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Re: trolling? (Was all that OT God stuff)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:27:24 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Eaton writes:
> I guess that I just see it as the general suckering into response.
And that would be incorrect in my understanding of the word "troll."
troll (trol) verb
1. To post a message in a newsgroup or other online conference in the hopes
that somebody else will consider the original message so outrageous that it
demands a heated reply. A classic example of a troll is to post an article
in favor of torturing cats in a pet lovers' newsgroup.
2. (in Scandinavian folklore) any of a race of supernatural beings,
sometimes conceived as giants and sometimes as dwarfs, inhabiting caves or
subterranean dwellings.
There are more, but those are the funny ones...
-- Hop-Frog
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| (...) I suppose if one defined it that way, sure. Perhaps it's my inexperience with outside newsgroups other than Lugnet, but I've more just seen it as a general (non-person-specific) goading into debate. Certainly the connotations associated with (...) (23 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Well, the thing that's wrong with that is the fact that there's nothing *but* connotation there. Being a "bonehead" is sufficiently without good definition, whereas a "troll" post has a definition as well as a connotation. If Jeremy only used (...) (23 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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