332 Posts
On June 10 2010 23:13 7mk wrote: i miss that article, it was pure gold. it was actually the very first article i ever read on TL haha.Wtf.. I was gonna link to fanatacist's guide to trolling but he edited it and removed the whole thing.. T_T Anyways, fully agree with this, theres way too many examples like seppolevne posted, let the banhammer fly... didnt know about the origin coming from fishing thats funny (and lol at trolling/trawling) i wish i knew what happened to paper and decafchicken and which thread they got their respective bans though | ||
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avilo
United States4100 Posts
On June 11 2010 03:45 elmizzt wrote: Thank you for this, Intrigue. Thank you so much. It's about damn time. Amen. It was getting annoying reading threads and when someone runs out of points to argue or has a differing opinion, you'd see them go, "are you just trolling?" | ||
cgrinker
United States3824 Posts
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Chef
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Subversive
Australia2229 Posts
On June 11 2010 03:50 hyst.eric.al wrote: i miss that article, it was pure gold. it was actually the very first article i ever read on TL haha. i wish i knew what happened to paper and decafchicken and which thread they got their respective bans though You can just go to their profile and check their recent posts... wouldn't take more than a few minutes to find a recent ban. | ||
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seppolevne
Canada1681 Posts
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. | ||
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PokePill
United States1048 Posts
the holy trinity of teamliquid as of 06/10/2010: bonjwa, metagame, and troll Eh you guys can't really say it's a big part of TeamLiquid because you stomp out troll posts pretty fast and close the threads. | ||
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