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09-23-2008, 01:51 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Florida
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Trolls?
I've heard people talking about them on the site and I'd like to know what the term means. Can anyone help me?
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09-23-2008, 01:54 PM
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#2
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Earth.
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A troll is someone who's here out of malice or boredom, usually boredom, who gets kicks out of being annoying or mean.
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09-23-2008, 01:56 PM
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#3
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Iceland
Posts: 48
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MegearaErotica
I've heard people talking about them on the site and I'd like to know what the term means. Can anyone help me?
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I conqur. (Excuse my spelling). I'd also like to know since people been calling other people trolls, and I'm not sure if someone recently called me one, so I didn't say anything, so I wasn't sure if I should defend myself or not.
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09-23-2008, 02:01 PM
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#4
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,065
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia
A troll is someone who's here out of malice or boredom, usually boredom, who gets kicks out of being annoying or mean.
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Oh, thank you. I don't think anyone calld me that, I just saw someone else get called that and I got curious.
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09-23-2008, 02:01 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Posts: 1,888
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Originally Posted by LadyFilth
I conqur. (Excuse my spelling). I'd also like to know since people been calling other people trolls, and I'm not sure if someone recently called me one, so I didn't say anything, so I wasn't sure if I should defend myself or not.
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Protesting usually won't help. Just try to remember to keep your overall post quality decent (I say TRY because everyone has bad days) and you should be okay.
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09-23-2008, 02:14 PM
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#6
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 108
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I believe the term comes from the *chans.
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09-23-2008, 02:18 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Auckland
Posts: 627
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lucylucy
I believe the term comes from the *chans.
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Trolling existed before the chans.
From wikipedia:
The contemporary use of the term first appeared on Usenet groups in the late 1980s. It is thought to be a truncation of the phrase trolling for suckers, itself derived from the fishing technique known as trolling.[3] The word likely gained currency because of its apt second meaning, drawn from the trolls portrayed in Scandinavian folklore and children's tales; they are often ugly, obnoxious creatures bent on mischief and wickedness.
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09-23-2008, 02:21 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Iceland
Posts: 48
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Breathless Horror
Protesting usually won't help. Just try to remember to keep your overall post quality decent (I say TRY because everyone has bad days) and you should be okay.
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What do you mean? Am I posting too much, that it looks like spam?
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09-23-2008, 03:51 PM
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#9
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Lost City of Atlanta
Posts: 326
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Trolls aren't the same as spammers really. Spammers just post adverts, links, etc. to an annoying degree. Trolls are more malicious. They try to get people riled up and/or try to generate in-fighting and drama for amusement. It's also similar to how teenagers that are immature or drunken men will harass and heckle people to look good in front of their buddies. In that vein, many trolls will copy and paste the results of their trolling to forums and other websites (such as Something Awful, Encyclopedia Dramatica, or 4 chan) to gain popularity.
For example, this yuppie guy I didn't even know randomly messaged me on myspace the other day with the words "i hope u die you pathetic excuse of a failure in society." and "take ur Edgar Allen Poe books dip them in kerosene light them on fire and stick them in your ass to burn your insides and end your life." in an attempt to get a rise out of me.
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09-23-2008, 04:00 PM
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#10
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,687
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Originally Posted by Mealla
(such as Something Awful, Encyclopedia Dramatica, or 4 chan) to gain popularity.
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Like 4chan cares about trolling gothic.net. We just trolled the shit out of Oprah.
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09-23-2008, 04:02 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Lost City of Atlanta
Posts: 326
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Didn't say they cared about gothic.net. Was just referring to the fact that they do troll.
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09-23-2008, 04:09 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Lost City of Atlanta
Posts: 326
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P.S. Didn't see the Oprah bit, but I did really like what anonymous did with Scientology.
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09-23-2008, 07:41 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Humboldt, CA
Posts: 143
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Don't argue with them and don't respond in kind. You can banish them with the ignore selection.
Can anyone read this?
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09-23-2008, 11:27 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Cali
Posts: 8,030
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mealla
P.S. Didn't see the Oprah bit, but I did really like what anonymous did with Scientology.
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They got her to say "over 9000 penises" on her show, fun was had by all
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09-25-2008, 07:42 PM
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#15
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Sugar Hill
Posts: 3,887
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An explanation of Trolling
A More in-depth explanation.
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09-25-2008, 08:17 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Sugar Hill
Posts: 3,887
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Note: Watch out for the pop-up ad at the bottom right hand corner of the screen on my second link. I've never seen that before and ED might have been hacked. It looks suspiciously like a pop up which gave me a virus a few weeks ago, so don't click it, and don't try to close it.
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09-26-2008, 09:33 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: England, South Glos, Bristol
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Originally Posted by Despanan
Note: Watch out for the pop-up ad at the bottom right hand corner of the screen on my second link. I've never seen that before and ED might have been hacked. It looks suspiciously like a pop up which gave me a virus a few weeks ago, so don't click it, and don't try to close it.
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But it has a half naked lady on it D:
WE MUST CLICK IT
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