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Definition:
troll (trol) verb
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.
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For further consideration, the use of the word "troll" as a noun (definition
under contruction):
1. Is a troll someone that doesn't read other's thoughtful replies and then
respond to them in a meaningful way?
2. Is a troll someone that continues to ask questions about issues
anticipated and already addressed?
3. Is a troll someone who argues with an obvious hidden agenda, but then
denies that agenda?
4. Is a troll someone who clearly lacks specific knowledge of the subject
under discussion but pretends otherwise? [Not to be confused with honest
inquiry!]
5. Is a troll someone that misquotes information, or presents information in
a pointedly misleading way?
6. Is a troll someone whose only purposes seem to be to infuriate others
with the obtuseness and ignorance of the troll, and/or to electronically
publish some kind of generally unsupportable propaganda?
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Recommended method of pest control:
If you have been confronted with the presence of a troll, the best approach
is to leave this person talking to him/herself. The debate has been won --
only the troll doesn't know it, nor would s/he ever admit it even if s/he
did. It amuses the troll to see how many ways you can say the same things
and still not make them see reason. The troll is not reasonable, nor does
s/he intend to be. Leaving the troll absolutely alone makes the troll feel
exactly the way you do when you try to reason with the troll.
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Good information and sage advice brought to you by your friendly neighborhood...
-- Hop-Frog
P.S. Who sometimes finds it just as hard as you do to do the right thing.
P.P.S. While he might not have webbing that he can shoot from his wrists, he
does have bulbous sticky toes!
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes: <snip> Good advice but the problem I have is that you can (in this debate) apply that definition to a number of people... some more than others, maybe but we all have preconceived notions, ne? (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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