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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 17:49:54 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Eaton writes:
> > I guess that I just see it as the general suckering into response.
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> And that would be incorrect in my understanding of the word "troll."
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> 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.
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 the term would agree with you.
DaveE
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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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