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yajvan
04 September 2007, 11:49 PM
Hari Om
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Hello -
I must be the pea brain in the bunch here because I do not understand this concept. What is Trolling? It is perceived as bad from what I sense. Why so?

any help is welcomed.

thank you

sm78
05 September 2007, 01:01 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28internet%29



An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_slang), has come to mean someone who intentionally posts messages about sensitive topics constructed to cause controversy in an online community such as an online discussion forum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum) or USENET (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USENET) groups in order to bait users into responding.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28internet%29#_note-0) They may also plant images and data on networks that others may find disturbing in order to cause confrontation. They often change screen names or acquire multiple screen names to cause confusion and gain credibility by agreeing with themselves in forum debates.
More specifically a troll is an insult or accusation made against a poster. It would be highly unusual for any internet poster to claim the title of troll[citation needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources)], rather a community member may sometimes try to deflate a post that is controversial or thought provoking by referring to it as "trolling". Properly, to call someone a troll is to say that any dispute over a post is not valid not because the issues raised are not valid, but to claim the intent of the poster invalidates the post. As a speech act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_act) the term troll is sometimes used as an ad hominem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem) argument, attacking the poster rather than the content or issues of the post.

satay
05 September 2007, 12:40 PM
Namaste,
For all practical purposes, here on HDF, trolling is defined as follows:

'An act of derailing a thread or threads by making irrelevant posts that are not related to or are not in response to the original post i.e. OP.'

A thread is considered trolled or derailed if a poster keeps making posts (knowingly or not) that take the discussion on a tangent.

yajvan
05 September 2007, 02:48 PM
Hari Om
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Ahhh Ha!!!

So from Singhi's post - it is those that choose calumny or obloquies.

And from satay, it is pure mischief making...

Both overlap.

I got it...